Ask MetaFilter posts tagged with dressing

Help me blend, not bland, my way through summer

Unicorn on the cob — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:10:32 -0800

It's about to be summer in Texas. I bought a smallish food processor. Please give me your best food-processor recipes. I realize there have been discussions of salsa, baba ghanouj and hummus here on the green... and wondered, what else is there? In the summer it's too g.d. hot to cook lots of times, so for example, we make a cold pasta salad with a vegan pesto that's tasty. What other things can I make with the food processor that are like this? Sauces, dips, dressings, salsas, guacamoles, etc.? Soup base, maybe? Can I make nut butter in this thing as well? I have a rice cooker too, and can use it without overheating the kitchen, so if you have a recipe for something that goes well over rice, couscous or quinoa, bring it on!

I prefer vegetarian recipes; however, if you have a bizarre meat-based recipe, let's hear that too, just for the heck of it.

Should I bother with the make-up?

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:01:01 -0800

What are the benefits of "dressing-up"? I am female, in my 40s, professional in a fairly casual office. Make-up, hair-dos, and other markers of being more dressed up seems like a waste of time. What (if any) are the benefits of being more dressed up that would make it worth the time/cost/effort? When I don't have to interact with the public, I wear jeans and tee-shirts. Occasionally, when I have to interact with the major higher-ups, I get out the suit. Most of the time, though, I wear what most people would call "dressy casual." Oxford shirts and khakis, sweater sets and dress pants, etc. Admittedly, though, my button-down shirts are usually not ironed and I wear them untucked. I also never wear make-up. My hair gets towel dried, and is usually mostly dry by them time I get to the office. It gets cut twice a year, to get rid of the split ends. The office I work in is casual, and most people wear clothes similar in the level of dressiness (oxford shirt and khakis, sweater in the winter, polo shirt/tee-shirt in summer). There is a spectrum, though, and I am on the "less-dressy" side of it, though still well within the norm. There are people who dress up more than I do, and I'm wondering if there might be tangible benefits to being dressed up more that would make it worth the time and effort? In my 20s, I did bother with the make-up and dressing up more formally because I looked so young and dressing up made me feel more secure and gave me more c readability, especially in the eyes of older white males. Now that I'm older and pretty much look my part, am I losing anything by not bothering? I know some people really enjoy the way they look when they have make up on and have the hair done a certain way, and it gives them self-assurance, etc., but that's not me. For me, it really is a bother. The time and the expense of having to buy the stuff, use the stuff, dry clean the suit, etc etc. is something I don't want to do.

So, are there any benefits of being more dressed up that would make it worth the time/cost/effort? Thanks for your answers and sorry for the long explanation.

Flickr for Clothes, y'all! Good idea?

Firas — Sat, 12 May 2007 23:36:14 -0800

Wardrobe software. Has nobody done this? Wouldn't a social webapp for clothing be fiercely awesome? I'm not the target user really (I assume a hypothetical userbase would skew heavily towards the other gender) but even to the extent that I see it being personally useful, it does seem awesome.

Think something like: being able to list everything, add pictures, define combinations, take pictures of yourself in those combinations, get people to suggest combinations for you, etc. Basically a heavy emphasis on organization and communication instead of just spreadsheet-style itemization.

I know that 'social shopping' is an exploding niche and that people have done this with eg. perfumes (basenotes), but I'm concerned that this may be a solution looking for a problem.

Whatcha think?

Help me find fashionable women's winter boots

friendlyfire — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 16:53:18 -0800

Help me find women's winter boots! Rumor has it that it will be a very snowy winter. I want to avoid what happened to me last year... struggling through the snow it my very impractical heeled boots. There were days when I didn't go to class because I was too afraid of slipping! I had never lived in a cold climate before las year, so I'm not really sure what I'm looking for. I just want them to be nice looking women's boots that will be warm and prevent me from slipping. Hopefully not too expensive, too (below $200 if possible). If it matters, I like round toed shoes. I'm a 20 year old college student living in Manhattan. It would be great if you could post links to boots that I can actually buy. Telling me what to look for in a winter boot would be appreciated as well. Thanks!

Good lactose-free ranch dressing?

sirion — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 23:43:17 -0800

Good lactose-free ranch dressing? I like ranch. My stomach doesn't. Provide me with good fake ranch. (Mostly for dipping chicken tenders and things)

Dress up a skinny dude!

lemonfridge — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 05:49:05 -0800

Help a skinny guy get dressed! Im skinny, and quite lanky, so i have a problem finding clothes that look good on me. Shirts and stuff usually arent too much of a problem, but trousers are a pain because I end up looking even skinnier, apart from with jeans (maybe because the fabric is thicker?). My legs are stupidly skinny and tend to look skinnier in "work" trousers as the fabric always seems to be thinner.

Whats a guy to do where he's required to wear something that looks bad on him, and still look smart?

I start a new job on th 27th, and need to wear trousers, but I dont want to look dorky.

dressing like a grown-up

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 23:05:51 -0800

Fashion-eye for the middle-aged guy. I'm 6'7, 230 lbs., 40 years old, and I dress like crap. T-shirts and walmart shorts. White tube socks and running shoes. I'm slowly morphing into a sad caricature of Suburban Man. I teach at a small college and don't want to do the anti-establishment river sandals and ideological t-shirt thing, nor do I want to look like an insurance salesman, or someone who's trying to hard to not be 40, if that makes sense. Oh, and I don't have loads of disposable income.

Suggestions on dressing up and specifically finding stuff that fits someone my size that doesn't look like it belongs to my father are greatly appreciated.

(I'm leaning toward owning fewer, higher quality, better-fitting pieces of clothing. additional complication: I'm going on weight watchers with my wife, but I don't really want to wait until I've lost 20 lbs.)

best salad dressing?

footnote — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:37:00 -0800

What is your most delicious salad dressing recipe?

buying dress pants

yonation — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:07:31 -0800

i need a new pair of dress pants. the problem is that i can't find *anything* that isn't for chubby people! even when I go a waist-size down from what I am (to 30), the pants fit at the waist and then slightly balloon out until the legs taper. I've checked Daffy's, Sym's, Century 21, Banana Republic, Zara (all in NYC). No luck. Can a guy find a pair of slim, "sexy-ish" dress pants any more (ie 60s-style), or is our country just too fat? And i'm not talking about a pair of $300 Prada pants, those are out of the question. Can anyone help?