Westerns?
As an adolescent i always wanted a long leather duster coat. For me they were the epitome of cool but being skint they were always well out of my price range. I would have even gone for a cheaper canvas one but never found one to my liking. As i got older this vague yearning for the coat never actually went away but i didnt do anything about it either.
Then one fateful day i spotted a bloke selling them on a market stall for quite reasonable prices. I hurried over with my credit card clutched in my hot sticky little hands. Yes they had one that would fit so i quickly tried it on..
I looked in the mirror and realised with a sinking heart that it made me look an absolute tit. Dusters look great if you are tall and skinny with razor sharp cheek bones and piercing eyes. Not if you are an overweight pudgy bloke in his 30's.

I did wear a leather cowboy hat for a while though...
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Sun 8 Nov 2015, 10:35, 10 replies)

leather fedoras are for Discworld IT autisms and paedophiles

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 8 Nov 2015, 12:25, closed)

^tggi

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Sun 8 Nov 2015, 12:26, closed)

I do like Discworld but i don't work in IT
I also don't find children attractive either. Your mum on the other hand....
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Wed 11 Nov 2015, 7:15, closed)

i had a similar problem with cowboy boots.
(terryhoosh remembers when this was all fields, Sun 8 Nov 2015, 15:04, closed)

Cowboy boots are for serial rapists and lorry drivers.
Which are much the same thing really.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 8 Nov 2015, 15:11, closed)

Its every lorry drivers dream
To have to deliver a bunch of roll end carpets. It makes disposing of dead hitch hikers and dismembered hookers so much less messy
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Wed 11 Nov 2015, 7:17, closed)

When I wore cowboy hat I was nicknamed Clit Eastwood.
Never again.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Sun 8 Nov 2015, 21:06, closed)

I've always wanted one of those.
I think they look comfortable and cosy, that or a leather fedora and a drover coat. Sadly though they're a bit too conspicuous and I don;t think they'd suit me.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Sun 8 Nov 2015, 22:23, closed)

I got one years ago for the same reasons.
Also looked like a tit.

It comes in handy for festivals though, as if the ground's a bit wet you can just sit on the coat.
( gone, Mon 9 Nov 2015, 10:37, closed)

I bought one of the collarless ones, haven't worn it in years
On the plus side, it's windproof, waterproof and low on friction, so you can slip out of crowded tube carriages easily

On the minus side, people feel compelled to shout at you in the street. Ranging from most to least popular: "Oi Neo!", "You are the one!", "Oi Dracula!", "Oi vicar!", "Peter Petrelli!" (in those few months when Heroes was on telly and people actually watched it), "Are you Batman?" and "Hey Van Helsing!"
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 10 Nov 2015, 12:56, closed)