


October 14, 2009
Fly Fishing: The New Fashion Chic?
By Kirk Deeter

Field & Stream's ever-so-stylish Kristyn Brady flagged this photo by Marcio Madeira of model Kim Noorda walking the runway in designer Giles' Fall 2009 Ready-to-Wear collection..look closely and you'll notice the print features classic fishing flies. Now I'm no slave to fashion, but I will tell you that the three or four times a year I wear a necktie, it features flies. In fact, it's usually a pretty safe bet at the holidays that I'll be given something for my wardrobe that features the fly motif... a safe bet for my family, it seems.
How about you? Are you the designated fly-wearin' guy/gal? What is the wackiest fly-themed article of clothing you've ever gotten, and worn?
I don't know, this might be the magic the fly industry needs to boost the sport's popularity. Skinny supermodels wearing Green-Butt Skunks and Silver Doctors...
Nah, nevermind. I think my wife looks plenty hot in a pair of Gore- Tex waders.
Deeter
Comments (19)
Wow the criteria to become a model sure is not what it used to be. Looks as if they found her passed out in an alley.
I actually dressed up like a wooly bugger for halloween last year. Wore all olive clothes with a fleece "hula skirt" type deal for the tail and christmas tree garland wound up my torso. Finished off with a black skull cap and eye on my head and hook on my thigh, both made out of coat hangers wrapped in foil.
Way way way back in the closet you might find a tie with salmon flies on it. Way back. I think even further back than my parachute pants. It would have been in the trash years ago except it was a gift from the mother in law.
I like to wear my fly covered ross reels hat out every once and awhile...it's totally a fashion statement. It says that I am not only going to drink you under the table, im gonna be comfortable doing it annnnnddd I'm gonna wake up and be on the river before you even go to bed. Booyahh.
Just some cufflinks, with one fly in clear epoxy on each. They are actually pretty nice. They were my dad's - probably from the early 60's.
MB915: "Looks as if they found her passed out in an alley."
That's an alley I'd like to pass out in...
Got a pair of pants with some caddis and parachute adams up and down the legs... As far as models in fly-related apparel, I prefer this:
http://www.womeninwaders.com/
Someone get her a cheeseburger.
I own a couple shirts plenty of streamers (made in poland) and also a sleeping bag with a serie of cane rod
fly,trout,hat,hip boots...
Yes, fly fishing is an all time fashion theme. And good
idea on ready to wear.
I'm always angry about the non flyfishers using flyfishing as some vehicle to promote something else... limp-wristed casters plugging cars or investment companies on TV commercials... now, apparently, models, to plug a fashion show. Fishing is about fishing... if you have to wear it, or show it, you don't get it. Just fish. If you like it so much, you might wear a necktie (Deeter) that's fine... but show me some substnance, not style. I hate wannabe clingers on to a sport I consider sacred.
I wore a fly on my shirt collar once- a number 8 wooley bugger, first fly I ever tied.
Sad thing was that it was about two inches from being an earring.
I was new to the sport and had very rudimentary casting skills and highly undeveloped style.
I cast much better now than I used to, so the chances of wearing a fly on my apparel is not nearly as probable as it was then. Other than that one time, I have no experience adorning myself with fishing tackle.
Looking at the model, however, makes me think she did her hair to match that first woolybugger I tied.
Deeter...nice save!
Please! Eat some food!
Whats with the hair and the miserable look on her face. How about a smile.
Yea, eat more cheeseburgers and be fat like the rest of us.
Well, I guess we now all know that JuliaG is fat.
Can you imagine hugging the woman in the picture?
couldn't they find a twig somewhere that didn't look stoned? better yet find a girl with a few curves and a smile.
Great selection of Fly fishing neckties and t-shirts
http://whatdidyoubringme.homestead.com/files/neckties/FreshwaterFishNeck...
http://whatdidyoubringme.homestead.com/files/Tshirts/Fish/Fish_freshwate...
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Wow the criteria to become a model sure is not what it used to be. Looks as if they found her passed out in an alley.
I actually dressed up like a wooly bugger for halloween last year. Wore all olive clothes with a fleece "hula skirt" type deal for the tail and christmas tree garland wound up my torso. Finished off with a black skull cap and eye on my head and hook on my thigh, both made out of coat hangers wrapped in foil.
I like to wear my fly covered ross reels hat out every once and awhile...it's totally a fashion statement. It says that I am not only going to drink you under the table, im gonna be comfortable doing it annnnnddd I'm gonna wake up and be on the river before you even go to bed. Booyahh.
MB915: "Looks as if they found her passed out in an alley."
That's an alley I'd like to pass out in...
Someone get her a cheeseburger.
I wore a fly on my shirt collar once- a number 8 wooley bugger, first fly I ever tied.
Sad thing was that it was about two inches from being an earring.
I was new to the sport and had very rudimentary casting skills and highly undeveloped style.
I cast much better now than I used to, so the chances of wearing a fly on my apparel is not nearly as probable as it was then. Other than that one time, I have no experience adorning myself with fishing tackle.
Looking at the model, however, makes me think she did her hair to match that first woolybugger I tied.
Way way way back in the closet you might find a tie with salmon flies on it. Way back. I think even further back than my parachute pants. It would have been in the trash years ago except it was a gift from the mother in law.
Just some cufflinks, with one fly in clear epoxy on each. They are actually pretty nice. They were my dad's - probably from the early 60's.
Got a pair of pants with some caddis and parachute adams up and down the legs... As far as models in fly-related apparel, I prefer this:
http://www.womeninwaders.com/
I own a couple shirts plenty of streamers (made in poland) and also a sleeping bag with a serie of cane rod
fly,trout,hat,hip boots...
Yes, fly fishing is an all time fashion theme. And good
idea on ready to wear.
I'm always angry about the non flyfishers using flyfishing as some vehicle to promote something else... limp-wristed casters plugging cars or investment companies on TV commercials... now, apparently, models, to plug a fashion show. Fishing is about fishing... if you have to wear it, or show it, you don't get it. Just fish. If you like it so much, you might wear a necktie (Deeter) that's fine... but show me some substnance, not style. I hate wannabe clingers on to a sport I consider sacred.
Deeter...nice save!
Please! Eat some food!
Well, I guess we now all know that JuliaG is fat.
Can you imagine hugging the woman in the picture?
couldn't they find a twig somewhere that didn't look stoned? better yet find a girl with a few curves and a smile.
Great selection of Fly fishing neckties and t-shirts
http://whatdidyoubringme.homestead.com/files/neckties/FreshwaterFishNeck...
http://whatdidyoubringme.homestead.com/files/Tshirts/Fish/Fish_freshwate...
Whats with the hair and the miserable look on her face. How about a smile.
Yea, eat more cheeseburgers and be fat like the rest of us.
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