Or is he wearing a dashiki--or is it just some sort of weird big shirt?
It doesn't look so bad with the pants, whatever it is. But what do you call what he's wearing?
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Or is he wearing a dashiki--or is it just some sort of weird big shirt?
It doesn't look so bad with the pants, whatever it is. But what do you call what he's wearing?
by Anonymous | reply 36 | June 10, 2021 1:48 AM |
Looks like a caftan to me.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 8, 2021 5:32 AM |
It's a big weird shirt. It's not long enough to be a caftan,
by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 8, 2021 6:52 AM |
I like it
by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 8, 2021 7:12 AM |
Lane Bryant would call it a tunic blouse.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 8, 2021 7:20 AM |
He needs large hoop earrings.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 8, 2021 7:23 AM |
Mini caftan with a tuck that says, "all eyes on my low-hangers!"
by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 8, 2021 7:25 AM |
He accessorizes well.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 8, 2021 7:41 AM |
That’s a dashiki.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 8, 2021 7:55 AM |
I would call it unfortunate.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 8, 2021 9:13 AM |
Tunic
by Anonymous | reply 10 | June 8, 2021 9:52 AM |
It's a My First Caftan, starter model. Soon he'll be enjoying the billowing folds, comfort and freedom that only a caftan provides!
by Anonymous | reply 11 | June 8, 2021 10:03 AM |
He can’t graduate to full caftan, R11; he needs pants due to the sweaty thighs that chafe.
A true caftan requires thigh gap and only gaunt queens can really make them work.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | June 8, 2021 10:15 AM |
He's, um, presentable.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | June 8, 2021 11:31 PM |
Its billowing roominess could comfortably hide a multitude of dieting sins!
by Anonymous | reply 14 | June 8, 2021 11:38 PM |
[quote] A true caftan requires thigh gap and only gaunt queens can really make them work.
AU CONTRAIRE!
by Anonymous | reply 15 | June 8, 2021 11:46 PM |
It may have started out as a hospital gown given to him during COVID, and he just kept it. Some are more fashionable than the white or baby blue ones you typically see.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | June 9, 2021 12:59 AM |
I suspect there’s a ponytail back there.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | June 9, 2021 2:45 AM |
It's caftan-esque.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | June 9, 2021 3:04 AM |
It's cultural appropriation, is what it is.
AND IT'S MURDER!!!!!
by Anonymous | reply 19 | June 9, 2021 3:08 AM |
Turn in your gay card, OP. In no way is this a caftan.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | June 9, 2021 3:12 AM |
At least the stripes are going in a flattering direction.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | June 9, 2021 4:02 AM |
Is that a Datalounger? I've never seen one in the wild before.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | June 9, 2021 4:21 AM |
It's a shent! I wish I could have my shents cut looser and lower in the back, but they tend to, uh, billow at the most inappropriate times.
* fnart *
by Anonymous | reply 23 | June 9, 2021 4:50 AM |
Maybe it used to be caftan, but someone decided to put their expert alteration and sewing skills to good use after one of the house cats trashed the bottom.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | June 9, 2021 5:12 AM |
[quote] Turn in your gay card, OP. In no way is this a caftan.
Well, then you['d better be able to explain what it is.
I'm waiting!
by Anonymous | reply 25 | June 9, 2021 5:35 AM |
He bought that mail order from an International Male Summer Catalog some 25-30 years ago.
Of course, it looked much, much better on the hot male model who was wearing it as a beach cover-up and flashing his bikini-style swimsuit.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | June 9, 2021 7:04 AM |
I'd wear it
by Anonymous | reply 27 | June 9, 2021 7:06 AM |
How can anyone explain what it is, OP? It is whatever you project upon it. It exists within the intersection of the real, the imaginary, and the symbolic. It is everything. It is nothing.
To me, it’s the end product of a Sewing for Beginners class. Everyone else made their scrubs top without fuss but Frank insisted on adding dropped shoulders and lengthening the body and sleeves.
He changed his mind several times; put everyone on the spot by demanding the truth about how fat it made him look; and mumbled, cursed, and slammed his pincushion as he tried to get the point of the neckline perfectly centered on the middle stripe.
Fraught. That’s what it is to me.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | June 9, 2021 7:31 AM |
A caftan falls to midcalf or the ankles OP.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | June 9, 2021 3:23 PM |
It could also be a nightshirt that he forget to take off when he got up that morning. They usually go to about the knees.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | June 9, 2021 8:05 PM |
It's just big ole shirt thing that looks comfortable.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | June 9, 2021 10:04 PM |
... or a maternity blouse that will fit during the entire pregnancy.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | June 9, 2021 10:36 PM |
It was a mini-caftan, popular in the mid-60s, though the photographer convinced him to put jeans on and tuck the back half in.
Maybe it's my privilege showing, but I felt bad for him that he was 57, didn't own a car and was living in a rental in New Jersey and looking for a roommate to share the space with.
Though the apartment was nicely furnished, at least the parts that were photographed.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | June 9, 2021 10:44 PM |
It's a morning caftan which should never wear past 11:30 a.m.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | June 9, 2021 11:44 PM |
Caftan? More like a halftan! I fear all the world to have peerage of my virtuous undercarriage without proper consent!
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