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MarissaExplainsItAll
05/18/09

In reply to Morley Safer's Fashion Tips For Fall
How long before Ms. Wintour kills Safer?
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Pocahaunted
05/18/09

In reply to Morley Safer's Fashion Tips For Fall
I'm sorry but 'angry as they are emaciated' made me laugh so hard. And I love fashion, and think many models are beautiful in their ethereality.
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queenieinmanhattan
05/18/09

In reply to Morley Safer's Fashion Tips For Fall
Oh my god, I love how he snorts when she declares that anything that isn't clothing is an accessory. Really, Morley? Passing judgment? Methinks she knows the vocab here a bit better than you do, sire.

That said, is anything more appropriate in a piece on fashion than underminer-y asides? Methinks not.
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mepo - Robert Cornhole invented it
05/18/09

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Dear Advertisers, I am disgusted with the way old people are depicted on television. We are not all vibrant, fun loving sex maniacs. Many of us are bitter, resentful individuals who remember the good old days when entertainment was bland and inoffensive. The following is a list of words I never want to hear on television again. Number one: bra. Number two: horny. Number three: family jewels.
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andBegorrah
05/18/09

In reply to Morley Safer's Fashion Tips For Fall
Meanwhile Safer and Andy Rooney are huddled together in the fall-out shelter they've woven out of their own eyebrow hair and reinforced with anti-radiation sock garters, shaking their fists at the lot of us and clutching their pocket squares for dear life.

Bless them.
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Annabellie
05/18/09

In reply to Morley Safer's Fashion Tips For Fall
On the one hand, I found parts of this pretty offensive (like when he says that the clothing is fit for cadavers). On the other hand, I kind of love how he's just an asshole about everything.

I feel like he is the kind of person you would want sitting next to you at a dinner party, giving you a hilarious running commentary under his breath the whole night.
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Penny
05/18/09

@Annabellie: Totally!
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MegiEr
05/18/09

@Annabellie:

I found it kind of nice to have a person stand back from all that fashion craziness and be like "ummm this is kinda ridiculous".
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Annabellie
05/18/09

@Penny: Crochety old people are the best.
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MilointheMeadow
05/19/09

@MegiEr: Me too, and we can all say "Mr. Safer! How judgmental!" and stick our noses in the air but come on - like most of us haven't thought the Exact. Same. Things.
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greengrey
05/18/09

In reply to Morley Safer's Fashion Tips For Fall
I think it's the funnest thing ever when old men who don't know much about fashion try to talk about it.

The other day my dad randomly asked me "are double breasted blazers 'in'"?

Or when he scoffs over the prices of shoes/bags ("I could make that! Would people be dumb enough to spend $5,000 on it?!").

Or he'll be angered by hipsters ("The weirder they dress, the cooler they are. Why do they need to be ironic?"). More old men with no fashion know how need to start talking fashion, it's really entertaining.
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Grim Reaper of the Forest
05/18/09

@greengrey: I have the same questions about hipsters.
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baraqiel
05/18/09

In reply to Morley Safer's Fashion Tips For Fall
Luckily, MY grandfather knows better than to chime in on my fashion choices. Morley Safer's granddaughters are not doing their job, obviously.
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Penny
05/18/09

In reply to Morley Safer's Fashion Tips For Fall
Well, to be fair, Anna Piaggi is pretty campy. I just never thought it was a BAD thing.

As a lover of all things fashion, I am the first to admit that the high fashion industry is pretty damn ridiculous.
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