STOP THE POP!!!

Starting back in college whenever me and my friends would encounter someone with a "popped" collar (wearing the collar up) we would just kind of laugh to ourselves. It got to the point where whenever we encountered a "popped" collar in a bar, somebody would always make the obligatory "i'm gonna go over and tell him his collar is up" comment/joke.

Well I graduated from college in May 2003. Here it is April 2006, almost three years later, and what do I see when I'm walking down the street? I see a Gap display showcasing one of their new products for the spring-- the "popped polo". I was stopped dead in my tracks for like two minutes (in NYC that is an eternity).

Will somebody please stop the madness. Three years ago it was funny to laugh at people with popped collars. Today it is just sad to see people still popping their collars. Then for the Gap to enable this activity is just a travesty. I'm ready to bring legal action against them for duping poor fashion senseless souls into keeping this trend alive.

Now I realize the group Three 6 Mafia has a song called "Poppin My Collar". However if you look at the video for this song none of them have their collars popped. Even they realize the term "popped collar" is nothing more than slang and should not be incorporated into one's wardrobe. And this is the same group that came out with song "Sippin on Some Syrup" (a song about getting drunk/high on cough syrup). But then again they just won an Oscar ("It's Hard Out There for a Pimp" from "Hustle & Flow").

Anyway, if anybody out there is reading this with their collar popped I do not apologize. That's right I'm not sorry. You need to hear this: the popped collar is one of the stupidest fashion trends ever. I implore all of you who have friends who are popping their collars to please do an intervention. Do this soon because I'm not even having fun making fun of these people anymore, it just usually kills my buzz.