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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

 

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from MB915 wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

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.

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from WVOtter wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

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.

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from buckhunter wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

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.

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from Bookie12 wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

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.

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from MLH wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

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.

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from vince wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

MB915: "Looks as if they found her passed out in an alley."

That's an alley I'd like to pass out in...

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from cTXn wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

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/

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from shane wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

Someone get her a cheeseburger.

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from aragonnapoles wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

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.

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from FlyDave wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

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.

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from ranger2 wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

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.

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from ranger2 wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

Looking at the model, however, makes me think she did her hair to match that first woolybugger I tied.

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from bubbysgrampa wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

Deeter...nice save!

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from fflutterffly wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

Please! Eat some food!

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from juliaG wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

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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from Mike Diehl wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

Well, I guess we now all know that JuliaG is fat.

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from Ruckweiler wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

Can you imagine hugging the woman in the picture?

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from fractured100 wrote 2 years 30 weeks ago

couldn't they find a twig somewhere that didn't look stoned? better yet find a girl with a few curves and a smile.

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from MB915 wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

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.

+4 Good Comment? | | Report
from WVOtter wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

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.

+3 Good Comment? | | Report
from Bookie12 wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

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.

+3 Good Comment? | | Report
from vince wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

MB915: "Looks as if they found her passed out in an alley."

That's an alley I'd like to pass out in...

+2 Good Comment? | | Report
from shane wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

Someone get her a cheeseburger.

+2 Good Comment? | | Report
from ranger2 wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

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.

+2 Good Comment? | | Report
from ranger2 wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

Looking at the model, however, makes me think she did her hair to match that first woolybugger I tied.

+2 Good Comment? | | Report
from buckhunter wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

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.

+1 Good Comment? | | Report
from MLH wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

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.

+1 Good Comment? | | Report
from cTXn wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

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/

+1 Good Comment? | | Report
from aragonnapoles wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

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.

+1 Good Comment? | | Report
from FlyDave wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

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.

+1 Good Comment? | | Report
from bubbysgrampa wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

Deeter...nice save!

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from fflutterffly wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

Please! Eat some food!

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from Mike Diehl wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

Well, I guess we now all know that JuliaG is fat.

0 Good Comment? | | Report
from Ruckweiler wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

Can you imagine hugging the woman in the picture?

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from fractured100 wrote 2 years 30 weeks ago

couldn't they find a twig somewhere that didn't look stoned? better yet find a girl with a few curves and a smile.

0 Good Comment? | | Report
from juliaG wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

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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