Girls... who dress casually! They're called Urbane Tomboys and they're suddenly everywhere! Our own Jezebel Moe is one! She drinks beer and swears! We learned all about this exciting new trend of girls who only wear a little bit of makeup in today's Observer. We hope someday to leave the Upper East Side for the very first time and actually see one of these bizarre boy-girl hybrids in their natural environs. [NYO]
Trend Alert!
12:24 PM on Wed Mar 19 2008
By Pareene
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I've been in love with the Snorg Tees girl for like two years. Call her what you want--she's luscious...
I love these girls! They make my fuck-me boots, fishnets, and lipgloss look even better.
i miss the days when the snorg girl was the only advertising all over the gawker sites. i started finding comfort in her crazy face.
OMG I'm one of those! I drink beer and swear! I hate wearing skirts! I always forget to put on makeup in the morning! I belong to a trendy group for the first time ever! Ack!
@collegecallgirl: but then again so do the hipster hookers with their non-showering, ny times complaininess.
Um, that isn't "Moe" pictured above, is it? Please say no. Otherwise, I have to reconsider my whole "I don't click Jezebel" policy.
Instead of mechanical bulls they ride mechanical bullshit.
@collegecallgirl: Now I know why you hang out with me.
@collegecallgirl: Just guys with twats. Been saying it for years.
The person in that photo may drink and swear, but she is most certainly NOT a boy-girl hybrid!
@CodePink: No way! I hang out with you 'cause you get drunk and kiss girls.
@hypocriteoath: Arty girls have been giving handjobs to fund their whole food visits and cocaine problems since the beginning of recorded time, I think.
@collegecallgirl: Oh. Sweet!
It's a trend? I merely assumed they were moving furniture or something
@LadlySack: @allyzay: The girl in the photo is the snorg girl? I wasn't sure if it was supposed to be Moe.
@collegecallgirl: Glad to help any way I can!
@fiveinchtaint: I want to know!
there is a large picture of moe in the linked article, everyone. moe is not the snorg girl.
@TheHonJudgeSmails:
Hey, all the Jezzies are really hot! All of them.
@fiveinchtaint: moe is the girl picture in the article if you click thru, fwiw. moe is not the snorg girl. the snorg girl is actually pareene.
Um, aren't these just called "College Students?"
Wait, I'm a hybrid now? Have my parents been lying to me all these years telling me about how cute I was when I was born, but really they just picked me up at some sort of creepy Island of Doctor Moreau facility, raising me as best they could despite the obvious handicap of not liking to wear skirts and 3 tons of eyeliner? These people are saints for putting up with such a freak.
I personally enjoy wearing a flannel and corduroys with a black lace thong and push up bra underneath. Gets 'em every time!
@allyzay: Phewwww.
Hot! I love gals in tees and blue jeans.
Also? You guys? Knitting's not just for grandmas anymore.
@collegecallgirl: well... that and with the help of trust funds.
@allyzay: If Pareene is the Snorg Girl, then consider me doubly smitten.
Hip-slick lesbians?
So a pony tail, a v-neck and make-up on a (what's clearly)a girl is now considered androgynous? If so I'm pretty damned depressed now.
@collegecallgirl: I've been trying to get basket weaving to catch on for years now.
Funny, I drink and swear and still have enough brain cells left over to put on something flattering.
@TheHonJudgeSmails: @fiveinchtaint: For Christ sake, guys. The Snorg girl's name is Alice. She goes to Auburn. Sometimes I feel like neither of you have ever stalked an on-line t-shirt model before!
@allyzay: Thanks. So assuming the snorg girl is appropriately aged, I submit the following appropriately juvenile question: real or fake? I'm thinking real.
@pssshwhatever: I have enough brain cells left over to dress comfortably AND an awesome enough rack to get laid! But seriously, I have three dresses and no shoes to match. So I'm like half a girl.
@Nard38: Wow. Many things slip past me, but I'm ashamed of this one.
@fiveinchtaint: i think real! ive seen a photo of her in a low-cut dress and they looked real.
So... the Observer must really be hurting for stories, because this really isn't one. I've dressed like this my whole life, and so have most of my friends. It isn't a "trend". It's just comfy.
One of my friends is a blue-eyed blond Southern tomboy who drives a pickup, goes on cattles drives, camps out in the Amazon, can outhunt and outfish most men and holds the unofficial world's record for peacock bass (think of a piranha the size of a cocker spaniel). She's also finishing her PhD and is prettier by far than that woman in the picture above. Alas, she's accounted for.
@CodePink: I think you and I are in the same boat.
Is "Snorg" the adhesive that is making her hair do that?
CRAZY! The next thing you're gonna tell me is that there are women who sometimes dress in jeans and t-shirts, and sometimes dress up and put on makeup!! I can't handle this gender confusion, I need to put a label on it!
and here I just thought I was lazy. Thanks trends!
The fumes would explain that expression of crazed ecstasy...
@Mike_Jahn: OH MY GOD YOU KNOW ONE OF THESE NEW TRAILBLAZING WOMEN! I THOUGHT THEY ONLY EXISTED IN OBSERVER ARTICLES!
This is the perfect description of every girl I've ever loved who then became a lesbian.
The only trend I want is the trend where women cut the bush. You want us to go down there? Lose the bush.
As for the Urban Tomboys trend, I think it works for certain women, not all women.
It's great for women who have a natural beauty and want to downplay it otherwise, if you have fugface however, a serious rock hairdo with long bangs will do the trick.
What am I doing here? I need to say this on Jezebel!
@BalknChain: If I might say, there is no mistaking you for anything else but a lovely lady.
@Ack: All it takes is one writer to notice AND pull a fast one by her editor.
This is disgusting.
@PimpMyCouch: Yeah, I'd like to dress up, but I fall down in heels. I pay flats from Payless and call it a day.
Moe makes me think of Donna on "That 70's Show." Is that about right?
@CodePink: *buy flats from Payless. See, I don't even know the correct shopping terms.
@Cheap Shot: I totally agree. Women who already look like supermodels look better natural, but some of us have to play up our assets.
@In Other News...: wow, thank you kindly *blushes*
@BalknChain: Stating the obvs, thassall.
Sorry, I must protest. I like my internet chicks without clothes, and there are plenty of them. T-shirts only if they're wet.
On a more serious note, I see that Moe is already backpedaling on her involvement in this trend piece, and while I find the sentiment admirable (as well as the photography), her workplace is clearly not in the "do-not-care" camp of fashion. Between "Snap Judgment" and "The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly", there's a whole clothing swap's worth of judgeypants over there. It's not hypocritical, but the fact alone is a substantial counterpoint to the Observer piece. Many women do care about fashion, often quite seriously.
All that said, it's not a bad thing to care just a little bit.
@collegecallgirl: Isn't it also as simple as what one feels comfortable in? Which makes a person confident, and therefore, sexy?
@CodePink: No.
Just kidding, of course everyone should wear whatever the hell they want. There is such a thing as not trying enough, but there is also such a thing as trying too hard. Which may be worse.
@BrianVan: that is all besides the issue that using the word "fashion" to mean "fancy dresses and make-up" is disingenuous, at best. saying "i'm anti-fashion" while wearing $200 jeans is the most bullshit statement in the entire world, and it's right there, in that article.
@collegecallgirl: Which is why I wear a burlap sack with holes cut out around my boobies.
moe called me a cunt one time. that was pretty hot.
@Cheap Shot: I'll trim the bush if you shave the balls.
@CodePink: absosmurfly! now look, if anyone ever dared describe me as a tomboy I'd plant a stiletto heel so far up your ass you'd wind up with a punctured lung, but I don't wear a hell of a lot of make-up and my hair's been in a ponytail since the 7th grade. but that's because it's how I'm comfortable, not because I don't care! this is so silly - I'm wearing jeans & a t-shirt right now, but I still look GIRLY. you don't have to be a painted whore to look feminine! sheesh!
@CodePink: youch! chafing!
@Fuzzy_duffel_bag: That being said, today I am wearing a dress. And motorcycle boots.
@CodePink: Jeans can totes still be flattering, but I don't buy in to the idea that they're comfortable. Because I've worn jeans. And they suck. But I have dozens of dresses, and a nice rack to go in them as well, but only 3 pairs of high heels, none of which have been worn in the past 6 months. Wearing a dress and flats is like getting full credit for wearing a nightgown all day, plus I look better in that than in pants, so I feel like I'm winning this battle with femininity.