Banning Bad Fashion
Diane Ellis, Ed. ·
Jul 9, 2010 at 4:12pm
While San Francisco is busy banning sugary soft drinks, plastic bags, and the sale of pets, maybe they should take a cue from Iran and ban mullets too.
I'd like to hear someone make the conservative's case for banning ugly fashion, because I personally lack the creativity to do so. Claire?
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Jul '10
Re: Banning Bad Fashion
Don't ban it, just tax the hell out of it.
Jun '10
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By ugly fashion do you really mean anti-fashion? Like all that facial junk that makes a kid look like he fell face first into a tackle box?
May '10
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Wouldn't the conservative argument be for better social standards. People used to dress nice in public because it was expected. Shame needs to make a comeback!
Alas, we live in a time when men dress as slobs. I get so many positive comments when I wear a hat in public from total strangers. I think they make me look snappy.
Dress well men! If you are 40, ditch the t-shirt and flip flops!
Jun '10
Re: Banning Bad Fashion
I just finished listening to John Derbyshire’s Friday broadcast at NRO. He ended with a story of a German man who was reported to the authorities and arrested for the ringtone on his cell phone. What was it about his ringtone, you might ask, that would cause such a reaction from the ringtone Nazi’s of Germany? Well, irony notwithstanding, his phone chimed even vibrated with the verve of an erstwhile German Fuehrer barking out a speech, doubtless at Nuremberg. Setting aside bad taste, what this incident clearly shows is that a libertarian approach to fashion should be taken, for given the passage of time even “good” fashion grows old. So when next you see hip hugging pants cut so low that you might, based on the length of crack displayed, think the young lady so dressed to be a plumber, sans utility belt, take heart, for this too shall pass. Sigh, if only it were so for the backwards worn ball cap: twenty years and counting.
Jun '10
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Bryan G. Stephens: Wouldn't the conservative argument be for better social standards. People used to dress nice in public because it was expected. Shame needs to make a comeback!
Alas, we live in a time when men dress as slobs. I get so many positive comments when I wear a hat in public from total strangers. I think they make me look snappy.
Dress well men! If you are 40, ditch the t-shirt and flip flops! · Jul 9 at 5:21pm
It's not the hat that matters, but the mind under the hat that counts. Look at Klavan. This is a man whose mind he so beautiful that he runs around in public with a naked noggin. Klavan shaves his head like a body builder who shaves his pecs to put on display his best attributes. I think I have a man crush. Did I just say that?
Jun '10
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Hey, Ricochet Admin., we really need an edit feature for typos.
May '10
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Totally in line with current constitutional jurisprudence, Diana.
Mullet = Business in Front, Party in Back.
Under the Commerce Clause, Congress can regulate those activities that affect interstate commerce, particularly business, as intended by the Founders. Arguably, the Business portion of the mullet affects interstate commerce in the following three ways:
1) Early 80's Camero market
2) 10 PM Virginia-to-Maryland Seagrams 7 runs
3) Used RUSH 8-track sales (*shameful Gov. Pawlenty prodding*) (possibly commerce with Canada, a foreign nation)
As for the Party portion of the mullet, I'd like to point you to Article 1, Section 8. Under the Necessary and Proper Clause, Congress can pass a law to enforce an existing power, in this case the Power to regulate interstate commerce. Additionally, we all know you have to Fight for your Right to Party. I'm not aware of any such war having occurred, nor any right existing in the first ten amendments.
In defense of mullets, the 2nd Amendment protects the right to bear arms. I have yet to see a mullet with sleeves of any sort.
As a catch-all, I thought I spotted something in a penumbra somewhere...
Jun '10
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Oh, Joe, fickle soul that I am, I think I have a new man crush.
May '10
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Correction! I was thinking of Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, and it was REO Speedwagon, not Rush! Pawlenty -> Minnesota -> Canada -> Rush. Not my fault.
I strongly second the edit button, Paules, at least for a ten minute post-post period.
Jun '10
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Hey, Joe, how 'bout you and me hook up for a tag team match against Klavan and Steyn? The world's first virtual bar fight could be a real hoot. Gentleman's rules, of course: no low blows, no brown liquor before nine, and no moloko vellocet before ten(you kids can look up the last reference on youtube). It's time the heavyweights got a challenge from the ranks.
May '10
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Bryan G. Stephens:
Alas, we live in a time when men dress as slobs. I get so many positive comments when I wear a hat in public from total strangers. I think they make me look snappy.
Dress well men! If you are 40, ditch the t-shirt and flip flops! · Jul 9 at 5:21pm
I have received more compliments for my Irish tam than anything else in my life. I'm sure I could wear it with a tuxedo and any country club would assume I'm someone important. As it is, I wear it with a T-shirt and sandals, and old fogies admire me despite.
My grandpa always wore an Irish tam as well, and his grandpa before him. It's apparently one of those rare fashions that transcends culture and time.
May '10
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~Paules, you are the oddest duck. First, you mention a secret desire to play out life as a 20-something year old infatuated with death and hanging out with an old woman. Then, you throw me off by suggesting you have the authority as someone halfway to ancient that I still have a few more desperate years in me before I hit that mark, too. Now, you pop up with a testosterone level of someone who would fall in-between those two characters looking for a bar fight. You posted before nine, so I'm wondering if your drink is white. Maybe another hour of brown liquor and I'll think molloko sings on tune.
Jun '10
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Andrea Ryan:
~Paules, you are the oddest duck.
It's all the voices in my head, dear. Bwhahahaha!
May '10
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Oh, cool! So, it's personality Roulette when we interact with you. What a bonus. :-)
~Paules: Andrea Ryan:
~Paules, you are the oddest duck.
It's all the voices in my head, dear. Bwhahahaha! · Jul 10 at 4:34am
Re: Banning Bad Fashion
Bryan G. Stephens: Wouldn't the conservative argument be for better social standards. People used to dress nice in public because it was expected. Shame needs to make a comeback!
Alas, we live in a time when men dress as slobs. I get so many positive comments when I wear a hat in public from total strangers. I think they make me look snappy.
Dress well men! If you are 40, ditch the t-shirt and flip flops! · Jul 9 at 5:21pm
Cosign. A Hitler ringtone is illegal in Berlin, but this fashion show [unerotic nudity alert about 5 slides in] -- hands down the most degenerate display of exhaustion and decadence ever to hit the runways -- is a big big hit. We Americans would sooner ban the latter than the former, I bet. But, ultimately, beauty must be made to speak for itself, and ugly fashion must be allowed to do the same. Until, that is, it becomes obscene... a question for another conversation.
May '10
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James Poulos, Ed.
... this fashion show [unerotic nudity alert about 5 slides in] Jul 10 at 7:50am
That is sooooooooo wrong!!
Jul '10
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James Poulos, Ed.
... Berlin, but this fashion show [unerotic nudity alert. · Jul 10 at 7:50am
by linking it you made it too easy for me. Thank you for that.