I am not amused.
As much as I look at the men who wear suspenders and long for the security that having my pants held up like lederhosen brings, I am not ready, just yet, to make that move.
The combination of my disappearing ass and my gravity-prone gut combine to push the belt down in front and not adequately hold it up in back, and if I shrug my hips and suck in my gut I can step out of my jeans like a bloated chippendale’s dancer.
So while I look at old films of Burl Ives and Robin Williams and think, wow, how cool would it be not to have to tuck my shirt in two hundred times a day, I’m damned if I’m gonna go there just yet. It will mean having resigned myself to yet another sign of having grown old, and I still have the littlest urge to resist.
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“It will mean having resigned myself to yet another sign of having grown old, and I still have the littlest urge to resist.”
Just give up. Resistance is futile.
Too bad, really, but them’s the facts.
Gerry N.
Huh… and I thought suspenders were merely a fashion statement from old guys living in a previous era where suspenders were fashionable.
Gee, Og… I’m sure learning alot from you these days… :)
Suspenders are to be worn under the coat and are not meant to be seen.
That’s why I still suffer with a belt for everyday wear. But I have suspenders for all my suits.
Try duct tape…
Or staples.
Yea!
Mr. B might be on to something there…
The Handyman’s secret weapon!
Suspenders work wonders especially when you are wearing a holster and the associated weight that it carries. 22 oz of Taurus PT-45 and eleven rounds of Federal Premium Hydro-shock.
When I need to get out of my pants in a hurry that would not be a good idea.
The staples I mean
Perhaps a day or year at a gym might help???
Yeah, right.
Join us, Og. It is your destiny.
NO! NO! AND NATHAN IS NOT MY FATHER!!!
A fac that should have him on his knees thanking G-D every single day of his life.
Plenty of young-ish hipster around Portland here wearing suspenders. I think it’s ironical or something.
I’ve been thinking about suspenders. But I want leather ones with a built-in shoulder holster and balancing mag pouches.
Leather ‘spenders? Last time I saw a pair of those, it was on a guy I know from the Panhandle of Idaho.
I live in the redneck end of Portland, thebastige, and I’m one of few Greshamites seen regularly in ‘spenders.
OG, a quick shrug out of the spenders, down go the jeans, and you can drop down onto the throne with as much force as the porcelain will take.
If’n you’re going to carry heavy hardware hanging by those spenders, DO NOT get the elastic kind, get the good workman’s kind. For light carry, elastic is fine.
Yer doin’ it wrong. Belt, suspenders, tucked in crew shirt/v-neck or beater neatly into the jeans or khakis, with the suspenders underneath the buttonable shirt as a ‘semi-formal’ cover garment in rural Americana. Actually buttoning the outer shirt is discretionaly.
Same applies for denim overalls. Can be work as the sole coering garment alone, or with a tank beater to cover the male chest wig or in formal occasions, the aforementioned ‘buttonable’ shirt work, again, as a cover wrap.evening jacket.
Workboots optional. I prefer high-quality Teva flip-flops…unless the area is known for pinworms or hookworms.
Regards,
Rabbit.
Sorry about that laswt post. I’m about 45 minutes into a slug of Ambien and my grammar keeps moving the keys on the keyboard.
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Hey, nobody has to sell me on the UTILITY of spenders, I lust after them daily. It’s the look that bugs me.I mean you can’t wax a turd- I’m not winning any beauty contests. But Wrapping duct tape on a turd benefits nobody.