I got it from Ross for $13!!!

5/8/2008 12:35:17 PM

i have started to buy that bag from ross about 2938749823748923 times

5/8/2008 12:36:25 PM

i'm confused about all the talk of madras being a new fad

5/8/2008 12:36:34 PM

I need a new tote bag like I need a hole in my head...but $13 may win!!!

Working at the crew enticed me to buy like 5 tote bags a season haha

5/8/2008 12:37:43 PM

I had to look up what madras was on wikipedia and found this:

Quote :

"The fabric is mentioned many times in the S.E. Hinton book The Outsiders as a favored clothing worn by the Socs."

Maybe people don't like it because those guys were douchebags.

5/8/2008 12:38:54 PM

Those pictures that LivinProof78 posted kinda make me wanna spit e-game at her.

[Edited on May 8, 2008 at 12:41 PM. Reason : ]

5/8/2008 12:39:20 PM

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"I think that plaid shorts are fairly ugly myself but hey if people wanna wear them, whatever"

5/8/2008 12:39:21 PM

please to not confuse madras with plaid, they are in fact different.

Plaid can be cool,

madras, not so much. Abercrombie and American Eagle would have you think otherwise though.

5/8/2008 12:39:54 PM

^^^that counts as e-game, weak e-game, but e-game nonetheless.

[Edited on May 8, 2008 at 12:40 PM. Reason : .]

5/8/2008 12:40:19 PM

there is no "g" in my name!

5/8/2008 12:41:02 PM

Madras is a type of plaid (that originated in India btw)

so how to confuse, please tell me?

[Edited on May 8, 2008 at 12:43 PM. Reason : throwin facts left n right]

5/8/2008 12:42:07 PM

Sorry for the extra g, I'm not usually one to copy and paste.

[Edited on May 8, 2008 at 12:43 PM. Reason : and what e-game isn't weak? Spitting game on the internet isn't exactly suave]

5/8/2008 12:42:26 PM

this is so last summer

some look good some are ugly

depends on how many other fratty accessories you are wearing at the time

keep it low key

5/8/2008 12:43:54 PM

^^you're crazy


my e-game is flawless




[Edited on May 8, 2008 at 12:44 PM. Reason : ^only if last summer was 1956]

5/8/2008 12:44:04 PM

yeah...it is inherently lame

5/8/2008 12:44:27 PM

^^^^^ true, I guess I mean it in the sense that most retail places (and people who don't know the true definition) define madras..as in the patchwork shit of different plaid patterns.

[Edited on May 8, 2008 at 12:46 PM. Reason : .]

5/8/2008 12:44:35 PM

nice troll thread, alias

5/8/2008 12:47:12 PM

5/8/2008 12:47:32 PM

that we do...that we do

5/8/2008 12:48:30 PM

<3 livin and diva. the only people that realize madras was not, in fact, invented by abercrombie and fitch last summer. and that madras is a type of plaid. geeeeez people. i guess i'm the only one who has parents that haven't purchased new clothes since like 1965.

5/8/2008 1:06:18 PM

Fuck plaid shorts, I'm a kilt wearing troll on this thread.

5/8/2008 1:09:59 PM

Quote :

"I got it from Ross for $13!!!"

because the assholes who were on the front of this obnoxious trend stopped buying them 3 years ago

5/8/2008 1:18:12 PM

Good thing I look cool, no matter what.

5/8/2008 1:20:20 PM

hey shawna...just remember...

you would have looked cool even back in 1956 when people wore the same plaid that was so over last summer and started being trendy 3 years ago

5/8/2008 1:22:34 PM

no, its a good thing you don't care what kind of asshole you look like

5/8/2008 1:23:53 PM

Quote :

"case in point JCASHFAN has worn carhartts and plain brown ropers and overalls forever....if it became the fashion next week to wear those things...he would stop...and that's just dumb"

hey now . . . I'm branching out, and it is safe to say that those things will never come into fashion, so I should be safe.


Oh, and madras kicks ass but it took me a while to warm up to it. That being said, I saw a bunch of people wearing madras this weekend . . . yeah, I'm already getting that urge to put my shorts away Although, there was this one old guy rocking full madras pants with a polo and some crazy joakleys.

7/9/2008 8:41:36 AM

i repeat! madras is not a new fad!!! if you put something away when it becomes trendy then you should have put your madras shorts away in like 1942.

anyway, i wasn't sure if i liked madras either but i think i like madras bermuda shorts (another "new" fad). but i don't think can wear bermuda shorts

7/9/2008 8:45:19 AM

they would be pants on you

7/9/2008 8:50:57 AM

yeah, they came back in the 70s too. Madras is definitely comfortable, especially when it is truly thin madras.

I saw a nice pair of slacks at Brooks Brothers the other week. I might get them when they go on sale this fall.

7/9/2008 8:53:06 AM

^^ haha i know

^ yea i like madras better for boys than girls. well since it started as men's apparel anyway. and i always think it looks good on other people. i don't think it is really my style. but i do like bermuda shorts

7/9/2008 8:54:19 AM

I'm a huge fan!!! Madras on boys makes me

We always had a lovely madras blazer when I worked at J.crew. I was always sad I never bought it! I do love my little summer handbag tho

7/9/2008 8:56:27 AM

id rather rock a pair of "Jams"

7/9/2008 8:56:40 AM

Oh snap!!! I used to have TMNT jams

gunzzie...anything you wear makes me

7/9/2008 8:57:49 AM

my aunt used to make fake jams for me


and my dad was telling me about his madras shirt that he wore in high school....in 1965

7/9/2008 9:08:38 AM

In my experience, Madras are only worn (or drunk) by people who are gay.

7/9/2008 10:03:17 AM

I like plaid anything.

7/9/2008 10:07:07 AM

Quote :

"Oh, and madras kicks ass but it took me a while to warm up to it. That being said, I saw a bunch of people wearing madras this weekend . . . yeah, I'm already getting that urge to put my shorts away"

I'm still shocked that you even started wearing it in the first place.

But you have to admit, you're fucking excited about the new bow tie

7/9/2008 10:28:59 AM

Quote :

"I think that plaid shorts are fairly ugly myself but hey if people wanna wear them, whatever."

I do own a pair of sperrys though. I like the way they look/feel, I'll probably keep wearing them even when they are out of style.

7/9/2008 10:51:15 AM

I like these shorts. I don't wear them all that often and I'm not really hugely into fashion, but I think they're pretty nifty.

7/9/2008 11:11:09 AM

i dig'em

but i'm comfortable looking like a dork in public

7/9/2008 11:21:39 AM

eh, not a fan, I don't mind them, but I wouldn't wear them.

7/9/2008 12:25:07 PM

Hater tots


hahahahahhahaa


I have a pair of plaid bermudas. I love them, but I had forgotten about them until this thread. I can't wait to see the shorts Mama bought me today!

7/9/2008 12:52:02 PM

Quote :

"you're fucking excited about the new bow tie"

Oh yes, the madras bow tie was probably one of the singular greatest purchases I've ever made.

7/9/2008 4:14:00 PM

7/9/2008 4:17:30 PM

nothing's funnier than what WASPs think is cool

7/9/2008 4:18:58 PM

nothing?

7/9/2008 4:22:27 PM

Quote :

"WASP love it 356 up, 73 down hate it 1) stands for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. 2) people who usually come from privileged background, typically in the New England area 3) abbreviation for Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, and Pomona (the top four Liberal Arts Colleges in the nation. Strangely, those colleges are full of WASPs themselves) "

i kinda agree, and laugh at those people because they don't really know what's up

[Edited on July 9, 2008 at 4:24 PM. Reason : ok]

[Edited on July 9, 2008 at 4:24 PM. Reason : not that i do, but i have a better idea i guarantee]

7/9/2008 4:23:46 PM

Quote :

"nothing's funnier than what WASPs insert ethnic group here think is cool"

Seriously, this could apply to rural black men who wear lime green suits to church on Sunday, or Mexicans who hang those frilly things in front of their sun visors, or or anything popular in Japan

7/9/2008 4:27:23 PM