The dreaded "Double D"

[Big Game]

totally agree, those fools in starter jackets and stonewashed jeans are clueless.

My choice of jacket: Member's Only
My jeans: Acid Washed

Acutally on the leather jacket thing, I was thinking about wearing one for the first couple of days my favorites woods open. Takes a while for all the pokey sticks to get down and if I wear my leather thug magnet, I won't have to worry about ripping up my spendy gore tex.

 

[Talisman]

Yes, I usually wear gortex when skiing in New England, but I freely admit to having skied in jeans many times. In the era of woolen ski pants, skiing in jeans was only marginally worse. When on business travel to ski country I ski wearing what clothes were brought along. I have skied in Japan, Michigan and Tahoe with jeans but alas no Starter jacket.

I refrain from forming opinions about people from what they are wearing. I have seen the 'denim dare-devils' in action and seen others in more expensive garb also ski poorly or dangerously.

Let our enthusiasm for winter sport be a bond, versus being fragmented by clothing choices.

 

[awf170]

Those ski pants were designed for the double-P I guess. The Park Punks. The dudes hanging out at the top of the terrain park with sweet 7 foot chains attaching their pants to their wallet that still has the driver's license holster empty. These species sit at the top of the park for hours straight, just looking cool and saying things like "yo, dude, gnarly, b.tch, f..k, rad, awesome, we're better than you". Their favorite activity is making fun of me when I try to take the kiddie jump and crash.

dont forget that they also hang out on this website, and talk about whats cooler xxl or xxxl pants
http://newschoolers.com/NS2/News/ViewNews.php

 

[thetrailboss]

I always harkin back to this picture I took a Attitash last winter..
Nice jeans, old boots and skis... bindings that a technician can't legally touch

OK, as someone who grew up in a 'blue collar' area where a lot of locals skied and still ski like that, I am going to stand up and defend these folks... :wink: I know this is a tongue and cheek thread, so if this is out of place, my apologies.

From my experience, we need more of these folks in the sport. I enjoy meeting different people on the lifts and sharing the sport that I love with them. They share the same passion.

From my experience, the folks who ski in jeans are friendly, down-to-earth, hardworking folk who want to have a good time. What's wrong with that?

 

[dmc]

Yeah we all wore jeans at one time...

Big whoop...

Me making fun of someone wearing stupid clothes will not gentrify the sport...

Just like me snowboarding doesnt ruin it... Maybe I'll start a no-jeans mountain..
YOu wear jeans... Go someplace else... We're preserving the Gortex experience... Keeping it real.. :roll:

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

From my experience, we need more of these folks in the sport. I enjoy meeting different people on the lifts and sharing the sport that I love with them. They share the same passion. .

I hope that no one takes this the wrong way, but they don't share the same passion. The ski industry needs them, they are perfectly nice people and I'm happy to see them having a good time.

An example to make my point is I play golf a couple of times a year, on a nice day, for something to do. It's not passion, it's fun for me every now and then.

 

[thetrailboss]

From my experience, we need more of these folks in the sport. I enjoy meeting different people on the lifts and sharing the sport that I love with them. They share the same passion. .

I hope that no one takes this the wrong way, but they don't share the same passion. The ski industry needs them, they are perfectly nice people and I'm happy to see them having a good time.

An example to make my point is I play golf a couple of times a year, on a nice day, for something to do. It's not passion, it's fun for me every now and then.

Yes, the other end of the spectrum is a necessary evil per se, and I'm not against that.

Again, probably not a good rant for this thread, but oh well...

 

[Treeliner]

From my experience, we need more of these folks in the sport. I enjoy meeting different people on the lifts and sharing the sport that I love with them. They share the same passion. .

I hope that no one takes this the wrong way, but they don't share the same passion. The ski industry needs them, they are perfectly nice people and I'm happy to see them having a good time.

An example to make my point is I play golf a couple of times a year, on a nice day, for something to do. It's not passion, it's fun for me every now and then.

I totally agree. There are skiers who find message boards like AlpineZone (us) and talk with other skiers who share their passion, and then there are recreational skiers who have fun skiing but are by no means passionate about it.

I'm constantly forgetting this, actually. I meet someone who I heard has skied before and I automatically assume its someone who is as passionate about it as I am. I start talking to them and they're like "yeah, I go a few times a year" and I realize they're basically just as into it as I am with something like road cycling.

 

[Vano]

From my experience, we need more of these folks in the sport. I enjoy meeting different people on the lifts and sharing the sport that I love with them. They share the same passion. .

I hope that no one takes this the wrong way, but they don't share the same passion. The ski industry needs them, they are perfectly nice people and I'm happy to see them having a good time.

An example to make my point is I play golf a couple of times a year, on a nice day, for something to do. It's not passion, it's fun for me every now and then.

The auto insurance industry needs accidents, dismemberments, deaths and flagrant lawyers to stay in business. The porn industry needs cocaine to "spice things up on camera". And the fashion industry needs people who like to wear their jeans all the time, no matter what they are doing.

Its not like the DDs won't go skiing if they are not allowed to wear their jeans. A low end pair of ski pants costs less than most Levi jeans do. Ski pants cost about half of what most large ski resorts charge for a single lift ticket. If some DDs can't afford the pants, thats fine. But for the rest that can, but won't, I have full rights to make fun of them to my heart's content. :argue:

 

[ctenidae]

The hairspray companies need Jersey Girls to stay in business, too.

 

[Vano]

The hairspray companies need Jersey Girls to stay in business, too.

As the great Zoolander once said: Oh Snap!

Thx for the good laugh.

 

[ctenidae]

Happy to oblige.

When I was in the restaurant biz, we hated Amateur Nights (New Years, St Paddy's, Cinco de Mayo to name a few), but realized that those days (and those fools) keep the beer prices down for the rest of us.

 

[Marc]

Ahem, humor, people, just humor. Nothing to get too worked up about.


:beer:

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Bump...I thought this thread was about Breasts..lol

 

[MRGisevil]

Ahem, humor, people, just humor. Nothing to get too worked up about.


:beer:

Don't you understand the rules, man? It's always something to get worked up about unless suffixed by no less than thirty-two winkies and perhaps a beer-cheers for good measure. And then three follow up responses about how, yes, you were just kidding, and no, you don't really think that people who wear neon sunglasses are automatically losers who wouldn't know how to ski if an obese woman who'd just run out of KFC was chasing them down the mountain- and no, there is nothing wrong with obese women who like KFC, I'm just tired and it was the most obscure reference I could think up at the moment.

Gosh.

 

[Hawkshot99]

Don't you understand the rules, man? It's always something to get worked up about unless suffixed by no less than thirty-two winkies and perhaps a beer-cheers for good measure. And then three follow up responses about how, yes, you were just kidding, and no, you don't really think that people who wear neon sunglasses are automatically losers who wouldn't know how to ski if an obese woman who'd just run out of KFC was chasing them down the mountain- and no, there is nothing wrong with obese women who like KFC, I'm just tired and it was the most obscure reference I could think up at the moment.

Gosh.

No smilies, I think she is serious!

 

[Hawkshot99]

Bump...I thought this thread was about Breasts..lol

Yea, I got exited too..........:sad:

 

[Hawkshot99]

And they are not a true DD, with out a face mask. No matter the temp.:smile:

 

[Sparky]

I seem to see the DD's en masse when I go to Jiminy Peak. Something about that place.

I guess I've had my share of students in Jeans some of which were from the home state of the NFL Giants, however they weren't all bad. They were there to have fun and thats what this is all about. Most never come back but I think just about all of them have fun. Including the girl in the crop top leather jacket and jeans. Which by the way was not an unflattering look for her, but I dicress, sorry. They may not know the nuances, but they know how to be adventuress. I would not want to hear one of them coming up behind me on a Black diamond, but they weren't any more of a problem in a lesson then anyone else.

P.S. I have skied in Jeans and I have the scares to prove it.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

And they are not a true DD, with out a face mask. No matter the temp.:smile:

hahahahahaha..Facemask Frddy skis at Blue mountain..it could be 50 degrees out and he's still wearing a facemask because it's part of his ski outfit..