You cannot simply buy the t-shirt as part of your race entry fee, as you can with most other commerative race t-shirts. You have to earn it.…

Don't know why I didn't see this blog when it first came out, but hopefully it's not so late that everyone's gone home....

Not at all. Join the party!

My friend also says they are great in his restaurant kitchen, washable, protective, (as jandals are a "no"),yet breathe in a very hot environment.He uses them.

I've found plastic Birkenstocks pretty common in the hospitality industry for the same reasons.

My favourite piece of clothing for a long, long time was a green boucle overcoat with a mongolian lamb collar. I wouldn't dream of wearing m. lamb…

I don't get the antipathy towards crocs.
They're just jandals without the toestrap.

it's a thongless task being an
allegator of style crimes...

yrs
The Ruby Hat
of Omar Khayyam

I don't get the antipathy towards crocs

I noticed many hospital staff around the radiology dept. wore them, and even commented on the benefits of their construction being appropriate for their hospital environment, with no studs, eyelets,no inner metals.(I was getting MRI's)
My friend also says they are great in…

I used to make leather jackets

Will have a wee chat to you at the blend about this, if that's alright.

The best item clothing I had was my shirt of many colours, 1990-91. Inspired by Jordan Lucks shirt. It was of many patterns and…

I regarded it as indestructible, and never really did anything to look after it

Yep, Tartan lining, black Jet leather. had it a good 25 years. Still goes. I relined the cuffs with moleskin as I couldn't part with the lining and it really is fortunate that I used to…

Craig. NO.

Tell us about Crocs, Megan...

comfy and practical...

Craig. NO.

No, no. no!!! Next thing, you will be tucking your jersey into your pants ;-)

I console myself with the thought that my 1993 White Zombie T-shirt is still…

I guess…

I first really knew my oldest daughter…

comfy and practical...

Craig. NO.

I was bloody rubbish at singing.

Then you probably never accompanied yourself by rapidly pulling your jacket's zip back and forth to make authentic scratching noises. Maybe it takes a certain kind of zip, but done well it's most convincing. I'm easily impressed by such things.

It was a proper, heavy motorcyle jacket with paisley lining, and I bought it via a classified ad towards the end of my year in Timaru ($75, I think).

I wore it a handful of times on a bike, but mostly, it was…

I mean, what I could say about the dress I am wearing _today_ would fill a page.

They make me strut.

Because I love them, and they make me feel good about myself, wearing them makes me walk taller, and smile wider. I have…

Seriously, the red boots that I bought from Duo a couple of years ago are on my list of favourite items of clothing.

Best to get the zip replaced

It has four domes outside the zip so it's still close-able and quite comfortable, so I haven't been concerned. If they start to go I'll look at taking it in for repair.

Best to get the zip replaced – any good tailoring/repairs shop in D will be able to get you back into it, and warm and dry! Same for relining favourite jacket/coat. Oh yes ....

Had a beautiful Marilyn Sainty…

I feel I really have to say here... I love my leather jacket, and I wear it all the time.

No, really. I bought it new about 15 years ago, and it took about 10 years to get properly worn in.

I got my leather jacket 15 years two months…

O, and clothing I have loathed:

I'm actually pretty much Levis and a tshirt kinda person, but I will wear any shoe with them. I go for comfort and I like a good looking shoe.

I go to sleep as I was born,

Def a weather permitting for me but…

And any kind of 'night attire'(which I stopped wearing a year later) – I go to sleep as I was born, and I know how to wear a blanket or…

While I dont wear such delights myself, I have an eye for those who dress well ( the 'well' being such a personal thing) and enjoy those revelling in the beauty of what they wear-

Favourite clothes, I've had a few. Shoes, I've never had many. But if I had to pick one of each I would say:

– black fuckme stilettoes that I owned in my very early 20's, , that were so high I couldn't wear them on the way anywhere,

So, after…

I've only just found out that American Splendor creator Harvey Pekar died on July 12th, aged 70...

Actually half of my utterly stuffed wardrobe is just vintage coats! It's an illness.

I have wardrobe envy right now, just so you know.

Question for people who like opshop clothes: do you worry about them carrying some karmic essence of the last owner, or is that part of the attraction?

Wow, never. I always just think 'some fabulous person owned this fabulous thing and now I've found it and I own it, hooray!'…

No, really. I bought it new about 15 years ago, and it took about 10 years to get properly worn in. Its really thick leather, weighs approximately half a cow,…

First was a really oversized Leod Hayes (Sp?) shirt from the back of Mid City Arcade in 1989 I think, which I gave to someone else a few years back after the elbows gave way. They still wear it for…

...speaking of Clean t-shirts,…

The 1950s black & white cotton frock I found in an opshop and wore until it fell apart (and which I still have somewhere in the back of my wardrobe) – and the white one with red flowers all over it.

The purple shot silk ballgown…

even though it's probably a good half his baggage allowance...

I always wear my heaviest boots and jackets onto the plane. I figure I get an extra couple of kilos in allowance that way.

Then they stopped making them.

which I had assumed were cotton until one night I was making pancakes and leaning over the stove a little too much and the shirt went up in flames

Cotton actually burns very well, which is why all the kerfuffle with kids' pyjamas being close-fitting. Nylon melts rather than burns,…

– black fuckme stilettoes that I owned in my very early 20's, , that were so high I couldn't wear them on the way anywhere, just sitting…

It was a…

I used to wear old-man pyjama bottoms to school as trou in 6th form (much to the annoyance of my trying-to-be-cool 3rd former sister),

I used to wear his old PJs too, which I had assumed were cotton until one night I was making pancakes and leaning over the stove…

My Clacton and Frinton red shirt bought from their store in Vulcan Lane in late 80s. (they have moved to Santa Monica).

My brown suede jacket bought…

In 7th form I got a pair of brown flares from my Opa with a matching suit jacket that I didn't usually wear. I wore the hell out of them for the next two years which amused him greatly

I used to wear old-man pyjama bottoms to school as trou…

But did you ever go clear?

No, and I have no intention to!