V-neck=too much neck.

Too long for a Facebook status update and potentially too polarizing a comment.  Probably too short for a blog posting but who cares.  It's my blog and only like 3 people read it.

I came to a fashion conclusion the other night.  I have these a lot actually.  Like on my run the other morning, when a roadie passed me wearing white lycra bike pants and a white lycra jersey. Men and skin-tight white is a combo that never should've happened and I think my retinas detached ever so slightly at the sight of it.  But that's another topic.

I know it's hipster/indie/emo/rock 'n' roll and totally original, but v-neck tee shirts on guys should also never happen.  That's not to say that the v-neck UNDER tee while actually being used in this fashion is included.  The Tall One owns about 4 dozen of these things and wears them under nice shirts for work.  I see them out and about and I'll sum it up like this- I just don't need to see that much of your neck.  And I don't know how to rationalize the fact that if you're not wearing a shirt at all that the amount of exposure then is not as creepy as an upside-down triangle exposing flesh and possibly chest hair.  Maybe because if someone is sans shirt, they are (Lord willing) in a setting where this is appropriate, like the beach or pool or the park playing ball.  But catching man decolletage at like church or something- kind of creepy.

And there's no discrimination here.  I don't care if you are Mystic Tanned out and hit the gym weights like it's your job or you are the poster child for skinny/scrawny/pasty indie rockers worldwide.  A v-neck tee does not look good skin tight or hanging off your skin and bones, the same color as Malibu Barbie or "the sunshine bores the daylights out of me" translucent white.

It's like the early 2000's version of the 70's disco style- polyester shirt unbuttoned down to the belly button.  All we need is some chains and medallions and we're set.

Now I'm creeped out again.  Visions of man v-necks, dancing in my head...