This dovetails into Sierra Echo's post about fanny packs. Are there any fashion no-nos on the trail? Anything you wouldn't be caught wearing (excepting cotton of course...duh)
This dovetails into Sierra Echo's post about fanny packs. Are there any fashion no-nos on the trail? Anything you wouldn't be caught wearing (excepting cotton of course...duh)
"some editing should be done in parentheses for clarity where spelling prevents reading."---matthewski
What's the difference between ignorance and apathy?
I don't know and I don't care.
up over the hills, theres nothing to fear
theres a pub across the way with whisky and beer
its a lengthy journey on the way up to the top
but it ain't so bad if you have a great big bottle o'scotch
Maybe a sticker saying Hello my name is ..."Bill Bryson"?
No Speedos, short-shorts or thongs for men.
platform shoes, stiletto heels, a definite no-no(unless disguised by gaiters)
Silk long johns without shorts.
The only true fashion faux pas that I have seen on the trail are:
An older and overweight man wearing compression tights with nothing under or over them.
A male hiker wearing a kilt with no underwear with his junk showing constantly.
An older hiker in a shelter wearing nothing at all. Took me a while to notice that he wasn't wearing any pants. His wife was fully dressed.
Now I have seen plenty of silly clothing including someone in the Whites dressed in a tweed sportcoat and tie hiking up on top of a mountain and Baltimore Jack with an eight inch hole in the back seam of his shorts but whatever.
ive worn a shirt that says minnesota smith every moment of every hike since 06. what? i am a fopa.
matthewski
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.
-Edward Abbey
Man junk or camel toes not okay. Also, I don't like seeing men naked from the waist up. And little sundresses for "town clothes" that are so short you can't raise your arms are not good either.
Some knew me as Piper, others as just Diane.
I hiked the PCT: Mexico to Mt. Shasta, 2008. Santa Barbara to Canada, 2009.
Some would say parachute pants, aka, the 80's......but I miss mine...and they weren't cotton!
"You hiked up a mountain? Why would anyone want to do that?"--question posed to me by friend