In reply to TobyA:
> (In reply to Robert Durran)
> You can get plenty of stretchy jeans from high street shops Robert.
Indeed. My default non-work wear is stretchy black jeans from Asda at under a tenner a pair (with the added satisfaction of knowing that I'm keeping a Philippino child in gainful employment). I wouldn't wear them climbing though because, as I said, I would need to be well paid to look like a posing knob.
> Do you wear specs?
Don't get me started on glasses. Well, ok you have, so here goes:
The evil purveyors of "fashion" (masquerading to the naive/stupid as art) change the shape of glasses every couple of years and then subtly promote bullying so that, if you havn't thrown away perfectly optically adequate glasses and spent at least a hundred pounds on a new pair of the curreently "in" shape, you get laughed at by pointless morons behind your back, or even to your face. Even I (and I'm not proud of this) succumb to this sort of pressure.
> If so mixing the skinny jeans with some thick horn-rimmed glasses and some ironic facial hair could be a completely new look for you? People will be presuming you're from Brooklyn in no time at all.
Do you think all those American climbers with ridiculous designer goatees are actually being ironic? I had always assumed they were just complete dicks.