12. Failure to own a full-length mirror or use it.

13. Failure to discern between "different" and "unique".

14. Inability to match one's level of dress to one's peers (wearing morning dress to Burger King, etc.).

15. Inability to figure out what's important (fit, how the outfit looks) and what isn't (period correctness, idiotic details like slips for vests, brand names, shell cordovan).

16. Mistaking knowing a few things about clothes for some powerful social bond that entitles you to fawning deference from your friends and clothing salesmen; this leads to all kinds of bizarre outfits and socially gross attitudes.

17. Constant bargain-hunting, which means that they rarely get even the boring clothes that they're looking for because they've spent all their money on discontinued Italian socks on Sierra Trading Post.

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19.  Inability to understand that the adage "it's not what you wear but how you wear it", which inevitably seems to lead to a gathering of blatantly socially awkward people fawning over other socially awkward people and failing to see that while, in some cases, the clothes may even be right, the overall impression falls short of Fred Astaire, Sean Connery or whomever they choose to emulate (as they inevitably do), and just screams "awkward!!!"

The only analogy I have for this is the white, awkward suburban kids who decided rap and the culture it is part of is the "be all end all" of youth culture, and that they desperately want to belong.  They don't and are laughed at by "the real deal", and still don't get it - why can they wear this shit and be cool, while I'm still a geek even with all the bling bling my mommy bought me?"  From a sociological perspective, the mindset seems to be the same, which is rather troubling.  No, son, you can't be a rap star, and no, you can't be a member of the British royal family.

22. Their points of reference: photos taken in dingy, poorly lit bathrooms (preferably public).

26. A predilection for the symptons of asperger syndrome either by a true affliction or by proxy.

27. Having traded train spotting diesal locomotives for spotting of Alden's #8's.

28. Latent submissive homosexuality masquerading as homophobia.

^Classic. A real man is constantling battling for his top dog position and will never achieve ultimate supremecy (unless he marries S&M slave and then there's all the mind play non-fucks which is quite hard work) only a state of war all the time.

The real man seeks not the approval of his purchases, quite the contrary, and preferably the missis/us's never knows and continues in her state of bewildered enchantment. And even if she does know, what does her opinion and approval matters?

If it does, you are truly fucked.

31.) reading and posting, on men's clothing foris

33. Constantly changing their outfits like a pack of chavvy birds.