Wear Something Gaudy Day
I have not done a National or Celebration Day since July 2020. I routinely do well-known Holidays but, I am putting these back in rotation. Enjoy! ~Vic
Today, October 17, is Wear Something Gaudy Day.
Ever wish there was more than one day a year where you could take all the conventions of proper dress and throw them out the window? Wish no more! Wear Something Gaudy allows you to let all your best examples of excruciatingly bad taste hang out for the world to see. Obviously, the best way is to choose something that is utterly without taste or fashion to wear but, that isn’t the only way. You can find your way to thrift stores to locate out of date fashions that are rarely seen out and about today and, put together an ensemble designed to shock and appall. Even throwing on a eye-searing boa can be a simple way to celebrate or you can just wear colors that clash. Everyone has pieces in their wardrobe that just don’t go, so, get in there and make peoples eyes waggle!
Wear Something Gaudy Day first came into existence through the 1970s sitcom Three’s Company, which was based on a British TV show called Man About the House. In the show, Larry Dallas, played by Richard Kline, is a used car salesman and flashy womanizer who frequently lies about his identity. True to his character, he proposed Wear Something Gaudy Day as a way to celebrate outlandish fashion. The holiday didn’t catch on immediately but, over time, California natives began celebrating it in their tackiest outfits.
[Contrary] to popular belief, the term gaudy does not come from the Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi. Etymologists have traced the usage of the word to the 16th century, well before Gaudi’s time. At that time, the word was used to refer trickery.
Have you ever wondered why dress shirts or jackets have sleeves on their cuffs? It’s actually because of Napoleon. He got tired of watching his soldiers wipe their noses on their sleeves, so he had their jackets equipped with buttons.
Cosmic-Observation 
October 18, 2023 at 10:33 AM
Lulu: “Hmm, our Dada has a lot of very colorful shirts, do those count?”
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October 18, 2023 at 1:01 PM
Yes. Yes, they do. Do they hurt your eyes?
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October 18, 2023 at 12:17 PM
HAHAHA!!!!
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October 18, 2023 at 1:03 PM
Glad I made you laugh, Momma.
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October 18, 2023 at 5:06 PM
I’ll bet you laughed also
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October 18, 2023 at 5:25 PM
I giggled the whole time I was posting. 😄
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October 18, 2023 at 5:58 PM
I thought so! I could just see you as I read 🙂
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October 19, 2023 at 8:19 PM
Every day is this day! lol…I’m not a great dresser at the best of times. Blue jeans and a t shirt…that is it.
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October 19, 2023 at 8:53 PM
Hey. That works. Ken has a huge collection of t-shirts, some with some weird sayings on them. Case in point…we went to Durham Dermatology, today and he was wearing a shirt that said…”Heavily Medicated For Your Safety.”
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October 19, 2023 at 8:54 PM
lol I like that!
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October 19, 2023 at 9:01 PM
Another says “When Did You Figure Out That I Stopped Listening?”
Then, there is “Despite The Look On My Face, You Are Still Talking.”
LMAO!
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October 19, 2023 at 9:05 PM
LOL…I need a few like that.
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October 19, 2023 at 9:29 PM
You should see his collection of Duke t-shirts, Appalachian t-shirts, Vietnam Veteran, Seabees…
Seriously, he has more clothes than I do.
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October 19, 2023 at 10:38 PM
I need to get more T shirts…I want to get some powerpop.blog tshirts. I think that would be cool.
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October 20, 2023 at 1:59 AM
I’d buy!
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October 20, 2023 at 9:20 AM
Oh you would get one free lol…I’m going to look around
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October 20, 2023 at 12:19 PM
Got any screen printers around you? I am reminded of being in Graphics class in my senior year, making t-shirts. One of my classmates, a year behind me, wound up working for Marvel.
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October 20, 2023 at 5:37 PM
We made them also…by screen printing which was cool.
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October 26, 2023 at 4:22 PM
Unfortunately there isn’t anything in my closet that would be appropriate – my wardrobe is primarily based on me being able to move incognito from one place to another ha.
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October 26, 2023 at 6:35 PM
You like to blend into the scenery, huh? That is very “hunter-like.”
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