Tights are STILL not pants.

Just thought I'd let you know.


Despite warning from retailers*, people are still wearing tights as pants. Last week at dinner at a casual Mexican restaurant, I saw no less than four girls in 5 minutes wearing what seems to be the "ah! It's below 60 in Atlanta so what do I wear!" outfit.

- Tights. Tights That Are NOT Pants but are in fact tights. Not leggings. TIGHTS. Leggings are opaque.
- Shirt that isn't tunic length. At least wear a tunic length shirt if you're wearing Tights that are NOT pants.
- Uggs over Tights That Are Not Pants.

*Yes, that is an American Apparel tag. I'm shocked as well.

Personally, I blame Nelly for pointing out the temperature of the room and suggesting how to alleviate the heat.

The other day, I was telling my friend about this blog and she told me this story:

"This may sound bad, but one time I went out to a club and I got really hot, so I just took my jeans off because I burning up. My shirt was kinda long so it worked...."

Now you're probably thinking, "Oh, you must be friends with Da Brat, JD. That's super cool. She has Fraggle Rock hair!" No, I am NOT friends with Da' Brat, but she has apparently had the same thought as my friend on at least one occasion.



If you want to try this at home, at least remove the jeans entirely before you skank it up. This just looks like a hasty return to the stage after a bathroom break.

...One step closer to pop culture!

I really think it's hilarious how many people I know have seen this blog and are now obsessed with shirtordress hunting. It makes me laugh, it makes me cry, it makes me think - where the hell is my book deal?

Writes S.Vincent:

"I was at a little basement soirée in NYC and saw this chick parading around in her shirt. Of course, I nearly lost my shit cause you were the first person I thought of. It was quite a small party and I wasn’t sure how I was going to snap a picture of this girl without looking like a total creep. Then whammy, the humiliation gods determined she was destined for web fame and provided a sparkler to distract her attention for countless minutes. It felt like fate. I could have taken sixty pics for the amount of time she was mesmerized by it, but I figure just one will do for now."





Thank you, humiliation gods!

It's a shirt, bitch!

Anyone catch Britney Spears's documentary on MTV last night? She went shopping with her assistant in one scene and they debated on whether or not she was trying on a shirt or a dress.

Britney: Sarah Jessica Parker could wear it as a dress
Asst: You're not Sarah Jessica Parker.
Britney: You don't think?
Asst: It's a shirt.
Britney: Okay, it's a shirt.

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She finally figured it out. We were worried...


I secretly looooove Britney. :)

Note to self: Tights are NOT leggings.

The following is an e-mail I received from a reader. I love that Shirt or Dress Spotting is catching on. If you have any funny stories, feel free to email them my way @
shirtordress@gmail.com...

Friday at my work (on a college campus) I saw the most egregious shirt v. dress crisis IN THE WORLD, and because you have this amazing blog dedicated to this exact topic, I felt that I should share:

amazing!? did she call my blog amazing?! yeah, that sounds about right.

A young woman was wearing what is WITHOUT A DOUBT a shirt paired with sheer black tights. She seemed to think that the tights solved the problem of her wearing a shirt as a dress, which, in the case of actual leggings, I might be willing to forgive her for, but in the case of SHEER NYLONS I can't. From the front this outfit just looked awkward (and weather inappropriate, as it's mid-November in Seattle), but when she passed me and I saw 1/3 of her ASS, unflatteringly covered by black sheer tights, I was horrified. If your messenger bag causes your shirt to ride up and expose your ass, you cannot under any circumstances try to pass it off as a dress. It's that simple.

SHEER NYLONS? In Seattle? At least they were not "nude" or "suntan." Yeah, I know all of the Leggs' shades. Also, I'm suspecting this chick is definitely not an "A" or "B" size.

So the moral of my anecdote is this, I guess: shirts worn as dresses must be paired with leggings or real pants. Tights are not an acceptable substitute.

Amen, sista'

That's all. I felt like you'd be the most sympathetic ear for this story. Also I should mention that I haven't gotten any work done since I started looking at pictures of SODs.

How funny! I haven't gotten any work done since I started writing it...

Yes. Let's all take a moment to reflect on the lesson learned from this lil' vignette just shared with you. Now, dear readers, go spread this lesson so that no one you know, love, and/or care about subjects an innocent bystander to this sort of atrociousness.


- JD