Wry WRY: What I Think About Whenever Someone Mentions the New York Times
I was lucky enough to be stuck in a waiting room for a few hours with a New York Times on Monday. I was getting the Mrs.' car windows tinted. After doing many things to avoid the Times, I ran out of gambits (writing poetry, making lists of things to do, going for a walk for an hour) and glanced it over.
And found this, after a few seconds.
In the USA, only the New York Times* could sincerely publish this leading Style section article, copiously illustrated, and not hear the laughter behind their heads:
Nope! No pretense there! No siree! Whenever I think of "all masculine" ways of wearing my coat, the first thing I think of is wearing it like a cape over my bared, shaved chest with one button done.
I know; I know. It makes me look like a rube when I mock such things. I admit it.
* Maybe the L.A. Times as well, but only because they are the N. Y. Times' lap-puppy, always whining and panting to catch up.
Great googily moogily. I've seen camisoles more masculine than those guys.
(my first choice of woman's undergarments for that sentence was discarded because I wasn't sure if 'crotchless' should be hyphenated)
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Hee hee! if you had read this at the beginning of your wait, it would have been one of those situations where you find yourself going for a walk and trying hard to keep from bursting into insane laughter in front of total strangers. I don't know why it would seem like insane laughter, but it always does. If the cause of laughter isn't obvious and shared. If I stifle laughter it always finds a way out somewhere even more inappropriate. Better to let it go.
Anyway, sorry for the tangent. Have been moving house, and away from the internetz, and so have a week's worth of tangent-posting to catch up on. :o)
Most of the blokes in the background look deeply ambivalent to the glut of manly apparel on show. I am a little disappointed, as this suggests that sales of the 'wraparound-cardigan sans shirt' jacket will be sparse, and I won't have an excuse for laughing in the street anytime soon.
Thanks for this!
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As long as there is "high fashion," Rowan, there will be snark on both sides of the run-way. Sad but true.
Happy to have you settled in, or at least beginning to settle in, to your new digs.
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Makes me a-wantin' to go out 'n get me one right now! Can Wry imagine Lax in one of those things?
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you'd look FA-ABULOUSSS!!!
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