Silly Bandz — the non-circle-shaped variants on the old rubber-bracelet theme that clog up the checkout counters at your local drugstore and get serially banned by concerned elementary-school principals — are now a hit among adults, according to Thursday Styles! Hats off to this trendlet piece's author, Kayleen Schaefer, who is so devoted to her Styles-reporting craft that she found someone who wears the brightly colored, 20.6-cent scraps (shaped like "a palm tree, the number 3 and a monkey") on the same wrist as her Rolex. [Pic via]
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
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I wore one at the gay pride parade that was in the shape of a dragon. I got drunk and broke it. :(:(:(
I like that you chose three unhappy emoticons to portray the true sentiment behind your comment. You sir, are doing it right.
My problem is that if you look at the center it looks like two backwards smileys.
*actually I think that earns you extra fierce-points, from a fellow drunk's point of view
Fitting. I have only seen fags wearing these. Possibly because the only place I've seen them for sale is in every bodega and Duane Reade in Chelsea.
The women all wear them to elegant, high-stakes tetherball games.
Sexxxxxxy.
dibs on all the MILFs of the butterfly team, should they whip/spike the dinosaurs down to size.
Big whoop. I still play with my super elastic bubble plastic.
"I'll trade you this cerulean hedgehog for that watch"?
capitalist
ok, -fine-, I didn't like this watch anyway-
At my pool there's a very, very sad note (in little kids handwriting) saying that a box with 31 Silly Bandz has been lost in the locker room and please return it to the front desk PLEASE.
Also, not just for little girls! Two little boys were in the locker room shower the other day, occupying much of the floor of said shower by spreading their Silly Bandz collection out, while showering, for some reason. (Also kids THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE 31 SILLY BANDZ BY THE WAY.)
The boys aren't big on the mystical fairy collection, though, I notice.
Mr. Bry had a very nice, non-apologetic piece on this topic yesterday.
holding up her wrist, which was draped in Silly Bandz the way girls wore those black rubber Madonna bangles in 1985.
And that's all you need to know about this trendlet. Moving on.
Since this hilarious topic was being flogged to death by the local news stations, I knew I could count on AwlPeople to deliver an op-ed on this sooner or later. It's sweet and warms my ice-cold heart for just a sec. Almost makes me yearn to add to the population, if it weren't for financial realities/underemployment/oil spills/terrible political upheavals/cats as surrogate children/etc/etc.
Hey, thanks, Setec Astrology! And Clarence and Yucko, too!
Um, I don't know if you are a boy or a girl, but I have a big crush on you just based on your username. That is all.
A Rolex is always such a nice little touch of creative subtlety.
Oh lord, I work for a retail company and these things are my current bete noire at work - our owner wants them in the stores yesterday, but they are backordered for the next million years or so. Thanks NYTimes, you are MAKING IT WORSE.
My company's the creative for ZANYBANDZ (2 Z's trumps ALL.) Everyone involved knows it's going to die soon. They are the best client ever. Please enjoy earnestly. Ironically. INTHISECONOMYWHOFUCKINGCARES-ly.
Oh my god you guys, remember when it was a thing to wear plastic pacifiers around your neck!? This is so much more palatable.
You're not setting the bar very high.