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The Daily Photoist: November 23, 2009
Urban Planner: November 23, 2009
hot pants (pl.n.):
1. a clothing item that’s neither hot nor pants
2. a clothing item that’s outlawed in most countries
3. a clothing item that's on par with short shorts
4. a piece of fabric (nylon, polyester, cotton, lycra, velour, terry cloth, etc.) that’s too small to become anything else
5. appropriately used in a sentence when answering the question: “where are your pants?”
According to Wikipedia, “the Spice Girls, especially Ginger Spice and Scary Spice revived the hotpants fashion in the 1990s.” As a wise man once said, “it’s like everything that’s gross is just a Spice Girl.”
NOTE: We also spotted a young woman wearing a hot pants one-piece wandering the streets of Toronto. Although our initial reaction was to scream “GROSS!”, we managed to save such comments until she was out of earshot.
photographer: shari k. location: Queen and Dufferin (by the El Amigo plaza)
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I think hot pants are actually hot. Sorry shari k, you missed the mark on this one. I declare this the summer of the hot pant!!
what? summer of the hot pant? should i buy you a pair of hot pants for your birthday?
What is this? Vice Magazine? Are you going to start making fun of homeless people next? Who will be the next easy target?
If only this place was more like VICE. Sigh.
Yeah, girls who wear hot pants and homeless people are, like, the same thing.
That girl totally walked past me when I was standing outside the Gladstone on Saturday!!
...and I thought "how brave" and my friend said "those are one of those outfits you see in magazines or on manequins and always wonder who wears them out on the street..."
There's no connection, David. It's just totally gawkish, mean-spirited and lazy to make fun of regular people on the street. VICE sucks so does PopFuel. Such low-brow humour.
It's kind of trashy, but I think it totally qualifies as hot (which was, i assume, the intention).
Avoiding being like VICE, and the making fun of regular people who are trying their best, is a very good thing.