Snowboarding
What Not To Wear (When Snowboarding)
We don’t editorialise on this site too often (okay, that’s not true), but I would like to discuss something with you today: Boarding Fashion.
Sometimes when I am snowboarding, I feel old. It isn’t because my knees and back are sore. It’s because I look at some of the styles out there and I think to myself, “What is wrong with kids today?”
My first grievance is when guys wear their snowboarding pants down really, really low. This looks dumb to me when they are wearing regular jeans or pants, but when it’s a pair of boarding pants, I think it’s just insane. Who would want snow in their crack when it is freezing cold outside? It also looks like they had an unfortunate toilet training accident.
My next pet-peeve is when kids wear a bandana on their face. Sure, it’s a decent way to prevent windburn, but I just think it looks goofy.
Finally, some kids choose to buy to the ugliest jackets and pants possible. The patterns come right from thirty-year-old couches. But I do respect their chutzpa (or moxie) in making that choice.
Do you have any fashion opinions you would like to share? Go for it.
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T-Shirts or Basketball Jerseys that are down to the knee.
Jeans. And skin tight pants.
I was thinking about listing skin tight flourescent coloured ski suits from the 80′s. But they are just so amusing, that I actually like seeing them.
Good additions!
It’s so funny that you should comment on this topic. I agree with the above comments. I actually have also been keeping a photo log of bad mountain fashion or just plain weirdness that I’ve seen on the hill. We’ll be adding to it a lot more this season, I am sure!
http://snowboard-women.com/wordpress/category/mountain-missteps/
Shayboarder has a bunch of gaper outfits that are a riot also. http://www.shayboarder.com/search/label/Gaper%20Hunt
I don’t get the bandana thing either. I have tried to wear one and it always just freezes into one solid chunk of ice on my face.
One style that I have seen emerging in Tahoe is dudes tucking their pants INTO their boots, army style. And its not the gapers, its guys that are totally shralping.
But the worst thing ever will always be the gaper gap.
Thank you so much for those links and comments! You have opened my eyes to a whole new world of awesome fun. Maybe I’ll start taking pics of gapers myself this season. I’ve never even heard of them before, so I guess I need to travel more.
while some trends like long t’s and tight pants are clearly ugly, its the lack of trend that makes some peoples outfits look like they were bled of all color that ever existed and tumbled on low with a bag of dust, like a cops lack of fashion, but on the hill
I don’t get the whole bandana style – for example, a lot of kids where them on the indoor slopes in the UK where there’s obviously no wind
Huge, oversized down jackets worn unzipped?
People should take a leaf out of this guy’s book. He’s got warm, practical clothing, it’s even an all in one so it’ll keep the snow out – and he can shred!
http://www.afterbang.co.uk/2008/09/is-that-gorilla.php
Gavin, thanks so much for that clip. The furless bum and beer belly are hilarious, and that guy can shred (that big head seems like it would throw off most people’s balance -respect).
I must say, this has been my favourite post so far. The links and comments you guys have provided are awesome.
I don’t get it either, but to each his own.
As a young male snowboarder, who wears baggy pants, with a baggy jacket, with a tall T-shirt hanging out the bottom, and a balaclava, I’m obviously the minority blog poster, and the aim of this blog.
This is the style, the fashion, and just because it’s different to what you wear and what you think is ‘right’ I don’t believe I should be being told “what not to wear”.
I’d rather look like every other “kid” out there, and thought to be a sheep, than look like those outdated gapers!
Nick, ther post and any comments are intended as attacks on anyone.
But just as people have the right to wear whatever they want, others have the right to dislike it. As long as we do not get personal, no one should get hurt.
There must be a happy medium between, mountain thugs and gapers!