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You Are Violating Fashion
FOUND by Matt
in Cambridge, Massachusettes
I found this on the cobblestones in front of a college dorm. I wonder what fashion violations were so egregious that they warranted an anonymous complaint like this. And couldn't they have been more specific? If I were violating fashion, I probably wouldn't know exactly how, and would need more information.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Note to the note-writer. Most of us who violate fashion know it, but DON'T CARE!
In fact, we revel in our fashion violations!
(and... http://foundmagazine.com/find/432 sprang immediately to mind. I just can't help those free mental associations.)
Oh, this is funny ... I hope one day to get one of these myself, but I don't think I'm quite that much in violation. Getting one of these would actually make my day, I'd say, I agree with also in violation, I do revel!
This is quite amusing, I love it!
you are violating fashion... could be just a joke, OR it COULD be some stuck up, fruity fashion guy writing a silly not for someone. can't you just imagine it? a total fruitcup with a colorful scarf and tight pants saying those words in a lispy voice, because i can... and i just dont like it.
WEAR WHAT YOU WANT! DONT BE A SLAVE TO FASHION!
i violate fashion FAR too often.
I hope I get a note like this soon. Oh wait, I have.
My friends giggle, so it's worth it:-))
Love it!!!
Nice to find such a note on a website that has so much American Apparel ads.
Ahahaha!!!
Wear what you want people, you don't have to please anyone but yourselves!!!
I'd be so proud to get one of these!
I once heard someone say that we all make fashion choices, even if it's only "What shall I wear today". Cue lots of shouting at the radio - my choice of what to wear in the morning is based on what's on top of the pile.
As there is currently neither fine nor threat of incarceration, I say: Move aside, fancypants, Slouchman is a-comin through.
Amen. F in the D. Life is too short for fancypant, pinchy, tight, ridey-up things!
Bet you anything it was penned for one of those guys who wear their trousers half way down their asses with their gingham boxers pulled up. They should be forced to enroll in wardrobe management classes. Dude, a belt is not just an accessory, it has a PURPOSE!
This had to be written by a first-semester freshwoman...the sort who is desperately lonely because no one from her highschool clique chose her college. Six months ago she was the self-named fashion maven of her graduating class...today, she's nobody, but she still hasn't figured that out. It will strike her in a month or two...and then either she'll fade away and die or she'll try to get on the university newspaper so she can start a self-indulgent fashion column. They won't take her up on it, and she'll become a hard-faced, overly made-up, embittered young woman who always speaks just that bit too loudly for comfort and starts too many sentences, "Well, let me tell YOU..."
What kind of violation would be bad enough to deserve a note? Fanny pack?
A ticket issued by the FASHION POLICE! How exciting.
I wasn't sure that they really existed.
And I thought they would have had nicer stationery.
I would like this note if it came with a $5000.00 shopping spree with Stacy and Clinton, from "What Not To Wear".
Could not the writer of the note be called "Fashion"? Could the writer have used "violating" as an adjective?
I bet this has something to do with Christina - see
http://www.laborlawtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1
Cheers!
Grammar nazi's and fashion police. Where's our freedom?
There are a good number of girls from my alma mater that would have written this sort of note. But I agree with the librarian, most of them would've had nicer stationary. And nicer handwriting.
T- shirt!
we are the goon squad and we're comin to town
beep beep, beep beep
Fake find! Somone is trying to imitate the 'stop astral traveling' poster from way back. LAME!
@CHILLIN- I bet David Bowie never had a fashion faux-pas!!!!
I like your comment!
Egregious, good word.
This is hilarious, I love it! It sounds like someone watches 'What not to Wear.'
Personally, I don't think a person should be a slave to fashion trends but I do think it shows good taste when someone wears clothes that are appropriate for their body type and age as well as the type of occasion.
It would be amusing if this was actually written by a fashion free spirit, to one of those girls who are so totally coordinated that their earrings match with their shoes, purses, and belts.
My sophomore year at Uni I lived with a girl like that. She once refused to go out to lunch with myself and another girl in our suite, because I was wearing sneakers with my dress and the other girl was wearing a skirt over a pair of jeans. To quote: “You’re not actually going out like that are you? My god you need me to dress you sooo bad!” One time she even stole and threw out one of my t-shirts (tie-dyed) because she said it made her “throw up a little” each time she saw it.
Before we all moved out, after more fights and cursing than I would care to recall, we put all her whites into the washer with a brand new red sock.
This came from one of those girls who got escorted off a plane yesterday for being too pretty.
Squinched up: that was an awesome awesome story. i bet vengence was sweet. i need a tye-dye shirt. and i usually dress like i'm from at least twenty years ago, so i would think it was hilarious to get a note like this. good find. three thumbs up.
hey, maybe they're talking about this
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo/
That Belgian creation is HIDEOUS! I truly don't get that kind of fashion. UGH!
This find made me smile - it reminds me of my daughter-in-law for some reason. But the comments made me laugh! Thanks, posters!
I will never bow to the fashion police, I shall stay strong in my mis-matched pajamas and fuzzy slippers!
Holly, David Bowie and Elton John are like Bonnie and Clyde to the Fashion Police.
@ Sean in Rockville - I agree. And animals are not made of hate. So Fake Finders, CEASE and DESIST!!! lol
STOP! In the Name of Fashion!
This note has to have been written by Stacy and Clinton. They are waiting in another room with thier little screen watching everything that goes on right now and commenting on our choice of outfit...
Either that, or it's Big Brother
Remember when college students used to get fired up over real issues?
@TURBO- I hear ya, buddy!!!!
Okay I'm not usually a fashion cop, and have been guilty of 'violating fashion' (sounds pervy!) on several occasions, but there is one indivdual that I wish I had told to cease and desist. In high school there was a guy who insisted on wearing ugly overalls (he had quite the collection, engineer-type, hippy-ish short overalls, etc) with no shirt (or manties for that matter...ew.) underneath. He was a, shall we say, 'fragrant' chap, and the lack of a barrier between his teenage armpits and the rest of the world didn't help.
General flabbiness and really bad attempts at dreadlocks with a velvet chapeau were also issues.
Interesting guy--I wonder what he's up to these days...
my guess.. since it was in front of dorms... that the violater was wearing uggs.. either with sweatpants or a miniskirt.. eww
Perhaps it has something to do with this: http://www.zubaz.com/
Makes me think of an old roommate I had in college. She once showed up at a bar with us only wearing her nightgown, sneakers, and a hospital bracelet. I think the owners thought we had escaped from the looney bin!
I really could care less what anyone wears, but I would like it to be age and weight appropriate. For God's sake, ladies, no belly shirts if you HAVE a belly. And they make different sizes for a reason, so if you are a 14, please do not buy a 6.
And I dislike those baggy, drooping jeans that display 6" of boxer. It is especially funny to watch the "In custodies" trying to hold their pants up while cuffed behind the back...
I love it when the fashion cops come around issuing tickets and making arrests. I hope someone was sent to bad-shoes jail!
Oh look, Hoodie Girl, somebody sent you a letter.
In January, I went to visit my best friend, about an hour away. I decided to be "comfortable" and wear my pjs. I told my kids we were having a pj party. We all got dressed up in our pj, got halfway there, and my truck broke down. In the rain. Far from home. We had to walk to the nearest gas station. I spent the whole day in the back of a fix it shop in my pjs. You would think I would have learned my lesson, but I still drive the kids to school in my pjs.
My personal favorite while in school, were the girls who wandered to class in their pjs, a ratty hoodie, slippers, and PERFECT makeup. Did they actually expect someone to believe they had time to airbrush themselves within an inch of their lives, but not to pull on a pair of trousers or even some sneakers? *Sigh*
But I am a definite “Fashion Violator” so I shouldn’t talk. As a child of two ex-hippies I grew up in flowing skirts and tie-dye and denim, and until recently had aggressively hennaed hair and smelled of patchouli.
to devil in the details-- i just spent the last hour and a half checking out the mark chisholm/ americana apparel disaster. he's such an ass. anyway, thanks for the link, sometimes i like to remind myself how many shysters there are out there, it keeps me on guard.
and orinoco, you make me smile!
thanks Holly! It was that, or, He's a dedicated follower or fashion...
@ Flargy, I'll assume Elton John is Bonnie and David Bowie is Clyde? Or is it the other way around?
I mean "of" fashion
God! Sorry! I thought leg warmers had made a come back! Can I keep the ankel socks with the puff ball on the end atleast?
Sean and Rebel, were you under the impression that the author of the "stop astral traveling" find was the originator of the phrase "cease & Desist"? Many people have used this phrase throughout history, I'm quite sure.
Blurp: Where did you go to school? I knew someone like that freshman year of college...And I genuinely hope there isn’t more than one of him. Why do people think that in order to be a free spirit/hippie/Rasta you don’t need to bathe?!? (After much ostracizing by his peers he briefly entered the realm of normal clothing and hygiene, before losing it a bit sophomore year. He shaved his head and went on to wear such heinous combinations as a velvet shirt with a sparkly skirt, a pastel tie-dyed tee with a glittery unicorn in the center and, my personal favorite, a tropical-print house coat with combat boots, a cowboy hat, and a long purple fuzzy coat that looked like someone had skinned Barney. He claims he wasn’t gay/cross-dressing but rather “challenging people’s notions.” Challenging their notions of what? He never said.)
The FOUND that immediately sprang to MY mind when I saw this note?:
http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/695
What can be worse then Poo Hats?
So if you can't wear something decent don't wear anything at all...uh...I mean....oh forget it...nevermind.
@Melissa: Many things can be worse than Poo Hats.
Many, many, many things.
Visible thongs, Uggs, cropped sweatshirts (are they only meant to keep the boobies warm? honestly now!), sick-sagging trousers down to the knees, backwards baseball caps, t-shirts with airbrushed images of deceased loved ones/Disney characters, stiletto Timberlands, unitards, shorts with phrases across the bottom, shorts which show off bum cheeks, short skirts/dresses without panties, excessive bling…
I'm dying to know... what the heck is an Ugg?
I wrote that note! The Academy wouldn't let me on the red carpet so I was forced to scribble my comments on scrap paper. This is the one I lobbed at Tilda Swinton on Oscar night. I cannot imagine how this made it from LA to Cambridge!
http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&q=ugg&
could someone explain those uggs, please? from the sound of it though, I expect nothing good... i hope it's a new colour!
For those of you who were gagging at the sight of that Belgian piece - it's not supposed to be pretty... It's supposed to be ARTWORK.
High fashion is basically art sewn into wearable garments.
As for me, I am a violator of many fashion no-no's, including the fact that I own at least five tye-dyed t-shirts.
Tube tops on fat girls, wedgie pants, acid wash jeans, mom jeans, flowery house dresses in public, gold boots, and the yarny hat things people wear on the dreadlocks.
@Sheesh.. No, I have heard that phrase at least once before... Somewhere...
Anyhoo, the astral traveling find was the first thing that sprung to mind when I saw this and I know there really are no rules constituting a "good" find, but the astral traveling one was a lot more amusing so I thought I'd give it a "shout out", lol.
Also, other than the previous find, no other comment would have been relevant because, honestly, who gives a crap about fashion other than the handful of people creating "art" that no one will ever wear and about half of all teenage girls?
(and what it up with all these math spam questions??? the calculator on my computer has seen more action in the last 2 weeks than it usually sees all year!)
here's a link to all who are blessedly unaware of what Uggs are, sorry to disillusion you:
http://www.fleecefootwear.com/
As a lover of fashion and a very late poster...I love this find.Glad to know there are some fashinistas in Cambridge ! Good find !
julse in my room eating Amber's (famous) koolaid pie
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suspended in reykjavík
Uggs are shoes. Ugly shoes. I'm not making this up. here, have a look see.
http://s103.photobucket.com/albums/m126/truthy
I am well aware of the existence of the term cease and desist. Methinks the poster wrote this to deliberately protest the awful American apparel banners using the context of a previous find as its base. It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. Honestly I feel American Apparel is violating fashion and to see this right underneath the banner is just too big of a coincidence. Especially given the use of 'cease and desist' in previous finds.
It's really funny to me how many people seem to care about fashion. Apparently the tv guide channel thinks a bunch of nitwits discussing fashion faux pas at the Oscars is more important than showing what's on tv, which is their whole reason for existing, as they Are the TV GUIDE channel not the Fashion channel.
Also,being not so fashion inclined, even I'm a little embarrassed by what some people wear to work at my job. Whoever wrote this find would have a field day where i work!
I cannot tell you how sick I am of Uggs. I swear, since October, every undergraduate at my (anonymous) school wears them daily with either a) baggy pjs tucked into them b) black running tights and a northface jacket c) even with shorts d) jeans (fancy occasions).... it's like a uniform and I am SO thankful that i can vent about how uncreative these fashionistas are proving themselves to be. i like my snowboots, but only when it snows. whew, i feel much better
You are sooo right. Those uggs are the uggliest. Something even a caveman wouldn't wear.
What exactly does "desist" mean?
... and do you ever see "desist" without "cease"?
i like uggs. they are so comfy and warm and sure-footed.
actually, i didn't know they were uggs at first. I had never noticed this type of footwear until i inherited a pair when my mother-in-law died. actually we had bought them for her because she was really sick and her feet were always cold. but she never wore them, so we got them back brand new after she died. i wore them to school and all the students got excited. oh! their teacher was wearing the famous and trendy uggs! exciting, it was.
Who gives a shit? Fashion is all about conformity, and what would the world be if everyone conformed to one standard? It would be a bland place where no one is unique anymore. I applaud the people brave enough to go outside the norm and wear whatever they feel like wearing.
The phrase "cease and desist" was borrowed from legal language and made into a popular catchphrase on a BBC Radio 4 programme during WW2 (Radio 4 was then known as the Home Service). I can't remember the name of the programme just now but there was a very prissy male character who often said it, usually followed by "I am *Surprised* at you, Agnes!" (Which he pronounced Ag-er-ness). If I can find my Nigel Reese compilation I will post the programme name, since you can't edit these comments.
As for fashion, I'm with Oscar Wilde: Fashion is that form of dress so ugly it must be changed every three months.
'Cease and desist' is standard legal terminology to stop someone doing something, e.g. misusing a copyrighted name or playing loud music at night. I've never quite understoood what the difference is though, 'Cease' meaning 'stop doing it' and 'Desist' meaning 'don't do it'. I suppose if you only said 'Cease' it could be legally argued that this just meant 'stop now' and didn't prevent you from doing it again later? Oof. Glad I'm not a lawyer.
Orinoco, even I am not old enough to remember the Home Service programme you mention, but my guess would be 'ITMA' or 'Much Binding in the Marsh'?
Pause while I check in my Dictionary of Catch Phrases (Eric Partridge) -- no, it's not there.
How they loved their catch phrases in those days!
those uggs aren't exactly yummy but still not anywhere near as bad as the crocs. the colourful plastic horrors everyone from kindergarten and up wore last summer because of alleged healthiness, and were later banned from hospitals because they confused the electric machines... now, that's a trend of violation!
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these are plausible, too
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo/
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo/
this post goes out to you, Tori.
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the west is the best...(listening to The Doors)
My guess is that the violator was wearing:
Formal Shorts
or
Uggs
or
Socks with Sandals
or
Pouf Skirt
or
Low Rise Jeans
Or possibly those horrible gaucho pants that Carrie Bradshaw made popular a few years ago that women still insist on wearing to work with knee-high suede boots. Enough!
I would say that wearing leggings as pants almost everyday would deserve a note. I mean yeah, with a long tunic or a dress leggings are cute, however they are to be worn in moderation. Also, Leggings are not Pants! You don't wear them with sweatshirts or regular shirts.
Blurp--I can't believe that guy you went to school with got away with that ensemble!
My friends and I were fashion/dress code violators in high school once for wearing sleeves that were "too short" when we asked what the problem was-the principle said "Your shoulders are too distracting!" my friend replied that the cheerleader uniforms were way more revealing than what we had on. The man had no reply. The next day my friend wore a long sleeved shirt with just the shoulders cut out and had written on it "Do my shoulders distract you?
Violation of fashion? Only because you say so!
I would display this note proudly, not leave it to be found by someone else!
fashion fascist...
facion?
it would be fascion fascist