Here is the world's worst holiday gift guide, from the Washington Post. Bubble bath! Mediocre wingtips! (Here's a hint: if you're going to spend more $550 on wingtips for men, then you can afford to go to John Lobb and get proper ones.) And? Says one gift-giver: "My female friends are getting amazingly colorful one-size-fits-all muumuus I found in Bali." That is from boutique-owner Christopher Reiter, who is going to have zero female friends as of December 26th.
Monday, November 23, 2009
26
Oops. I ordered "emus" by mistake.
Instead of:
Here's a hint: if you're going to spend more $550 on wingtips for men, then you can afford to go to John Lobb and get proper ones.
I think you mean:
Here's a hint: if you're goign to spend $550 on wingtips for men, just give them cash, they'll appreciate it more.
You clearly don't own any good shoes besides those "sneakers" that you hip kids without office jobs like so much.
Expensive loafers instead of wingtips?
Listen and learn, son.
Someone needs to buy Christopher Reiter some new shoes.
You know what the real problem with the muumuu is? The name is a homophone for the bovine sound that the wearer typically doesn't want associated with her appearance.
If it was called a "fifi" or something, people would probably have a lot less of a problem with it.
I'm sari.
It's ok. You don't have toga around apologizing all the time.
That sarong way to look at it, anyway.
"Caftan"...wait, skin cancer. This is a problem.
Yes. The "chemo-no" has the same problem.
[Shelly] Winter Wrap
Ahem. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fifi
Alden cordovan wingtips are by no means mediocre. They're handmade and will last forever.
Agreed--Aldens are legit.
Double agreed. They will put the overpriced, LVMH-owned(?) John Lobbs to shame for less than half the price. The cordovans will also age better than a calfskin shoe by _any_ maker.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Roll dyed zebra print flammable is FUNNY. Is that hardware or embroidery? Either way it's hysterical. I don't resent this. Oh and I would LOVE if it was called a fifi because then the old lady wearing it would talk in babytalk and that's SO GROSS.
I would wear the fuck out of that thing on my yacht.
If I had a yacht.
I was about to object, on the grounds that the tomato plant and the grill pan are useful indeed, when I realized that usefulness at the expense of all other virtues is exactly the problem -- like giving a set of knives to your mother on her birthday.
Funny, my first thought on seeing the tomato plant was, "Fuck, another useless thing I'd have to take care of and find surface space for."
Does that muumuu come with a gift certificate for the holder to get liver spots spray tanned on? It should.
Why do the guys get wine instead of caftans?
To make the muumuus look attractive.
Prolly more for when they come off and they see what the muu muu was covering up.
Also, don't knock Molton Brown, Choire!