underneath my robes…
as graduation approaches, i’m faced with the typical end-of-school-career question: what to wear under my graduation robes? (this post was prompted by matt’s graduation photos, and the fact that i forgot to have mine taken.)
here’s the rundown of what i’ve already done:
highschool: jeans and a sweatshirt
college: daisy dukes, sweatsocks, doc martens classic 8-eye boot, wifebeater and a funky bamboo bra. no, the bra wasn’t made of bamboo, that’s the brand. (wile e. coyote didn’t participate in the graduation ceremonies — he was a post-diploma gift.)
grad school: i honestly don’t remember, although i think it was a jeans & sweatshirt variant. i was mostly distracted by the salmon pink “hood” we were supposed to wear. (way to make an entire class look like they have giant vaginas on their backs.) UPDATE: as you can see, salmon pink hood thing. the bumper sticker on my mortarboard reads, “equal protection, my ass.” i was doomed to go to law school, i tell you.
so now i’m left with law school. the robes, as you can see from matt’s photos, are considerably more substantial than my college and grad school gowns. and that marvelous cap!
i’m tapped out of ideas. any suggestions? (”will compromise principles for money” across my forehead has already been suggested.)
March 1st, 2006 at 2:51 pm
Dress for court, wear a tennis outfit.
March 1st, 2006 at 3:29 pm
wellll, justice is blind and she is also pretty much bare ass.
how about some nice heels and some ink beneath the robes?
March 2nd, 2006 at 12:03 am
If I had a scanner, I’d scan in the hilarious pictures from our graduation of what you were wearing– since it was hot, you left the robe open through lots of the pictures, and the outfit is quite striking. You forgot to mention the shades, though!
March 2nd, 2006 at 1:01 pm
Sorry I missed the Daisy Dukes.
How about a Saran Wrap bra underneath a dark pin-striped power suit. As for shoes? Got any Chuck Taylors? Funky Adidas?
Or how about a nice sarong. Do you have your nose pierced? I can’t remember.
This is Anthony from CD Cellar, by the way. I should be able to spend some time looking at your AWESOME photos and commenting.
This blog thing you’ve got going looks great. I’m going to have to ask your opinion / expertise / foxy braininess for help in putting up something of my own that’s so sweet looking (right now I’m a mySpace & live journal geek. but not much of a geek).
March 2nd, 2006 at 4:23 pm
http://www2.uol.com.br/supla/index_flash.html
also on eBay, item# 4772239089 (just copy/paste item # into an eBay search field)
March 2nd, 2006 at 11:54 pm
holy obscure music, batman! anthony, you’re awesome. (re: saran wrap bra - hmm. sounds sweaty)
jacob — is that a threat? *grin* i have a few photos of my own (although i think most of them also feature a certain berson) i was considering scanning in & putting up. maybe i’ll look for them this weekend.
since jeff hasn’t commented on this threat yet, i’ll try to find some photos from highschool that have him in them. shouldn’t be too hard…
March 9th, 2006 at 11:28 am
What? Wait, how did I get roped into this? And do you really want to show off pics of us from HS graduation? (I have a couple, but they aren’t scanned in, alas.)
Given that we have similar robes (my Michigan ones look very similar to the Georgetown ones, only mine have “maize” piping down the edges), I suggest a nice pair of slacks and shoes. Nothing else, of course, but the slacks are nice. (I suppose nipple-chafing is a possibility but, well, one has to live dangerously.)
March 9th, 2006 at 5:21 pm
March 11th, 2006 at 10:50 pm
Oh my God. I hate you beyond words.
March 12th, 2006 at 2:42 am
foo. and here i thought it was a cute photograph. maybe i’m still bitter about the NHS thing…. *thbbbbt*
March 12th, 2006 at 11:40 am
On the plus side, this actually proves that I’ve come a long way, baby (and without the need for Virginia Slims!).
I hereby claim that I have no knowledge of the whole NHS thing — hey, I wasn’t inducted until senior year anyway. But you went to Brown and where did Mariana go again? Besides, by not going to the induction luncheon, you actually got to witness the senior class strike against McBee (for smacking Leoncio in the stomach) that all of us “good kids” wished we were there for. (Or at least I wanted to be there for that, countercultural wannabe that I am.)
God, those glasses. Yeesh.
May 11th, 2006 at 4:53 pm
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Oh shit…
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
gasp!
May 11th, 2006 at 5:17 pm
careful, ben, i’ve got photos of YOU, too.