KUDOS & KVETCHES
Might as well not jump
The style mavens at K&K have noticed an unfortunate fashion trend that we'd like to draw your attention to in order to quell its yoga pants-like spread. And that, dear readers, is the jumpsuit.
We caught wind of this '80s resurgence last week when we were emptying our wallets at a packed Hastings eatery called Wildebeest.
Amid the din of world beat-influenced rock music and smells of locally sourced bone marrow, we saw not one, but two women wearing baggy jumpsuits, cinched above the waist with large sashes. If memory serves us correctly, they were also wearing shawls. And these weren't 64-year-old Zamfir fans like our mother who own looms and pottery wheels. These were young, vibrant, hip women who've for some reason decided to emulate the comfortable loungewear style of Parachute Club's Lorraine Segato, Talking Heads bassist Tina Weymouth and the mom from The Cosby Show.
At first we thought this might be an isolated incident. But then we went to a show Tuesday night at the Media Club. The opening act was a band from New York called TEEN, consisting of four 20-something women, all of whom wore baggy jumpsuits with sashes. And yes, a few shawls draped their way into the ill-conceived mix.
Don't get us wrong. Members of K&K have been steadfastly wearing rugby pants and banana hair clips for years now in anticipation of it becoming cool again to no avail, but we can't for the life of us understand the baggy jumpsuit craze. It's just so unflattering. Sure, it's probably comfortable, but so is wearing cut-off dress slacks while going commando and you don't see our dad on the cutting edge of fashion circles. So let's put the jumpsuits in the closet where they belong and bring back another fashion trend that hasn't been seen since the 1981 Ryan O'Neal sex comedy So Fine. That's right-buttless jeans.
Buddy system
It's rare that a city's desperation to see professional hockey players on the ice during an NHL lockout, humankind's predisposition for charitable acts and the soulless douchebagery of scalpers coalesce in a single event. But that's the case with an upcoming charity hockey game at the University of B.C. The Oct. 17 game of shinny sees Bieksa's Buddies, comprised of Canucks d-man and event organizer Kevin Bieksa, along with fellow teammates Daniel and Henrik Sedin, Dan Hamhuis, Manny Malhotra, Max Lapierre, Cory Schneider and other NHLers, take on the UBC Thunderbirds at the Doug Mitchell Sports Centre.
Tickets for the charity game benefiting Canuck Place Children's Hospice, Canucks Autism Network and the Canucks Family Education Centre were snapped up, but sadly, and somewhat predictably, many of those tickets are now being sold on Craigslist at prices far beyond the original $20 face value.
Some as high as $300.
Naturally, when asked about the scalpers, good ol' Canadian boy Bieksa issued a salt-of-the-earth type comment, saying, "It's not the way I was raised," while one of the Sedins said something resembling an android doing its best to sound like a human: "They should be embarrassed." He then added, "I'll be baaaaaack."
The Province newspaper, God bless its vigilante heart, went so far as to contact scalpers on Craigslist and shame some of them into giving up their tickets or "not profit too much."
their tickets or "not profit too much." Meanwhile there's talk of adding another Bieksa's Buddies game, which will either thwart scalpers' supply-and-demand economy or give them another chance to rake in the dough and probably buy a new Xbox or a flat of Axe body spray.
