Hoodies - for gentlemen over 30

[MrBen]

Despite being in good shape and aiming for something good quality (sans logo) I've been told I'm not allowed on the basis that I'm a 35 year old middle class businessman and would look like a twat.

Right or wrong? Or does it depend?

[Brendan]

The only problem I see is that you appear to care what other people think.

Fuckem!

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I hear they are very effective at hiding the bald patch. Go for it.

[Marmora Man]

sartorial standards are important. Over the age of 30 every man should have a tweed suit, brogues, waistcoat and hat available for those casual evenings sipping a half a shandy on the terrace.

[Annette Curtain]

As they say " You can't polish a turd "

That you could be a hoodie wearing turd makes no difference.

On the other hand, you could be a rough diamond but I doubt it.

Nette;-)

[Frankito]

Complete nonsense, get out there and treat yourself man. I wear them all the time, depending on the weather, and anyone who says I shouldn't can simply do one!

[Alan Medic]

This isn't your 'if I can't beat them, join them' effort is it?

[Frankito]

Gosh, how did you manage/ choose to read that from my last statement.... ? Is one having a bad day?

[Alan Medic]

If you are referring to my post Frankito, I wasn't referring to yours but the OP.

[Frankito]

Sorry sir, my mistake.

[maxxi]

If you feel like a @#$%& wearing one then you will look like a @#$%&. This is true of most items of apparel and why some people seem to be able to carry off a look others can't, it's because they don't feel like a @#$%&. So try it on and ask yourself how you feel.

[MrBen]

Hey...like I'd feel cool in it man. Liberated and relaxed yet somehow fitter.

Imagine a lithe, off duty corporate ninja and you'll get the picture.

If only my fair lady agreed. She took one look and simply said "dress your age".

But then if pushed, I feel much the same way about 40-something women with bad legs wearing denim mini skirts.

[nashoi]

Absolutely fine, unless you're planning on wearing your new hoodie on a snowboarding/skateboarding trip with your hood covering your shaggy Shaun White hairdo. Just make sure you're wearing a belt and your jeans are covering your arse.

[Huguenot]

I would neverthless be wary of responding to your fair lady's challenge by telling her she's a forty-something woman with bad legs.

[Laddy Muck]

Mr. Ben, I wear one - and am WAAAAY older than you.

Actually, that probably doesn't help you...:-S

If you want one, get one. But, for the record, given your stature and body shape, I think you would look pretty cool in one - whereas I just look like a suspicious smurf who doesn't give a damn.

[Jeremy]

I wear mine all the time! Sans logo, of course.

I would echo nashoi's advice, and definitely avoid the low-slung jeans.

[Brendan]

?When I became a man I put away childish things including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.? ? C.S. Lewis.

Although I wouldn?t advise living your life according to sound bites of received wisdom whose only qualification for being good advice is that they originate from someone who manage to become a household name.

Next thing you?ll be listening to advice from pricks who are somehow able to personify the concept of a quotation and whose only qualification for offering advice is that they can click, ?Post Message?.

[malumbu]

In 1990 (aged well over 20) I'd been to a Stop the War bash at the Red Rose Club in Islington. Missed my last train to Sydenham and ended up in West Norwood. It was a winter's night and I had an orangy Gap hooded sweat shirt. I'd cleared a load of personal crap out of my desk draw at work and put it into a large Brixton Cycles dispatch cyclists bag.

So I am too tight to get a cab so I'll jog the two miles or so home, with my hood up and the bag over my shoulder. I see a police metro coming the other way, and I think if they stop me I'll ask for a lift home. Low and behold they turn the car round and in deed stop and question me.

I pull off the hood and the male and female cop (who look about 15) are quite astonished. What do you think they said?

[Frankito]

Boo?

[womanofdulwich]

if you were a woman they would have said something like," be careful being out this late at night", and driven off.

[Laddy Muck]

Do you know the way to San Jose?

[malumbu]

They said, "ohh, we didn't realise that you were so old", and then refused to offer me a lift. But what do you think they actually thought? You will have to make a couple of assumptions about me, and an obvious one about plod.

(of course they could have said that I was only 24 minutes(hours) from Tulse Hill)

[Frankito]

Please God tell me you are not >100..

[????]

I wore my earring (away from work) until I was about 35 and then read an article somewhere saying no man over 30 should have an earring, it struck a chord, out it came. Never back. Except one fancy dress party...aghhhh, jimlad

[malumbu]

Seeing a guy with a hoodie, running with a bag over his shoulder, after midnight, the cops thought that I was a burglar. When they saw my age (28 or 29 at the time) and my ethnicity, they were quite surprised, expecting a young black man. Now this was over twenty years ago, when the Met were actually acknowledged as being institutionally racist. Maybe it is not like that nowadays but it still makes me (and friends both black and white) chuckle and reminds me of an unsuble Not the Nine O'clock News sketch. Odd link here: www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=169275.0