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No spoilers! Saw the film, t'was terrific stuff, Ledger was great 90% of the time, wildly over the top 10% of it. Aaron WAS Harvey, Maggie a better Rachel, although I never got the dislike everyone had for Katie Holmes in the role. Christian Bale- who I have a great deal of girl smut affection for- was bufftacularly fine, but the Batman voice makes me laugh and must surely kill his vocal cords after a coupe of takes.
All in all though it was precisely want I wanted from a Summer blockbuster. And I gave more than one whoop of gleeful delight at some of the stunts.
But that's not what I want to write about, what I want to write about is summer fashion, more importantly, hotpants.
The paramour had bought tickets, both of us grinned in relief when the machine spat them out, but the show wasn't until 8:45, and it was only 7:30. SO to kill some time we took a walk around, grabbed some Japanese food and took another stroll outside to partake in some people watching. Now people watching in Ireland in a thoroughly enjoyable pastime, we Irish are a mighty strange bunch, and in large groups I think we are fascinating. yesterday's group had a spectrum as broad as broad could be.
To our right we had a funny group of gelled chicken headed boys taking turns buying cheap can of beer from Tescos, A Bette Middler crossed with Red from Fraggle rock look alike, luminous tights girl, QuickSliver Dad and his gorgeous wife and beautiful children, the three men who arrived flushed and excited, one of which, the paramour noted, was wearing an actual Batman t-shirt. The Howya with her boyfriend spitting, and catcalling.
And oh holy sweet cheeks Batman, hotpants, there was a woman, wandering around wearing hotpants. Pink toweling hotpants, tight pink toweling hotpants and a matching pink toweling boobtube.
I gawked. I tried not to, but I did.
According to the Times over the weekend Hotpants are all the rage for the summer. But I generally read things like that and roll my eyes. "Sure' I always think. 'Whatever.'
But obviously I stand corrected, for not two seconds after the vision in pink pea-cocked past another one trundled past, and this one took the biscuit in blue. Blue hotpants, blue vest, and bright red sun burned legs. And then, another! ( although this one was with tights)
Maybe I'm too old, maybe I'm too square, maybe I'm too something or other, but dear sweet jebus what in marmalade's name possess any Irish women to stick on a pair of hot pants, gaze at herself in the mirror and say, why yes, this is perfect for going out this evening. Especially...and I'm not being an ass here, but especially the larger lady-like miss toweling pink most definitely was. Of course everyone is entitled to wear whatever the hell they like, but really, hotpants? Hotpants?
Sometimes things that work in music videos, fashion pages and on Kate Moss simply don't translate in the real world. It is my view that hotpants, toweling or otherwise are some of those things.
I am generally big into diversity, I’d much prefer people to dress at complete odds to each other as opposed to “uniform” typed you can see about town. I am not a fashion conformist. And lord know I am sure at some point we have all attempted fashion suicide and I reckon I will again at in the future (Unknows to myself off course). I guess it all boils down to knowing what looks ok on you, say if I wore white hot pants and a blue shirt I’d resemble a smurf whereas Lori would look like a super model. My only definite no is those ankle boots that people wear with dresses. They look like a train wreck from the 80’s.
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I'd need to research this further before commenting... forgive me it's a heterosexual male thing.
ReplyDeleteBtw, Donedrumm, Stillorgan or Dun Laoghaire? [ all have cinemas+adjacent Tescos}
Jeez, you'd need to be pretty frickin confident / deluded about your body to be out and about in a pair of hotpants. When it works, it REALLY works, but when it doesn't (99% of the time) it just looks desperate.
ReplyDeleteI think you have to be very slender and toned to be able to pull them off, very. Especially toweling pink ones.
ReplyDeleteConan, Dundrum! And god love the three lads who came-with batman t-shirt. They were seated with their popcorn and drink when the usher came up with people and asked to see their tickets, turns out they had tickets for Thursday's showing and had to go. They must have booked it wrong, poor chaps. At least they were in the right movie.
Mon petit amie squinchi informs me that Lidl were selling them, heh ha.
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You should prob stick up a few more hotpant pics for Conan's 'research'.
ReplyDeleteThank keerist I haven't seen too many around Belfast yet - millies and hotpants would be an awful combination. Mmmmmuffin top.
FMC - if everyone looked as great as the hottie with the perfect ass in your photo, I'd say, bring it on. It all adds to the gaiety of the day. There are, however, a few incredible sights to behold, especially when the sun shines. You often wonder if people have one of those special mirrors that make them look thinner, better looking and peachy skinned. And what about guys in those figure hugging spandex cycling shorts - eek. One of my dislikes is thongs showing above the ass of low cut jeans, usually worn by girls build like a square barn door, and large expanses of 38DD cleavage before 6 pm - its hard to know where to look.
ReplyDeleteLidl sell clothes?
ReplyDeleteHar Sheepie, nice try, do your own research.
Shebah, I hate the whale tail too, vile. It's so odd to me really, I mean we all have a mental image of what we look like in our heads, whether everyone else agree with it or not, but surely some things are so obviously not suited to the wearer. Like as you say low rider jeans that squish people in and make them look even heavier and mutton topped, or bras that are too small. There were so many women out an about yesterday evening in ill fitting bra,, all too small, making it look like they had four boobs or something, and what on earth is it with young lads wearing skinny jeans below the curve of their buttocks, with eight inches of underwear on display? How do they say up? Why do they want to look like Mc Hammer? How do they walk?
Apparently they do I don't really frequent Lild now, not out of snobbery, its just the brands and the animals would not eat that food, they are snobs. The No 1 cat actually looks people up and down before looking away in utter disgust.
ReplyDeleteThe lads are little losers aren't they? Ah I love it, going around with diamond earings in both ears and blonde mullets heh. I forgive the girls for the bra thing as it is damn hard to get a propper fitting here.
Nonny
It's sort of funny though, their immaculately styled hair, skinny jeans, studded belts, I suppose that's the glory of being a teenager you can dress it up and have fun with fashion. I just can't understand how it's comfortable to ahve your pants hanging that low.
ReplyDeleteBy the way it's not that hard to find a bra that fits really, just people always seem to go for a size to small. Or they thing only of the back size and not the cup.
ReplyDeleteNo I got my little bad boys measured in two different places, Brown Thomas and a boutique at the back of it and was given two different sizes. My mam does it ok normally but she has deserted me in search of a warmer climate, the auld bitch.
ReplyDeleteIs that yourt well toned ass in that photo,FMC. Just occurred to me that with all that running, kick boxing, scrunching and lunging you must have an A1, knock 'em dead ass!
ReplyDeletei actually haven't seen any hotpants so far, but skinny jeans are rotten.
ReplyDeleteSo many girls that aren't even fat really squeezing into them so tightly that theres a big muffin overhang. not nice.
Slightly off topic, but I'd never actually noticed hair extensions before but i was in a bar in sallynoggin last weekend and saw the most wretched looking haircut, like a mullet with some long blond strings attached to the end. which is basically what it was.
Is it that most people get unnoticable hair extensions or do not many people get them?
I had hotpants when I was about six and, my, how I loved them.
ReplyDeleteAs for Dark Knight, have been, haved already talked about it - and I thought it was a cracker.
However I have to say that I did find old Mr. B. Man vaguely creepy. And I reckon he looks like a cat from behind - it's the ears -they belong to a pussy cat, not a man of the bat.
Nonny all you need is some measureing tape and you can pretty much measure yourself perfectly.
ReplyDeleteShebah, hah, I wish, although I will say to any lady that squats are you VERY good friend of you want pert bottoms.
Morgor, agreed, enough with skinny jeans and ballet flats and bags the size of small caravans dangled of upraised arms.
LK! You're right! Still though, I'd let him bounce his sonar off me any time.
Right, running.
Hot pants are bad enough, but the ones with stuff written across them make my eyes bleed, but my ironic senses sing.
ReplyDeleteIf you feel the need to have "Sweet" written across your arse, it may not be true.
Hah Yack! Or 'Juicy'.
ReplyDeleteBefore I go, aimed especially at Shebah, every last free cent I have this year is going to go towards a pair of Gucci over the knee leather boots. Sweet Jesus! Have you seen them???? Must have.*
*sweats, foams at the mouth.
"Durrty" might be more appropriate ;)
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ReplyDeleteNooooooooooooooooo, don't so it, please they are horrendous. I'll give you my vintage chanel black hand bag. Just refrain!!
Nonny
I don't wear hot pants because I'd rather not go about the world with Spouse grappling like a newborn monkey around my hips. Also, you might as well be wearing a swimsuit, and that requires shaving above the knee. Soooo much additional effort.
ReplyDeleteI was always perplexed at people-watching in Dublin, particularly seeing girls and women with conspicuously-branded items. It always looked to me like they knew they should be wearing such-and-such brands, or such-and-such styles, but gave no thought to how the pieces should go together. And since things seem to hit a bit later here, I get to do the same kind of people-watching now that I did a year ago there. Thanks, Dublin.
I encourage you to wear over the knee leather boots. and hot pants.
ReplyDeleteand put up pictures.
Cos erm i'm big into fashion type stuff. yup thats me.
no no no no no no.........the absolute horror of it all.....
ReplyDeleteIf I had an ass like hte ass in your photo, I'd be wearing hotpants. Constantly. And saying to everyone, strangers included, 'Look! Look at my ass!'
ReplyDeleteIrish girls have become strangely deluded these days. It's very strange. I'll add Urban shorts to the list of confusion.
Morgor, heh, you're not the only one who noticed the extensions. You were in the 'Noggin, though, in fairness.
If I had an ass like hte ass in your photo, I'd be wearing hotpants. Constantly. And saying to everyone, strangers included, 'Look! Look at my ass!'
ReplyDeleteThat is basically what hotpants do say though.
"every last free cent I have this year is going to go towards a pair of Gucci over the knee leather boots"
ReplyDeleteI'm sure they do matching hotpants... you know you'd wow the marathon in that combo for... em... charity like.
Har, not really for running Conan, more for drooling over and stomping around town on Satdee in.
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Jo, the worst one are when people put in synthetic extensions that are a shade or two lighter than the natural hair, it's ridiculous looking.
I bet it takes the courage of a nation to wear hotpants in this country.
ReplyDeleteThe smoked ham in Lidl is lovely.
Nonny, keep yer bag, I'm getting those boots.
ReplyDeleteGrims, I could sit for hours watching folk here in summer, it's endlessly fascinating. Such varying styles and shapes and individual quirkiness.
Cate, CG swears by their onion and chives cheese.
ReplyDeleteI have indeed noticed the new couture phenomena as described. Now, not wishing to sound a bit uppity, but don't you think that some of your comments are a bit...well, old-fashioned? "I can't believe what the young people of today are wearing". "Won't those tight trousers cut off your blood supply?"
ReplyDeleteYou sound like my granny :)
Sweet Jesus, them with the big tassel????? Miss Cat are you a rocky chick?
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What would you wear them with?
ReplyDeleteIt seems you can take the girl off the horse but not the boots off the girl.
ReplyDeleteI foresee major discomfort behind the knees when sitting... unless you're wearing jods and doing the rising trot in smurfs.
Tweed or a black wool tunic, and a long wool generously swishy coat.
ReplyDeleteOh Docky you'd have to have seen the pink toweling shorts and matching boob tube. Fashioned, old or otherwise didn't come into it.
Nope Conan, their elasticated behind the knees,( although you could be right about the whole horse angle) I just adore them. Must have them. Who needs food anyway?
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Nonny
No no, too sloppy, much more fitted. It's more like a pinafore than a tunic, really. But with a kick pleat on either side. I'm not describing it very well but it looks lovely.
ReplyDeleteAh, I'm seeing it now (the Paramour reads this, I hope) a pug pup in one and a French bulldog pup in the other... two gucci pooches in boot parcels!
ReplyDeleteok I give up I dont know what a tunic is.
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You can keep your Guccis. This is what the well-dressed Clare man is wearing to Dundrum cinema this season:
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i'm with you, grims - the shaving above the knee, the newborn monkey grappling... none of it worth the effort.
ReplyDeletemy general rule is that privates are called just that for a reason. and if an outfit shows mine when sitting and/or standing, it's a no-go. plain and simple.
Oh God, they're gorgeous. The boots. I found a pair of Prada ones in brown suede on line for $300 less but they could well look too Robin Hoody, I dunno. I'd have to try them on. Woohoo!
ReplyDeleteThey are seriously great sexy boots, real investment dressing - you'll still be able to wear them when you are a racy 80. I think you have fired a few imaginations - the guys are seeing your well toned bod in pink hotpants and those boots - they'll need to put their tongues back in and calm down or their colleagues will begin to suspect something is afoot!
ReplyDeleteOh yeah. Went to see The Batman yesterday evening. Thought t'were only brilliant. yeah, yeah, action movie genre, but action movie genre done really well.
ReplyDeleteHeath Ledger did a very fine Joker, indeed. Been thinking about his performance...it is still impressing me a day later. He's a real loss to the acting profession.
haha, but in shiny patent leather surely! And without jean underneath.
ReplyDeleteConan, that would be EXACTLY they way I'd want them delivered.
Golly, everyone is so fast at typing!
ReplyDeleteThose boots, I just love them, and you're right they're the sort of thing I can wear for years. But er, not with pink hotpants.
Sam I know what you mean, brown suede can be a toughie unless the boot is ecatly right.
I wonder who the villain will be in the next Batman?
ReplyDeleteIt must be a gereration thing cause me no likey, I'm more of a well fitted jeans, Stilettos, shift dresses and pearls kinda girl. Nevertheless, rock on amiga!
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FMC: Bane should be about due for the next villan
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I confess that when I was in my early twenties, I rocked a pair of black velvet hotpants. I used to wear them out dancing with by thigh high black suede boots.
ReplyDeleteBut I wouldn't be caught dead in a pair now.
That's the glorious thing about youth, you can get away with wearing just about anything. Even pink toweling hotpants.
ReplyDeleteRight, now to go look up Bane. Oh yes, I will do some work today. Honest.
Mr Freeze?
ReplyDeleteMedbh, your fabulosity knows no bounds!
Conan: If only I could get over Aahnuld playing him in that god-awful Batman and Robin. Oh christ, Robin! I have never had an irrational hatred for an actor as I had for Chris O'Donnell.
ReplyDeleteoh arnold! j had to explain to me that batman begins and the dark knight both are the start of a "new" batman series, and they ignore the ones that came before. which helped, as i was a little bit confused about the timeline.
ReplyDeleteand OH how i loved the dark knight!
HOLY ICICLES! Sheepo... Arnie was the second Austrian to play Mr Freeze. The great director Otto Preminger played him in the Adam West tv series.
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ReplyDeleteNo wait, that was Bruce Forsythe
Golly, everyone is so fast at typing!
ReplyDeleteGolly is such a quaint word.
hehe, I was so curious I had to look up the origins of golly.
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I especially like strewth (god's truth), gadzooks (god's hooks) and poppycock (pappe kak is dutch for soft dung) .
Conan, something told me to take advantage of being young and skinny. Some dudes I know told me I looked like one of the Fly Girls and that put me over the moon.
ReplyDeleteI'm ultra jealous of the boots you're getting, FMC.
A brain waker-upper for today!
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Poppycock is one of my favourite words too. And I've been to say 'confound it' on occasion.
ReplyDeleteMedbh! They're so freaking expensive that at the moment they're only in 'if' and ' maybe' and 'but they would be an investment' territory. But I do really really like them so.
Holy crap, I got 0% in that test, 'shameful' it said. I may need to regig my thinking.
"Holy crap, I got 0% in that test, 'shameful' it said. I may need to regig my thinking."
ReplyDeleteGood grief!
You know what's worse, the second time I did it I got 0% too! Maybe new and fabulous boots would help realign my colour wheel.
ReplyDeleteWhat did you get on it?
I got 88%, nija chop clever people, hii yahhh!
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13%, but same "shameful" shite!
ReplyDeleteWhats wrong with you people did you not read the rules?
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100% first time, shazam.
ReplyDeleteI think the trick is to not really look directly at the word.
If you read you fall into it's trap, just glance and take in the colour.
FMC, maybe you'd be better off if you closed your eyes?
* waves at Daiy Mae, who she missed in her boot fervour earlier. Agrees about privates remaining so.*
ReplyDeleteI might well be, hang on I'll try again.
ReplyDelete0%!!! Confound you Shebah!
ReplyDeleteThis bloody thing must be broken.
ReplyDeleteAmiga, it asks you to click the colour of the word not what the word spells.
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100% "You are the Master!"
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13% huzzah, a breakthrough. Now it can go and shite.
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It's like those pictures that you were supposed to see an image inside that I never could.
Poooof.......88% but a panic struggle. Stressful stuff that.
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