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[jaydub]

Its amusing to me to see childhood pictures of myself, deeply tanned from playing outside constantly and with long days at the beach without sunscreen.  My family used to joke that we knew summer had arrived when my brother and I had gotten our first blistering burn of the year.  When I moved back to the US as an 11 year old, I fit right into the majority Mexican school (until I spoke anyway). This has, naturally, completely wrecked my skin as an adult.  My skin doesn't exactly "tan" anymore - it turns an angry uneven reddish that fades into moderate freckling. I have liver spots, depigmented patches, hyperpigmented patches, and enough moles to keep the dermatologist in sportscars for the foreseeable future.  Literally, my Dermo takes annual pictures of my hide so we can spot any changes to my collection.  I've had 7 removed so far because they had suspicious features.  I keep an eye on the UV forecast now, and wear brimmed hats and sunscreen when it gets above 3 if I plan on spending any time outdoors.  Last Saturday I missed a spot just below my throat and have a weird arrowhead shaped burn from the unbuttoned polo shirt I was wearing while coaching for 5 1/2 hours on a cloudless day.

[doomglobe]

I didn't know about those. Can you.

[jay-ell]

I use those on my kids faces. For the rest of their bodies, I chase them with a can of the spray-on kind.

I use the spray-on kind myself (when Pedro reminds me to wear it). And I just bought myself a floppy sun hat, which I will probably also forget to wear.

[jaydub]

Those new sunscreen sticks that are like glue stick sized for your face and ears and such?

I am on that like white on rice!

[jay-ell]

Flashbacks to my senior prom...Pedro wore brown shoes and white socks with a black tux!

[Arachno-capitalist]

TIG...look down at my black shirt, continue on to my black jeans and then try to figure out how some brown shoes got on my feet.

Holy shit, I didn't even match the belt to the shoes.

Are you going to a biker funeral?

[doomglobe]

This is what I wore all day sunday. I literally untied and took my long-sleeved-shorts and a shirt layer off at the first belay ledge because I was so hot (it had been nearly freezing at night).

[side_show]

Ever heard of Rainbow Valley

The Everest one, right?

I'm sure your dignity will bounce back eventually, sMells.

[theinevitable]

I have developed a palette of standard clothes colors that i look good in. I know I am bad at matching colors, so I just limited myself to only buying clothes that go together. Black was eliminated. I wear enough of that junk at work.

[CortJstr]

Today I'm gonna come home to find this framed and hanging in the den/game room.

[jay-ell]

Wow, already? Good work, dude.

I have developed a palette of standard clothes colors that i look good in. I know I am bad at matching colors, so I just limited myself to only buying clothes that go together. Black was eliminated. I wear enough of that junk at work.

I only wear blue, black, or brown on the bottom half -- jeans, dress #####, skirts, shoes, belts, handbags, etc. (Notable exceptions: chuck taylors may be any color, and my running shoes have pink on them, which was unavoidable.) So no matter what shirts I buy, I always have some neutral bottom to wear it with. I tend to go with bright or bold colors on top, though I have a fair number of black t-shirts because that tends to be the color they print video game logos on.

Pedro has it narrowed down even further. He only has two colors of dress #####: chocolate brown and khaki. He wears t-shirts with jeans on weekends, but his dress shirts are all selected so that they look equally good with either brown (for fall and winter) or khaki (for spring and summer) and he wears a button-down (no tie) and dress ##### every day to work. He only has brown belts, brown shoes, and brown or khaki socks. Because he's partially colorblind, it's not even an issue of not having fashion sense -- he literally cannot tell the difference between black and navy, or between a shirt that is blue and one that is purple. He has one burgundy shirt, and it took me weeks to convince him that it's not black. I thought it was silly at first, but the dude looks good all the time, and it takes very little effort and the only time he asks for my help is when he's buying new clothes or when he needs to wear a tie.

[Arachno-capitalist]

Dressing yourself for the day shouldn't require a lot of effort. I'm pretty aware of my clothing inventory and generally know what I wore this week so as to avoid repeats. I never thought about it, but most of my not-work shirts are blue or green and my ##### are either jeans or khaki colored shorts. On the other end of the spectrum you have this one guy I used to live with who turned a spare room into his walk-in closet/clothes changing room. On the rental insurance he itemized only his clothing and accessories and just disregarded everything else (TV/computer/furniture/etc) because he could always go buy a new computer, but it would be impossible to recreate his clothes collection. Basically I lived with Tom from Parks and Rec.

[jay-ell]

Basically I lived with Tom from Parks and Rec.

I get that some dudes are like this, and that a lot of them are even straight, but to me that is really a turn-off. I see the appeal of a sharp dressed man, but if I get the sense that a dude spends more time picking out his clothes in the morning than I do, it just screams "DOUCHEBAG."

We all have our prejudices, I suppose.

[theinevitable]

that's OK, I'm sure they don't think too highly of adults who wear video game t-shirts.

The other day I bought a band t-shirt for the first time in a while. It felt good.

[Choop]

wow my effort to channel this chat into the proper thread just DID NOT TAKE