March 20, 2011 - 4:36pm
Fashion Friday — 3/19/10
BY SHARON JACOBS
Well, another UMich St. Patrick’s Day has come and gone … I think. If your memory’s still a bit sloshy from Wednesday’s adventures, don’t worry — Fashion Friday has captured the cream of the green-clad crop for you to ogle. For your convenience, outfits are rated on a scale from “red cup o’ green frat beer” to “fifth o’ Jameson’s.”
This front-yard partier sure knows how to accessorize. The oversized emerald shades and bowtie nicely complement the smallish hat. Also, he’s a ginger — just like a real Irishman! Rating: one hearty pint of ale.
Girl to our right: slightly revealing, slimmingly cut-up, beer-themed T-shirt, neon spandex and matching headband, beaded whistle necklace, sparkly lime eyeshadow. Girl to our left: green sweatshirt. Ok, seriously? Right-side girl gets two shots of Bailey’s Irish Crème, her friend gets none.
First off, it’s a sock. But getting past that, this Green Man wannabe actually kinda does look like Charlie from “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” — I think it’s the impish grin. And so, in the “Always Sunny” tradition, let’s award him one wine-in-a-can.
Looks like Dipsy (that’s the green Teletubby’s name, for those of you who didn’t have baby siblings in the late ’90s) thought it’d be cool to recycle his Halloween costume in spring. And I get the conceit, because who wants to be a Teletubby two years in a row? It probably doesn’t go far with the ladies. But still, he could get more creative than this decidedly un-Irish getup. One frothy, vomit-tinted Pike delight, coming up.
It was this girl’s 21st birthday on Wednesday. Born on March 17 — how luck-of-the-Irish is that? Points for the Ireland flag, the gold-trimmed jacket, the handmade garter, the — oh, points for every revelrous detail. This birthday girl deserves a big pot of gold … gold-colored Bulmers Original Irish Cider, that is.
Hey, is this that guy who plays harmonica by the Ugli, who I thought was homeless until I found out he’s a prof? Er, researcher, actually. Anyway, this Facebook-famous faculty member gets honorable mention for just doing his thing, unfazed, as hordes of drunken college students paraded by all day. Give the man a Guinness, and give it up for another St. Patrick’s Day well spent. Now, that’s the Michian Difference.
