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31 December 2006

"Larry King Can Walk???!" I got a kick out of all the comments about Larry King's outfit in this 5 page Oh No They Didn't thread. I didn't know that people "that old" shouldn't wear jeans. What's the magic age when people should stop wearing jeans? I want to know if I should start dressing in muumuus and smocks now. I did see a really fetching housedress at Walmart the other day...

post by: iconomy at: 14:18 | 28 comments

Make sure you get the ones with the snaps down the front, iconomy. Buttons are too hard for our old lady fingers and the slip on kind, well, it can be hard to lift our arms that high.

And Larry should dress like that more often. His suspenders really accent his stooped shoulders.

posted by jrossi4r 31 December | 14:29

I disagree about the jeans; I think he looks fine in them.

And I'm so glad other bunnies read ONTD! It's one of my FAVS!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 31 December | 14:34

Speaking of celebrity gossip...has anyone else seen these pictures of Paris Hilton basically voguing in front of a sick baby? I find them simultaneously hilarious and revolting.

posted by jrossi4r 31 December | 14:36

My take is that when you are that old, wear whatever the hell you want. Hell, at my age I wear whatever the hell I want. The Style Police can suck my balls.

posted by King of Prontopia 31 December | 14:50

He looks fine*. People should never stop wearing jeans. Jeans are the only trouser I feel comfortable in and I play to wear them until I die.

*I do have it on fairly good authority that Larry King cuts the smelliest farts in the world. No, I am not kidding.

posted by jonmc 31 December | 14:59

I would put Larry in a dark jean. For some reason those look silly on him. Too trendy and youthful with all of that faux fading down the front. But what the hell, his wife probably bought them for him.

I could be wrong but I believe I read that Diane von Furstenberg doesn't wear jeans, ever. I think some fashion types shun them. I love them and wear them constantly until it gets too hot, which is most of the time.

My dad wears jeans beautifully. He calls them dungarees. Farmers and Paul Newman can wear jeans until they drop dead and still look great.

posted by LoriFLA 31 December | 15:26

Fashion types wear jeans on The Sartorialist (the on-the-street fashion blog) all the time, so I don't think jeans are out just yet. I think you're right about Diane von Furstenberg, though.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 31 December | 15:27

Forgot to mention that the pic of Paris is horrid. Does the woman have any brain cells? Where are her parents? I know she is an adult, but she needs a wise counselor. Somebody to clean up her image and give her a pep talk before she walks into scenes like this. end rant.

posted by LoriFLA 31 December | 15:28

Fuck the too old stuff. I got myself a pair of lime green and black striped tights for Christmas and I am going to wear them with a black stretch miniskirt and biker boots because I can, I always have and I always will. I still have long hair too and I do not care that I am in my 40s and am supposed to get a bob and put on a nice suit. Hell, I also got myself a pair of Carhartt overalls for Christmas - the situations which call for them are slightly different than those which call for striped tights but I still plan to wear them for the next 40 years or so.

posted by mygothlaundry 31 December | 15:31

And Paris Hilton is a vapid twit. Aren't her 15 minutes of fame over YET? Sweet weeping christ on a pogostick, moronic starlets make me ill.

posted by mygothlaundry 31 December | 15:32

Fashion types wear jeans on The Sartorialist (the on-the-street fashion blog) all the time, so I don't think jeans are out just yet.

Yes, jeans are fashion aren't they? Jeans are the one thing that will never go out of style. I should of worded it better.

I am thinking of the old school people like Anna Wintour and such. Every once in a while I will be reading a snobby fashion mag (why do I waste my money?) and will come across and article that states that this socialite or this fashion guru doesn't like jeans.

posted by LoriFLA 31 December | 15:34

Forgot to mention that the pic of Paris is horrid.

What pic of Paris?

I love the way you dress, mgl. And I love my jeans and will never give them up. You'll have to pry them from my cold, dead thighs.

posted by iconomy 31 December | 15:35

My grandfather had an almost-identical sweatshirt, so it is apparently old-man appropriate.

I have no beef with the jeans.
However, I do think he's well-off enough to afford to get some shoelaces. All I can think when seeing that is "he'll fall and break a hip!"

posted by kellydamnit 31 December | 15:35

That picture must be a photoshop job. The jeans don't bother me, but did you notice his shoes? Is he wearing laceless imitation Chucks with a skull & cross-bones screen printed on?

posted by mullacc 31 December | 15:37

mullacc, you must be right. I didn't look at the shoes.

iconomy, jrossi4r posted a pic of Paris in his/her comment.

posted by LoriFLA 31 December | 15:44

"jrossi4r posted a pic of Paris in his/her comment"

jrossi4r, is there something you haven't told us about? :>

posted by arse_hat 31 December | 16:03

Age-appropriate? What the hell does that even mean?

When I was a teenager, I was in a constant ongoing low-level war with my mother over the legnth of my hair and the rips in my jeans. She always gave me the 'when you live on your own you can do whatever you want..' line.

I live on my own now of course. At Christmas she gave me shit over my long hair, saying 'your 36, it looks ridiculous.' Some people just can't fathom people not doing what they'd do, is all it is. So ven though I'm an old guy I'll keep my long hair, beard, earrings, jeans and leather jacket, thank you. I live under my own roof after all.

posted by jonmc 31 December | 16:29

My dad just turned 85 and he wears jeans. Of course, he's not Larry King and doesn't have to worry about public opinion.

posted by tommasz 31 December | 19:03

jrossi4r, is there something you haven't told us about?

If I don't have a vagina, I shudder to think how this child plans to exit. (Well, technically they're going to tie me down and cut it out. Kind of like the end of Braveheart. But there's no vagina joke in that.)

My dad is 55 and has always referred to them as "dungarees."

posted by jrossi4r 31 December | 19:07

If I don't have a vagina, I shudder to think how this child plans to exit.

you mean to tell me you don't have a fire escape?

posted by jonmc 31 December | 19:12

No fire escape. If my bush is burning, call Moses and find out what it wants.

posted by jrossi4r 31 December | 19:29

Moses says take two tablets and go to bed.

posted by jonmc 31 December | 19:32

If I don't have a vagina, I shudder to think how this child plans to exit.

So how did it get in then?

posted by essexjan 31 December | 20:01

Immaculate conception?

posted by iconomy 31 December | 20:15

Rudi Gernreich, the fashion designer who gained his fifteen minutes by promoting the topless swimming suit--basically a black girdle with 'V' straps that met above the bellybutton--thought that, in the future, older people should shave their heads and wear what were basically tents. Burkhas for anyone over 30 was the basic concept, something which only made sense to teenagers then. Well, probably now, too, I suspect. But it's baby boomers uber alles, baby.

De'Bella — or Debbie, as everybody calls her — decided late in life to become a porn star. This year she turned 50, time, she knew, to chase her dream.

“I love sex,” she explained, biting into a Burger King special before embarking on her scene for the day at a rented house in the San Fernando Valley. She was wearing a bright pink satin and black chiffon nightie with a matching thong and heavy makeup.

The Graying of Naughty

We got yer senior porn stars right here, courtesy the New York Times Style Section... Too old to wear jeans ? It's not like Larry was wearing a bright pink satin and black chiffon nightie with a matching thong and heavy makeup.

...Or making porn.

posted by y2karl 31 December | 20:40

Dammit, inconomy! You beat me to what I was gonna say (the cold, dead thighs thing). *grumble*

I bet the people who said that were young. Why is it that people can't figure out they will one day be "old" as well and still wanting to have sex or wear jeans. Boneheads.

posted by deborah 31 December | 22:17

My dad is 55 and has always referred to them as "dungarees."

My dad is also 55. I didn't mean to imply that he was old. :->

posted by LoriFLA 31 December | 22:46

My husband is 56 and he looks hot in jeans.

posted by deborah 01 January | 03:28

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