This inaugural installment in pet peeves is about Jean and Boots:
Worn separately, they do not look bad. Heck, boots or jeans can be super SuperSexy. Worn together jeans and boots don't necessarily look bad as I have seen one or two combinations that have worked (and I stress that very low number), BUT...
Ladies. LADIES! If you're wearing tight jeans with tight boots over the jeans, it simply doesn't look good, ESPECIALLY if the boots are so tight that the jeans muffin-top over the top of the boots. Loose or untied boots make the victim look like a careless dresser.
Now read carefully, it is acceptable to:
1) Wear jeans and boots if and only if the boots are under the jeans, which defeats the purpose of wearing boots which are obviously meant to be seen, so why bother.
2) Wear jeans with cute shoes or tennis shoes, high heels included.
3) Wear sexy boots with skirts or dresses, especially mid-length skirts. In fact, in the right combination this is almost unbeatably sexy.
Be careful: mukluks in general are not attractive except in extenuating circumstances, like if you're an eskimo and hence wearing an enormous coat made of seal or polar bear skin.
It's not acceptable to:
Wear jeans with boots over the top as it simply doesn't look good. In fact, I often find the combination to be atrociously ugly. I know many other guys and even some gals who agree. Stop the madness! Or rather, stop the ugliness!
Isn't it time for Iain, or vic, or space pirate, or whatever he calls himself these days, to finally let the world know his top 10 favorite movies of all time, in order? And none of this top 10 within genre stuff. I'm talking when you are trapped on a deserted planet, which 10 movies do you want to have with you?
Posted by: AER at January 21, 2007 08:13 PMOK, to prove it can be done, here is my list. They are all fairly recent, with no older classics and no art-house type films. But I will leave those to the auteur, Iain, when he provides his list in the near future.
Honorable Mentions: Evil Dead II, Bringing Down the House (best production assistance I've seen)
10. The Shining
9. Unbreakable
8. Dumb and Dumber
7. Stone Cold
6. The Empire Strikes Back
5. Field of Dreams
4. O Brother Where Art Thou
3. Hoosiers
2. Forrest Gump
1. The Shawshank Redemption