I've been linked to way too many bad prom outfits, so the Zootux actually looks quite reasonable to me. Most teen boys look really bad in rented formal wear anyway, even if it's Armani. They don't have the maturity to pull it off. You might as well go for something fun, I say.
It's all about choices, Faith. The ones we make, and the ones we don't. Oh, and the consequences. Those are always fun.
Angelus ,'Smile Time'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
kat perez - Feb 01, 2005 11:26:25 am PST #2915 of 10002
"We have trust issues." Mylar
Tom Scola - Feb 01, 2005 11:27:14 am PST #2916 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
He's not my boss, thank Joss, but I do have to interact with him and his lackeys quite often.
You would think that having one of his employees fired for gross incompetence would affect his hiring strategy, but no.
§ ita § - Feb 01, 2005 11:28:05 am PST #2917 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You might as well go for something fun, I say
I watched a cousin of mine shop for a prom suit, and I'm totally against the fun. One in a hundred teen guys seems to have a sense of sartorial fun that I'd have stood next to at 18.
What with my dating history and lack of being in the US at 18, it was pretty win win.
sarameg - Feb 01, 2005 11:30:01 am PST #2918 of 10002
We can't decapitate major crazy smartasses?
Hey, he's my brother. I can (and have in the past, really really wanted to, but...he's better now.)
He actually owned this horrible purple pimp suit. It was mainly worn as a Halloween costume but got dug out for several school functions just to exasperate the teachers. It was really tacky.
Betsy HP - Feb 01, 2005 11:30:56 am PST #2919 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I like the zootux.
Nutty - Feb 01, 2005 11:30:57 am PST #2920 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
What kat says is true. I have met very few boys under, say, 25, who could look comfortable in a tuxedo, or even a suit. Partly I think it is the skinniness factor, i.e. many boys look too small for their clothes even when they are in the right size; but partly, it is just that they aren't wearing their own clothes, and it shows.
Now, I knew a kid in the 8th grade who had his own tailored suit, and wore it to a school function once. He looked like a tiny mafioso, and the suit absolutely suited him (I mean, except inasmuch as it made him look like a mafioso).
amych - Feb 01, 2005 11:33:17 am PST #2921 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
We can't decapitate major crazy smartasses?
It would be suicidal, in this group.
Maria - Feb 01, 2005 11:33:50 am PST #2922 of 10002
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Lovely. The Tainted Love earworm has been replaced by Cherry Poppin' Daddies' Zoot Suit Riot.
Toe-tapping is in progress.
§ ita § - Feb 01, 2005 11:36:55 am PST #2923 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
This is where my lack of acculturation serves me well. Aside from the narrowly avoided disaster of that one cousin, the prom stuff I've seen has either been HAWT (nothing skinny about this dude), or on TV, so it was okay.
Would you say that the teenaged girls look better in formal wear than the boys? Perhaps it's because they're less funny.
brenda m - Feb 01, 2005 11:37:14 am PST #2924 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I'm a fan of a good zoot suit, but that's not one.
I'll take the earworm, though.