This year, someone thought, “Yes, what the world needs is an app that’ll help people swap their leftovers with strangers. Genius.” We... didn’t cover that app. Here are the best worst things that suddenly existed in 2013.
When it gets a little chilly this time of year, some people put on a sweater with a neck-to-waist coverage zone. But one forward-thinking designer considered a sweater that would cover your entire body, except for a tiny little face hole. Nothing warms the body like the loss of dignity.
When you don’t finish your dinner at a great restaurant, you’ve got one option: 1) Take it home and enjoy your leftovers. 2) Download an app that’ll help you swap them with some creepy stranger looking to off-load his carton of half-eaten pad thai. Like we said, one option.
Appropriate bike attire is tricky. Sure, if you’re in the Tour de France, going full spandex is expected. And if you’re Pee-wee Herman, you can pull off a gray suit with a red bow tie. But... hard to imagine anytime you’d wear a spandex Pee-wee Herman suit, except to dinner.
Picture it: gray skies. Rain droplets plunking against the window. “Everybody Hurts” murmuring in the background. You, eating ramen from a bowl that has a built-in slot for your iPhone to distract you from your crippling loneliness. Okay, now stop picturing that and invite a friend to lunch.
The problem with jeans is, when you put a phone in one of the already-plentiful pockets, you get a weird phone-shaped bulge happening. The only solution, apparently, is to add another pocket, a slit through the outer seam above the knee, so you get a weird upper-knee bulge instead. Yeah. Much better.
