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sbj405 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 04:53 PM
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Poll question: Fashion police: What's your take on the poncho trend?


Followed a link that said "Friends don't let friends wear ponchos" to this article http://slate.com/id/2108192

I have noticed a lot of women wearing them.
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mr_hat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 04:55 PM
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1. Real ponchos or Sears ponchos?
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parasim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 05:01 PM
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14. Now THAT brings back some fond memories...
even more so than the poncho itself!

viva la poncho!
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mark11727 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 05:06 PM
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19. We did it 'till we were "un-con-cho"...
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 07:21 PM
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41. and it was useless anymore!
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Kikosexy2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 04:55 PM
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2. Que...
poncho loco eres!
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AndyTiedye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 04:55 PM
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3. El Nino is Coming
Ponchos are going to rule.
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trumad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 04:57 PM
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7. Do you see the words up above saying DU Lounge.
Edited on Mon Oct-18-04 04:58 PM by trumad
Perhaps you being new to DU gives you an excuse for being oblivious to how DU works, but you still should have some manners.
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 04:59 PM
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10. Gotta agree, trumad.
Sheesh! It's the lounge! I love it when the thought police pop out on DU and tell us what we should or shouldn't post.

:eyes:
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 05:00 PM
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12. yeah there are a lot of rude people around here today
What's up with that? Burgeoning election tension? Their being rude won't help.
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Terran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 05:00 PM
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11. Stop shouting
You're posting in the Lounge--silly shit is what we do here. Calm down.
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Amaya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 05:04 PM
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17. GEEZ...
lighten up :)
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 05:06 PM
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20. ...Francis.
:D
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geniph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 05:19 PM
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24. Anybody calls me Francis,
I'll kill 'em!

:D
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 05:21 PM
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27. Lee Harvey! I wanna party with *you*, cowboy...
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geniph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 05:22 PM
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29. I have that flippin' movie memorized
thanks to my ex-husband, who watched it approximately once a week. It does have some very quotable lines, though.

The ESL class' lesson still cracks me up.
"Sumbeetch! Sheet!"
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 05:27 PM
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31. Harold Ramis was an understated gem in that movie...
I like him in everything, however.
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trumad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 04:56 PM
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5. Depends on the Poncho.
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Flaxbee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 05:25 PM
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30. gotta agree..
I have a very pretty wool one a friend brought back from Bangladesh and it most certainly does not look like I cut a hole in the middle of the bathroom carpet and pulled it over my head (as illustrated above).

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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 04:56 PM
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6. I happen to love them
One of the very few trends that I liked to see return from my youth.
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slappypan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 04:57 PM
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8. a fashion trend befitting a banana republic
:eyes:
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 04:57 PM
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9. My only thought is, "Wonder what she's hiding under there?"
I think they are stupid looking when worn in the summer. Serve no purpose in the summer--can understand wearing one in the winter, but in the warmer months it looks like a dumb "wanna be like everyone else" fad.
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liontamer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 05:21 PM
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28. I wore them in the summer to avoid excess sun exposure
I like wearing skimpy clothes, but I hate exposing too much skin to the midday sun.
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dave123williams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 05:00 PM
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13. It's as if Pashmina has come full circle....

Ponchos aren't exactly new...
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 05:02 PM
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15. All fashion trends are for suckers
Edited on Mon Oct-18-04 05:04 PM by Richardo
Sincerely,

GeezerSpeakstheTruth :)

(Inspired by Moe Sizlak: "Call this an unfair generalization if you will, but old people are no good at everything!")
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gollygee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 05:03 PM
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16. I had a poncho when I was a little girl
I didn't even like them then!
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 05:04 PM
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18. Unless you're trying to hide a pregnancy...
Please don't wear these things. They are not flattering.
Duckie
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 05:07 PM
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21. Pink Ponchos
the stores are over flowing with them! Yuck
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LisaM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 05:07 PM
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22. I think they are ugly and they make you look MORE pregnant
Those women wearing them on the sitcoms weren't fooling anyone.

Plus, they all look used. They get all ratty or something - they are too small for the people wearing them (my main complaint) but they also look shoddy.
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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 05:12 PM
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23. do serapes count as ponchos?
I like the Clint Eastwood look.
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Twillig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 05:59 PM
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32. I don't think it's nice you laughin'...
Edited on Mon Oct-18-04 06:00 PM by Twillig
You see, my poncho don't like people laughin'.
He gets the crazy idea that you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize--like I know you're gonna......
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liontamer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 05:20 PM
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25. I like them and wear them
I think people who are overly against any fashion trend are a bit odd. Fashion is just supposed to be fun. My ponchos are fun, so I like them
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geniph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 05:20 PM
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26. I friggin' hated 'em the first time around
they were ugly in the 70's and they're ugly now! EWWWWWW! I'm seeing people in the multicolored crocheted versions - with fringe - that look like the cat puked on Gramma's afghan and someone threw it over their head. YUCK!
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 06:06 PM
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33. I vote for
don't care one way or the other
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tjdee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 06:08 PM
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34. Is it a sweater or a shirt? A SWEATER OR A SHIRT????????
Do you wear them outside only, and then take them off indoors, or are they like a blazer??

CONFUSION!!

I try to block them out when I see them, because I know next year no one's going to be caught dead wearing one.

Now, UGGs, oh my sweet babies....
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amazona Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 06:09 PM
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35. they're unattractive
If you have a bust and a waist, it makes you look like you don't have a waist -- in other words, fat. The young lady in the photo, who I bet actually has a nice figure in real life or she wouldn't be a model, looks shapeless through her torso.

I haven't seen anyone wearing them since the late 60s or (maybe) early 70s and don't seriously expect to, since we don't get many cold days down here and it would hardly be worth buying for maybe a couple days of cool weather before it passes from fashion.
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tjdee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 06:16 PM
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36. Psst, it's Jennifer Aniston.
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rbnyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 06:19 PM
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37. Great for breastfeeding...
...but I wish they weren't so trendy now. I'll end up not wearing one because of that, even tho I really want to.
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SarahB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 06:56 PM
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38. There's a picture of me in a poncho from 1977 somewhere.
My first day of Kindergarten. I have my Dorothy Hamel haircut and my rainbow poncho. :scared: When I saw them back in the stores, this was what I remembered. They should have stayed in the 70's where they belong. :thumbsdown:
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samplegirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 06:57 PM
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39. looks like a laura bush trend
No thanks
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curse10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 07:20 PM
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40. ponchos are the devil!
blech!
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