Fashion faux pas on the Appalachia trail
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.
Well, I wore old cotton race t-shirts and didn't die from it.Originally Posted by Awol1970
Anything you wouldn't be caught wearing (excepting cotton of course...duh)
I wouldn't wear a Packa. Or Limmer boots.
I happen to love my Limmers. Old school boots for an old school guy.
"Take another road to another place,disappear without a trace..." --Jimmy Buffet
+1 on that. I'm sure its comfortable, but it just looks weird and a little disgusting.
Wearing a bandana on your shoulder strap...
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
Does that mean I shouldn't wear my Borat mankini thong?
"That's the thing about possum innards - they's just as good the second day." - Jed Clampett
Going commando: OK. Wearing a thong: not Ok. Does this not seemed messed up or what?
"Take another road to another place,disappear without a trace..." --Jimmy Buffet
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.
Is that gross on women too, or just men?
ive worn a shirt that says minnesota smith every moment of every hike since 06. what? i am a fopa.
matthewski
Its just gross when men do it
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
I thought so too, but my judgement's often wrong. Take for example, my hanging my pink underpants out to dry at a Smokies shelter last summer--I woke up to a Boy Scout troop taking a group picture underneath them!
Hey, now wait a minute. That's useful. In any sort of warm weather I sweat like a herd of pigs, and having my bandana right there is great.
Fashion faux pas: having all your clothing match -- color, brand, everything.
balaclavas.
Knee high gaiters.
Whistle necklaces.
If you have man boobs and you wear a light synthetic shirt...
Yeah, I guess you're right, its more utilitarian than fashionable.
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
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