Chris and fashion

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Fashion passes. Style is forever.

The Ruckersville Goodwill which Chris patronizes.

“	Oh yeah, you just love to see me in my- in the old red, white and blue.	”
Chris to Kacey

Christian Weston Chandler has a somewhat peculiar taste in fashion. Although he is willing to spend thousands of dollars on video games, toys, and sex dolls, Chris is very stingy when it comes to shopping for his clothes, which are usually purchased secondhand at thrift stores like The Salvation Army and Goodwill. Prior to the Tomgirl Saga, the majority of shirts he owned were colorful collared shirts and undersized rugby shirts, most of which were decorated with horizontal stripes, making him look even fatter. Mailbag 42 revealed that at least one of these shirts (the "Advice Dog") was purchased by his mother. Though his mother didn't directly dress him anymore, Chris still chose to wear these shirts. The advent of the Tomgirl Saga was accompanied by a change to garb that may have been more feminine, but was equally cheap and hideous.

The Fashion Sense of Chris (Pre-Tomgirl)

Childhood

Ernie also enjoys "The Classic".

In his youth, Chris set the general tone for years to come with many striped polos, T-shirts, and khaki pants. The only difference compared to adulthood is that he sometimes dared to wear single-colored shirts with his favorite game and television characters on them. The only article of clothing he was seen in until the summer of 2010 that didn't follow the "long-sleeved, colorful clown suit" theme was the Pokémon T-shirt that he owned since he was 19. Being yellow, it did not look particularly good on him.

Trademark clothing

Artist's vision of Chris's typical outfit, featuring "the Horizontal Horror".

This is the original and most iconic look of Chris, the standard until mid-2011. It is a look immortalized in his comic book self-insertion. His outfit usually consisted of:

• His favorite shirt, a St. John's Bay® Rugby Stripe Sueded Polo, which was so tight that it accentuated his voluptuous, masculine bosoms. This is the shirt that Chris almost invariably drew himself wearing in the comics. Trolls came to call it the "clown shirt" or "The Classic." It was destroyed in the 2014 fire that gutted the Chandler house.
• His medallions (sporadically) and his High School Ring
• A pair of pedo-glasses attached to a chain.
• Jeans or khaki slacks. Chris's jeans typically defined his rear end to a disturbing level — he may have been wearing women's jeans, or he may have been simply wearing pants his gut long ago outgrew.
• The Belt Buckle of Fail.
• Alternatively, a green terrycloth bathrobe with a mismatched (of course) black belt on occasions when he's in the mood for recycling, or when even getting dressed would involve too much stress.
• On occasion, a dark suit jacket, perhaps for funerals or church.
• During the winter months, a dark blue parka with orange and yellow stripes to enhance visibility.
• Starting in late 2009, a bra to keep the previously mentioned bosoms in check.

The "IBA" outfit

The "IBA" outfit.

In mid-June 2009, roughly around the time he made certain friends, Chris temporarily decided that his current look was old hat. He got rid of many of the striped shirts (mostly because he couldn't fit into them anymore) and grew a goatee.

The reformed Chris's wardrobe consisted of:

• Sunglasses over normal glasses (glasses chain remains)
• T-shirt over long sleeved shirt.
• Goatee.
• Tattoo sleeves
• A black vest that was too small for his girth.

His new attire was first properly presented to the world in the Rollin' and Trollin' video.

Soon afterward, however, he went back to sporting his traditional clown shirts, and claimed that he had been pressured into making the Rollin' and Trollin' video. However, on the same day he shaved his beard, he drew the first picture of Collosal Chan, a character which preserved the look for all eternity.

The "Gay Trucker" outfit

Notice how his pose in this picture is eerily reminiscent of his pose in ShecameforCWC.jpg.

After he promised to leave the Internet in the spring of 2010, Chris threw away his clown shirts, ditched the medallion for several months (it returned in September), and picked up a new wardrobe in an attempt to look like a normal person. This included a denim jacket from Goodwill that he cut the sleeves off of, making it look somewhat like a gilet. The result was a modified version of the IBA outfit. It has been observed that when Chris tries to look like a bad boy, he ends up looking like a gay trucker, hence the trolls' term for his new wardrobe.

The only way he could have made it look gayer would have been by combining it with his muscle bra. Which, unfortunately, he did. And in public. At this point, going back to the medallion would have actually improved his chances of picking up gal-pals.

Deftly combining what Chris has too much of and what he will never have with a non-prostitute.

With the arrival of the gay trucker outfit also came an interest in T-shirts that boldly expressed Chris's desire for sex, often in exceedingly tasteless ways. The first clear look at one of these shirts was in a profoundly disturbing video leaked in late April 2010 which featured Chris wearing a parody shirt that changed the Mountain Dew logo so it read "Mount and Do Me." Fans hoped that since this was a private video for a potential sweetheart, Chris didn't intend to dress like that outside his bedroom. Alas, Chris destroyed any hope of that being the case on 18 June 2010 when he wore a shirt that said "Enjoy Vagina" to Fridays After Five--a public, family-oriented concert. He topped this by pulling that shirt over his head and standing around in his muscle bra, on which he had written "WANT WOMAN!" The common belief is that these unfunny, sexually-themed shirts are the next evolution of the attraction sign, a way for him to inform potential mates that he is available without ever having to talk to people, nor spend any effort in making a sign.

In late August 2010, Chris returned to the Internet with a series of videos in which he sported simple, loose-fitting T-shirts. The effect was interesting, bringing him closer to normality than he'd been in many years. He was still a pale, sweaty, balding, fat, pathetically weak manchild, but in Ruckersville, that put him reasonably close to the mainstream.

A number of Chris's T-shirts appear to have been with him for a decade or more--a Manchester High shirt, a souvenir shirt from the BrickFest event in 2000, and a Pokémon trainer shirt from the Books-a-Million where Chris played card games between 1998 and 2000. Either he's willing to keep shirts that have some personal significance around for a very long time, or his packrat tendencies prevent him from throwing any of them away.

The Carlos Chantor outfit

His best outfit yet. Too bad it did not last.

A single picture of Chris posing as a male prostitute was posted on Escorts.com. It is significant because it implies that Chris can dress like a normal human being if he wants to remain inconspicuous.

The black shirt and sunglasses he is wearing are never seen in any later pictures.

Chris's Tomgirl Fashion Sense

Early Tomgirl Fashion

He made himself into a sweetheart from the ground-up.

Main article: Tomgirl Pictures

In April 2011, a series of leaked pictures showed Chris dressed in women's clothing in public. This outfit consisted of:

• Bright green nail polish
• Earrings (a purple glass stud and a blue ring)
• Women's sandals
• Blue eyeliner
• Jeans
• Blue string top
• Black thong
• A silver ring (note that silver rings have been used to symbolize a pledge virginity until marriage)
• A red and blue sweater vest (tank top) with a red shirt underneath it
• Red lipstick
• A new pair of glasses

While Chris was very happy with his new fashion choices, friction with his parents made it difficult for him to wear makeup and women's clothing overtly. Sometimes he had to change after leaving the house or before returning (but he could always wear a bra and panties).

A hemline this high leaves little to the imagination.

Late Tomgirl Fashion

Chris in December 2014.

Chris's tomgirl antics have continued into 2015, but with some refinements of his style in the past couple years. Although he has long since dispensed with the clownish polo shirts and jeans, many characteristics of his tomgirl wardrobe are remarkably consistent with the way he dressed when he still wore men's clothing, especially in terms of color coordination and clothing size. He also remains committed to buying all his clothes from thrift stores, giving him the appearance of a dumpy bag lady. He summarized his style in November 2014 as "colored leggings, denim skirts mini to knee length, bold colored shirts and blouses." Some of the most frequent themes in his feminine fashion choices are:

• Clashing, violently-opposed colors (particularly red with blue or green)
• Clothing far too small for him
• Dresses or skirts with very high hems
• Leggings, to help with tucking
• Sports bras
• Omission of glasses, possibly due to contact lenses
• Big, floppy, church-lady hats
• Eye makeup, applied poorly and usually purple or blue in color

A deviation from this style was seen in the video of the 26 December 2014 incident, where Chris is shown in purple My Little Pony shades, (probably as a disguise); a silver headband, showing off his ever-receding hairline; his Manchester High sweatshirt; short jeans matched with long, purple socks and/or another pair of pants; and boots (possibly Uggs).

The fact that Chris wore skirts and makeup for each of his court hearings in 2015, even those to which Barb accompanied him, suggests that he consistently dresses this way in public, and that his mother has come to grudgingly accept her son's transgender attire.

In 2015, Chris also started dying his hair blue, but predictably failed to do it properly, and ended up dying it an ugly, seaweed green instead. Combined with his wardrobe that manages to somehow simultaneously resemble the attire of a 5 year old girl and a 65 year old cat lady, the resulting look has been sardonically referred to by Kiwis as "mermaid grandma".

Theory of fashion

The clothes that Christian chooses seem almost like a costume for him, especially his infamous striped shirt. Given that he is autistic, observers speculate that he may have difficulty with identifying things visually, including himself. In Sonichu #7, he alluded to having to take time to study his appearance in a mirror, possibly wearing the shirt in question. In any case, Chris seems to regard his clothing as an integral part of his identity in the same way that trolls do.

Wardrobe

Below is a gallery of most of Chris's wardrobe, prior to the Tomgirl Saga, along with links to the videos they appeared in:

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  "The Classic"
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  "The Advice Dog"
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  "The Impostor"
  1 2

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  "The Napoleon"
  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

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  "The Racing Stripe"
  1 2 3 4 5

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  "The Power Ranger"
  1 2 3

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  "The Dunwich Horror"
  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

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  "The Two-Face"
  1 2 3 4

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  "The Poké-Master"
  1 2

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  "The Horizontal Horror"
  1

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  "The Jerkop"
  1 2

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  "The Greasy Flag"
  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

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  "The Star Fleet Captain"
  1

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  "The Scuderia Autistirarri"
  1 2

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  "The Flag-Waving Patriot"
  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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  "The Captain Falcon"
  1 2 3

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  "The DangerStripe"
  1 2 3 4 5

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  "The Cyclone Joker"
  1 2 3 4 5

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  "The Swamp Monster"
  1 2 3 4 5

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  "The Traffic Light"
  1 2 3 4 5

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  "The Manchild"
  1 2 3 4

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  "The Rugby of Shame"
  1

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  "The PaRappa Shirt"
  1

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  "The Statesmen"
  1 2 3

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  "The Muscle Bra"
  1 2 3 4

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  "The Muscle Bra 2"
  1 2

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  "The Dirty Dashiki"
  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

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  "The Mount and Do Me"
  1

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  "The Duckie Shirt"
  1 2 3 4

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  "The Shamrock Shake"
  1 2 3

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  "The Shamrock Stripes"
  1 2 3 4 5 6 7

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  "The Burgundy Nightmare"
  1

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  "The Burgundy Nightmare Redux"
  1 2

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  "The Bumblebee"
  1 2

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  "The Intimidator"
  1 2 3 4 5 6 7

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  "The Rainbow Flag"
  1

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  "The Big Green"
  1 2

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  "The White Trash"
  1 2 3 4

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  "The Happy Jack"
  1 2 3 4

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  "The Bordeaux Butcher"
  1

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  "The Ivory Poacher"
  1

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  "The Manly Chester"
  1 2

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  "The Clopper"
  1 2 3

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  "The Shattered Heart"
  1 2 3 4

Other aspects of his Fashion sense

Wrist warmer

Wrist warmer

“	Yes, it is a part of my necklace; it's a "Wilson" wrist-warmer I use to cover the discomfort of the number of Links back there.	”
Chris[public source needed]

Chris likely wears this article to counter sensory defensiveness, a condition common among autistics, in which a normally harmless sensation directly triggers a fight-or-flight reaction.

Fanny pack

Chris and Mrs. Sanford.

Chris with Kellie Andes. Chris would have, for the first time in his life, looked like he dressed sharp, if it wasn't for the fanny pack. Note the award that Kellie is holding.

A fanny pack (known as a "bum bag" in the British Commonwealth) is a small fabric pouch secured with a zipper and worn by use of a strap around the hips or waist. Fanny packs reached the peak of their popularity in the late 1980s and early-to-mid 1990s, and have since been considered to be a fashion faux pas. Naturally, Chris wore them throughout the 1990s and 2000s.

Cosplaying

Main article: Chris and cosplaying