I learned something very important as I stood outside the DMV on Rockaway Boulevard in Queens yesterday waiting for the doors to open: Men dress bad. Okay, I can qualify it if it makes you feel better. Most men dress bad. Most straight men dress bad. Most straight men who are standing in line at a DMV after just rolling out of bed dress bad. But, I think the first one sticks. Beyond "where in the world is your ass" jeans, the big look yesterday morning was the egg-shaped leather jacket tooled with intricate designs of favorite sports clubs (the Jets), past-times (street cards), or tourist attractions (the Statute of Liberty). It doesn't work on women, either, like on this old NY Times image of Anna Sui. Unless snow globe is the fashion statement you want to make, straight lines flatter.

Bill says: Do they think that this stuff looks good? Do they think that it makes them look good? Are they serious? There is no sense in which wearing a white leather jacket depicting a street corner crap game is going to make you look sexy or menacing, or encourage anyone to take you seriously. Someone should tell them. And isn't the point of jeans to make your butt look good? Even for guys? This wasn't a belt the jeans at the top of the thigh intentional gangsta look, either. There had to be a string of at least forty, 30+ year old men who looked like schlubs, and, oddly, alike in uniform from the I Don't Give a Shit What I Look Like club.