my girlfriend bought a Poncho :(

[Thirteen]

Is That a Real Poncho?
The hideous new trend afflicting America.
By Amanda Fortini
Posted Thursday, Oct. 14, 2004, at 10:46 AM PT


 
Even Jennifer Aniston has fallen prey
 
Fashion crimes, like many other crimes, begin innocently enough. A few influential designers send a quirky and impractical article of clothing down the runway; high-fashion magazines enthusiastically push it; a celebrity is photographed wearing it; lower-end lines begin mass-producing it; suddenly, women are buying it in shrieking colors and synthetic fabrics, and what started as a harmless act of whimsy has become a widespread aesthetic offense. So it has gone with the poncho—that rectangular piece of material resembling a small blanket, with a hole in the center for your head. The style, now at its apogee, appears both in mainstream stores like Ann Taylor, the Gap, J.C. Penney, and Macy's (which offers 43 options in a ponchos-only department) and in high fashion magazines like Vogue, in which New York socialite Plum Sykes sports a fringed, yellow, off-the-shoulder number, and Bazaar, where a $1,500 Chloe "horse blanket poncho" is deemed one of the season's "must-haves." Recently, during a 20-minute walk in Midtown Manhattan, I counted 18 ponchos—averaging nearly one per minute. Ponchos have become this season's Ugg boots: unsightly and overexposed.

Is there anything to like about the poncho? Apparently the look is "comfortable and comforting." Some writers have said that we're in a post crop-top and low-rise jeans moment, in which women are demurely wrapping up rather than baring all. Happily, these fans claim, the poncho "covers all the right areas," hiding the most worrisome midsection figure flaws. They also say that the sleeveless poncho is easy to whip on and off as the temperature demands; and some propound the mitten philosophy—arguing that ponchos are warmer than coats because they trap heat by keeping the arms close to the body. A recent article in the New York Times "Circuits" section, which recounts the author's quest to find a poncho for her daughter online, sums up the garment's appeal even among adult women, "[T]he poncho is popular simply because it's so easy to wear. It goes with everything. One size fits all. It's never too tight."

All of these arguments can be dismissed as Poncho Myths. First of all, mature, non-sweatpants-wearing adults can agree that security blankets are supposed to be "comforting"; clothes are not. Ponchos are not "comfortable," either. Try carrying a purse while wearing one: hang the purse over the poncho, the ample underarm fabric bunches up; carry it beneath and it creates a tumorlike protrusion. As for the mitten theory, the real way a poncho resembles a mitten is that both items partially incapacitate their wearer—try fixing your hair, say, while negotiating the poncho's billowing folds. Finally, in response to the easy-to-wear line of reasoning, I have only one question: How hard is it, really, to button and unbutton a coat?

 

[white Boy]

Ponchos have become this season's Ugg boots: unsightly and overexposed.

damn they are ugly.. girls are on crack wearin those (the boots .. & ponchos too)


btw..imo.. the thing about fashion is that 1s a trend is set.. nomater how ugly.. if it gets out.. its liek a disease.. esp for females.. and if they see a famous person wearing it.. they think its good lookin...

[eS El Duque]

who watches King Of Queens (I do )...that dudes fat ass wife wears em (and LOOKS FAT IN THEM!)...wait, she is fat

[P Nelson]

BREAKING NEWS : Shes not gonna wear it...

Yeah, the weather is getting too cold, so she can not really wear it, I saw her today, I was like.. Wheres the poncho? She then told me it was too cold and thatt she kind of only bought it for one day!! WHOOO!

[Sikotic™]

Just set the shit on fire.

now there's an idea, if you still have that hideous pink shirt, set that shit a blaze. I hope to god you were on drugs or were paid to wear that shirt. Shits hilarious

Real men wear pink....that's all I gots ta say.

BREAKING NEWS : Shes not gonna wear it...

Yeah, the weather is getting too cold, so she can not really wear it, I saw her today, I was like.. Wheres the poncho? She then told me it was too cold and thatt she kind of only bought it for one day!! WHOOO!

 
Let's celebrate

[P Nelson]

  Thanks for the support yall, now its another happy end for a dark chapter of our controversial love story