My objection to flip flops is primarily that I'm seeing them everywhere. I wouldn't wear them because I don't like shoes/sandals with the thing between the toes and I don't want my bare skin coming into contact with the sidewalk. ew.

But I dislike the constant thwap-thwap of people walking in them. And the majority of people seem to wear the rubber ones that, when I was a kid, we wore at the beach. And I really hate that they make almost everyone wearing them walk like they're in the last stage of pregnancy.

But, yes, pregnant ladies get an exemption ... for just about anything, including murder and bitch-slapping the annoying. And SoCal ... it's a different world out there ... and 3,000 miles away, so I don't care.

The shoes I would like to see banned from most public appearances are those mesh-topped Chinese sandals. I don't know if they're trendy outside of NYC, but here they are everywhere, and nobody (white) seems to realize that they are NOT OUTSIDE SHOES. They are SLIPPERS. They are what middle-aged Chinese women wear around the house to do laundry in. They are not meant to be paired with a cocktail dress!

Again I must ask for the pregnancy exception!

Always granted. If you are actually pregnant, you get to wear whatever the hell you want. Even caftans!

Again I must ask for the pregnancy exception! Empire-waisted peasant shirts are my friends these days - most maternity tops are ridiculously overpriced and nothing else fits over the belly.

They make EVERYBODY look pregnant! That's their problem!

Actually, this trend makes you look statistically NOT pregnant. That's sorta cool.

mesh-topped Chinese sandals. I don't know if they're trendy outside of NYC, but here they are everywhere, and nobody (white) seems to realize that they are NOT OUTSIDE SHOES.

Unsurprisingly, they're trendy here too. Mostly among the tourists, though.

1) This whole flowy, unstructured, over-the-hips top thing, especially the empire style. I have yet to see those kinds of tops truly flatter a woman with curves. I like empire, as long as there's structure underneath the bosom. These don't have it.

Heh. I'm wearing such a shirt right now, as a matter of fact.

That said, I don't like those shirts if they're in a fabric that's able to -- almost -- stand away from the body, rather than drape along it (NOT cling to it!), like gauze or even starched cotton, because it makes you look pregnant.

The shirt I'm wearing is a great stretchy jersey that drapes very well, and has a contrasting color band underneath the bosom.

So, really, it's not the kind that juliana dislikes. But her post made me giggle, since, superficially, I *am* wearing that kind of shirt, and it *does* go over my hips.

Oh, wait! Linky: [link] That's the exact shirt. God bless Target.

Ultra-low-rise jeans. These flatter no one. NO ONE!!!!!

Except those of us with really short legs and really short waists. They are a godsend to us since they don't come up to our belly buttons.

I am guaranteed to have one of those tops Juliana dislikes, and statistics lean towards it having puff sleeves. The puff sleeves probably look stupid with my embiggening delts, and for some reason I don't mind looking pregnant, if indeed I do.

I do hate wearing flip flops and wedges, though.

Ooo, Teppy, you may have given me a reason to go back into Target. I am not a fan of things that bring attention to my tits, but that shirt may work.

I'm wearing my Perky Goth t-shirt at the moment. Gilly the Perky Goth is always welcom on my bosom.

Except those of us with really short legs and really short waists. They are a godsend to us since they don't come up to our belly buttons.

Regular low-rise, yes. Ultra low-rise where you have to have a bikini wax to wear it in public? No.

I accidentally have wound up (online ordering of used things) with pants where the rise was low enough that I couldn't wear my ultra low rise panties without them showing.

Those would be the kind of pants in question.