{"id":17895,"date":"2011-01-18T13:10:21","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T21:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/?p=17895"},"modified":"2011-01-18T13:22:46","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T21:22:46","slug":"lyndon-johnson-would-have-loved-vivienne-westwoods-latest-looks-prince-william-not-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/mens-style\/mens-clothing\/lyndon-johnson-would-have-loved-vivienne-westwoods-latest-looks-prince-william-not-so-much","title":{"rendered":"Lyndon Johnson Would Have Loved Vivienne Westwood&#8217;s Latest Looks, Prince William? Not So Much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now, you may have seen this video of animations set to audio of President Lyndon B. Johnson describing to clothing maker Joe Hager his need for pants with room &#8220;where the nuts hang&#8230; back to the bunghole,&#8221; and an additional 2 inches or so of fabric to let in or out depending on his weight fluctuations. That&#8217;s a direct quote.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/18864216\" width=\"490\" height=\"275\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_17900\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/vivienne-westwood-fall-2011.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17900\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/vivienne-westwood-fall-2011-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"vivienne-westwood-fall-2011\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17900\" srcset=\"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/vivienne-westwood-fall-2011-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/vivienne-westwood-fall-2011.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17900\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This has LBJ written all over it<\/p><\/div>Well, if nothing else you can&#8217;t accuse Johnson of not knowing what he wants, and though the language is brash being able to let clothing in or out depending on weight fluctuations doesn&#8217;t sound like an unreasonable request or a bad idea.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the video being amusing, we bring up Johnson&#8217;s preferences because as we were looking through Vivienne Westwood&#8217;s collection of drop crotch pants for Fall 2011 we couldn&#8217;t help but think that if Johnson were still around these are exactly the type of trouser he&#8217;d go for.<\/p>\n<p>In her show notes, Westwood envisions the designs as part of a royal wedding ensemble. How to put this delicately: we think Prince William might have a slightly different preference, but somewhere at the heights of power some man is looking at those outfits and thinking &#8220;yes!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately the one that first comes to mind is deceased, but there have to be at least a few more out there who look for the same qualities in a pair of trousers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now, you may have seen this video of animations set to audio of President Lyndon B. Johnson describing to clothing maker Joe Hager his need for pants with room &#8220;where the nuts hang&#8230; back to the bunghole,&#8221; and an additional 2 inches or so of fabric to let in or out depending on his weight fluctuations. That&#8217;s a direct quote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[3145,5207,1070],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17895"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17895"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17903,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17895\/revisions\/17903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}