I totally don't get the hate for capris

[Oeditpus Rex]

...unless they're the faux kind that flare at the ankles. :puke:


Hey, why not complete the look with a pair of clogs? :D

[Elidor]

1. It's a communist thing

Would Fidel Castro wear capris? I think not.

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. He once wore somethin' similar

Baseball pants.

:D

[pepperbear]

25. he needs a stylist...Olive drab and cigars? SO last year. n/t

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. I have nothing against capris

It's the gauchos having made a comeback am sorry to see.

And even worse, the polyester/knit gauchos :puke:



BUT!
I will make an exception if someone would get me a pair of gauchos like this!!

[WCGreen]

4. I saw a precious thing the other night...

Denim Capri's with three inch high cuffs with a slit up the side into the cuff with a little flower at the peak of the split...

Oh my, I said to myself, this designer just can't make up their mind about which trend to follow...

But alas, it did not matter...

One of the darlings that populate my fashion conscious suburb took the plunge and now, it will be all he rage...

[Whoa_Nelly]

7. Will she being wearing heels with that?

[WCGreen]

13. Oh yea, just like that....

Really wierd looking to me..

[Zookeeper]

16. I'm sorry....

that's just wrong. ('Just WRONG!)

:scared:

[Whoa_Nelly]

20. You are a smart woman

yup!

Good to know there are women who recognize bad taste :hi:

[KitchenWitch]

5. No gauchos for me

I would rather wear a skirt.

[Whoa_Nelly]

6. Yes...skirt or capris

NO Gauchos!

AND

NO Culottes or Skorts!!!!!
(re: culottes--hate ironing that damn pleat back in place, and skorts? :wtf: were the designers thinking???)

[Nicole]

8. I think the hate is because

more women in capris means less women in shorts. At least that's what some of my male friends hate about them. They blame capris for the absence of cut offs & short shorts. :rofl:

[Zookeeper]

17. Yes, but, would they end up complaining about....

40, 50 and 60 year old women wearing short shorts?

Sometimes I think we women can't win either way!

:hi:

[Nicole]

19. True enough.

I'm in the middle of that age group & I don't wear shorts anyway. But if I wanted to their complaining would NOT bother me. I'm over it. :rofl:

:hi:

[Whoa_Nelly]

21. You mean, they miss this?

:rofl:

[Nicole]

23. Of course they do!

Especially when worn with red heels. :rofl:

[Redstone]

9. They were too expensive for one thing, the interiors were cramped, and if you had the V-6 engine

you actually had to loosen the bolts on the motor mounts and lift the engine a few inches to change the two sparks plugs at the back of the engine.

I guess that's why those cars never sold that well here, though they were fairly popular in Europe.

Redstone

[JVS]

27. Somehow I was thinking you were talking about pants and wondering what a V6 meant...

in the context of tight-fitting pants for women. The ideas of camel-toe and hood bulge converged there for a moment.

[Redstone]

28. You mean the original post wasn't about MERCURY Capris?

Oops.

Redstone

[JVS]

29. she's got a V6 in her pants and it's roaring to go!

[Connonym]

10. they make stumpy girls like me look stumpier

hence the hate If I looked like Laura Petry it'd probably love them.

[LaraMN]

11. They're the bastard Agnostic of pants.

Do they want to be pants? Do they want to be shorts?
Why can't they commit?!

[greatauntoftriplets]

12. Exactly!!!

And despite my advanced age, I will choose shorts in warm weather. The public be damned!

[VelmaD]

14. I suppose they're ok if...

you're a Hobbit.

[unsavedtrash]

15. I had to google capri pants.

Never heard of them before. Interesting pants but not for my 6'0 frame.

[Kali]

18. if you are like me

you already have traumatic memory of being tall and too many UNINTENTIONAL pairs of capri pants, AKA flood pants, I think that is the real reason I don't care for them.

[Zookeeper]

22. That was why I never liked pedal pushers...

or the other previous incarnations of capri pants.

Somehow, this time around, they work for me.

:shrug:

[Critters2]

30. That's actually why I like 'em

I put on pants, think "Oh, no, too short again!" and then realize that I can wear 'em and people will think I MEANT them to be this short!!

Are they "flood pants" or are they capris? Only the garage sale I bought 'em from knows for sure!

[MsKandice01]

32. I can totally relate...

I'm 6'1" and I have extremely long legs (36" inseam) to boot. Even Tall pants aren't often long enough.

[Kool Kitty]

24. I like capris and cropped pants.

(Not the flared ones or gauchos, though. Ugly is ugly.) The reason I like them? I am 4'10" tall (ahem) and they fit me like full length pants, with no hemming. ;)

[Arugula Latte]

26. Audrey Hepburn could carry them off. Not many can.

The more I really look at them and think about it, the more I agree that they're not flattering. My mom gave me a few pairs, but I haven't worn them. The fashionistas say they do no one any favors.

[Kali]

31. they ARE better than bicycle shorts, but not much

:rofl: :rofl:

[Karenca]

33. They're not flattering at all.

Two of my friends (and they're tall and thin, so you'de think capris would look good on them) wear them all summer.
I think they look like their legs were cut in half.

[matcom]

34. ACK!!!

I shot a girl in Capris (just to watch her die) :D

[Arugula Latte]

35. In Reno, no less ... nt