 I wouldn't want to break the internet with how damn fashionable I am. What do we think guys? What do we think? Am I cool yet? Here's a good question. Where should we hide the body, Joe's followers? Where would be a good place to hide the body? Hello there, my beautiful, lovely, talented, and delightful internet friends. Welcome back to my channel. Thank you so much for joining me here today on Footless Joe, where I am still Joe and I am still missing a foot. If you've been on this channel before, I know that you've met T-shirt Joe. You've probably met Hoodie Joe. You've probably met Stretchy Pants Joe, even Athletic Shorts Joe. But have you ever met super cool and trendy Joe with a dog messing up her cool shot? Super cool and stylish Joe. I didn't think so. Today, we are going to be going on quite an adventure. So, I have mentioned before in passing that clothes are a bit of a difficult subject for me. Since losing my leg, since becoming a below-the-knee amputee, clothes got even more difficult than they already were. And I fall into this pattern of basically only wearing sweatpants, athletic shorts, primarily, hoodies, and t-shirts. And there's not a darn thing wrong with any of those. I love them. They will be staples in my closet until the day that I die. But sometimes I get really bored with that. Sometimes I get really bored wearing the same thing. I feel like how I'm presenting myself to myself, to the world, doesn't reflect what I want it to be. I think we talk about clothing and presentation often as like a vanity thing. But for me, I think that clothing can be a pretty powerful thing. Like, it's a creative expression of yourself. And I've been creatively not expressing myself through the clothes that I've worn for a very long time, especially because it's a little more difficult with a prosthetic leg. So, with that being said, today we're going to go on an adventure. 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Please use my code if you find a piece that you love. I guarantee at least a few things will probably catch your eye. So if there's someone in your life, be it yourself or someone else who likes to wear jewelry, please check them out. Like I said, use that code. And with that being said, let's dive in. So I happen to know some pretty cool and stylish people. One of my very good friends, Megan, is very into and interested in fashion and is fantastic putting outfits together. So there's that combined with the fact that I do not have a ton of money to spend on new clothes. Like that is just not in the budget right now. And so I asked her about how she might feel about going on a thrift shopping fashion adventure. And she said, of course. So let's go meet the person I know who's always been deep down in there somewhere. Cool, fashionable, stylish Joe. Looked like a bug. Let's do this. They wanted a good will with some pictures that sort of references of what we were looking for and kind of the outfits that she wanted to style me in. So we're going to look up. Let's look at some color ideas here. I'm calling this one Michael right a horse. I'm interested if I could pull that off. I've always dreamed of being a Dalmatian. Taking a detour here for some purple rain boots. Yeah, I feel like these are not high fashion. But practical for Colorado. And also they're super cute. And also they're purple. But the odds of me getting these on my on my leg and staying upright are pretty low. Let's see what happens here. Oh, no. Well, we tried and that's all that matters. Try and what matters. Disaster has struck. We didn't think about the pandemic and the fact that fitting rooms are going to be closed. So we're going to have to make some guesses. Yes, this could all go together potentially. I feel very America right now. Yeah, you showed red, white and blue vibes. Is this fashion? So we just discovered that this tank top is actually Jim marine, which is the children's brand. But it fits. But it fits. We're having some misses here with our trench coats. Yeah, the trench coats. Serial killer vibes. It looks like they're naked underneath. If all else fails, I have factor in. It's a win. Best t-shirt. It's a win. All right. So, Sam, what do we think about this oversized sweatshirt? Do we feel like it might be edging on too oversized? Like this is... Wear your hands at... Poke your fingers out, let's see. Yeah, I definitely think we could make it work. It would look good with some bike shorts. Starfish. This is great. Oversized sweater with some bike shorts. Excellent. Okay, cool. Yeah, yeah. Oversized men's sweater. We're thinking... Tucked in somewhere. Okay, now that you can actually see our faces without masks, I think we got some pretty good stuff. We did. We did get some good stuff. I'm excited. It's a little outside of my comfort zone, but not too far as to be like, you know, impractical. So we're gonna go see what kind of outfits we can assemble with the rest of our wardrobe. Yes, good stuff for thrift fine friends. Having assembled our raw supplies, our canvas, if you will, for the outfits to come, we headed back to Megan's house to actually start trying some of this on. So one of the big goals here, at least for me personally, was to try things that were a little bit outside of my comfort zone, try things that would usually be like, nah, I'm good, I'm fine. Let me just keep my t-shirts. But I wanted to go on this journey of sort of letting Megan push me outside of my comfort zone, and it was a lot of fun. It was awesome to kind of be like, yeah, I could pull that off, or yeah, I feel like I do look good in that. Welcome to the part of the video where I completely forgot to turn on my mic. So what I'm saying is, look at the clothes we got. Aren't those cool? Okay. And also this is what I look like normally. Megan's been turning to a fashion god. Let's continue. Okay. We have fashion, numeral, uno. This is not like anything I've ever wanted to put together on my own, but I kind of really like it. So this is my sweater that we thrifted from H&M. Like if I could learn, if I could teach myself to wear skirts, it would be so handy for leg stuff because I don't have to worry about like pants or shorts or anything like that. Look at Megan just put together. Yes. I could totally see myself wearing. Like either of those. Yeah. And I, I myself because I'm not, I don't have a amputated prosthetic leg. You didn't check your leg out. Yeah. I'd probably pair it with a heeled boot, but I think for Joe, definitely would look fine with like a flat, either one of these outfits. I'm just going to stick. I'm sprouting for this one. The pants, just snug. They're a little snug. You're seeing something like this. A pair of boot cut jeans, just a simple tee underneath. Yeah. And then a leather jacket that we first did. I think we just found a winner. I don't know. I feel, I feel stuck together. Okay. So one of the relatively annoying things about clothing right now is at the bottom of my prosthesis, I have this Velcro strip and seems to be losing some of the stickiness. So when I was trying to put these on, it just like pulls it right up and then it gets stick to the clothing. I've got to figure out a better way of making that work. Maybe like electrical tape or something. The sloth shirt was not part of the fashion agenda. Oh, we're going to make it a part of the fashion agenda. But we're going to make it a part. Okay. I feel like this is like, this is more in my wheelhouse of like jeans, random tee shirt, and then if I feel an extra fancy, maybe check it over. Yeah. But yeah, we just got the sloth shirt which we bought for fun, but we're going to make it work. So here we go. Blast of the past of turtlenecks. I grew up wearing turtlenecks and then I got made fun of for wearing too many turtlenecks because turtlenecks went out of style. Suck it in, girls. Suck it in, girls. Suck it in. A good basic never dies. That's right. And this is, like this is just, this is super cozy and cute and just fun. So I've been told that the bike short look with like baggy clothes is in style. Yes. So this is kind of like a Kaia Gerber meets Princess Diana going to go do her aerobics. Also this would be super easy. Like again with my prosthetic because it, because like they're long enough to be like, I would wear this in normal life. The bag, you're the better. Yeah, the bag, you're the better. What do we think guys? What do we think? Am I cool yet? This is the Joe Megan concoction. I think I like it. Yeah, I do. Joe X. Our fashion line coming soon. So clothing has always been like this weird topic for me. I was, I was raised as a homeschool kid which was wonderful. I loved that experience, but I already felt different than other kids and then like I didn't really care that much about the clothes that I was wearing. So it just sort of like reinforce that fact. So it's really fun to like play around with different styles and be like, what, what could I be? Like I can do more than just wearing like a hoodie and jeans, which is my daily at the moment. Yeah, this is, this is great. So once we were done upstairs, assembling our favorite outfits, we went downstairs where Brian was waiting with his opinions. Hold on, Brian. Brian's here. What do you think of my cool sexy clothes? I see how it objectively is a good thing, but I know her and it's just tough. It's tough to take it seriously. What? I am a, I am a legit badass. What is she talking about? She's so stylish. Turns out he is not a fan of cool stylish Joe. He likes hoodie and t-shirt Joe and frankly, I can't blame him for that. She's pretty great, but we thought we'll press on and see if a few other outfits in this fashion show would do it for him. All right, look number two. It's, they, they didn't. They really didn't. You're the worst. It's big. It is a little bit big on me, but I feel cool. Yeah. You look like- That's the point. You look like, is this still recording? It looks like you robbed your mother's wardrobe in 1994. Here, here's a good question. Where should we hide the body, Joe's followers? Where would be a good place to hide the body? I'll tell Elaine Bennett from Seinfeld. We found her stolen clothes. So we're, so we're over two on the outfits on husband thumbs up, but I'm thinking this next one, which consists of featuring a sloth, could be our winner. We're going to find out. Gail of one to 10, are we doing better? You're doing much better than the other two. Okay. Objectively one to 10? Yeah. I'm going to say two to 10, six point eight. Being coerced at least one point in that direction though. Peggy is what's in Brian. But I liked them and I'd love to hear what you have to think down below. So allow me to introduce you to model Joe's fashion show in front of a Christmas tree with a lot of puppies interrupting. This is just like, it's all very different. It like expands upon what it already wears, especially like the bike shorts and like baggy sweaters looking. I'm loving this. I am as well. I am as well. I had so much fun with this whole project with all of the pieces that we got. It was under $50, which is usually like what a pair of jeans costs. So that was pretty fantastic. And I learned a little bit more about like style and other things that I could do. And again, I just want to make a quick note that like, I'm not a, I'm not really into fashion. That's never been something that I followed, but finding a new style, a new way to creatively express myself on the canvas of my physical form was really cool. I don't want to stress this point too much, but frankly there are times when I'm really uncomfortable presenting myself to the world in any way. There are days they are rare, but there are some days when I'm like, I hate my prosthetic sleeve feel like it looks weird or there are days when I'm like wearing leggings and boots or whatever where it's very clear that my calf disappears on one side. And I know it looks fine. Like I don't have a problem with it 99% of the time. Other times I struggle with discomfort with what I look like. That's something I'll continue to actively work through. I'm really happy with the way I'm able to see my body the vast majority of the time, but there are some days when I struggle with it. So for me, doing something like this is really therapeutic, sort of celebrating and being creative and trying new things with my body and with how I'm presenting myself is pretty great. I know this video is a little bit different than other videos I've done. Don't worry, I am not turning into a fashion blogger mostly because I wouldn't want to break the internet with how damn fashionable I am. Thank you so much for going on this adventure today. I realized that there's like zippers on these sleeves and it's making a lot of noise. So fashion apparently comes at the price of audio quality. Huge thank you again to our sponsor Anna Luisa. I really appreciate you guys partnering with me for this video. I'd really appreciate it if you check out their site, use their code like I said below if there's pieces you're interested in. On the side note, this company has also been an absolute delight to work with as someone who works with a number of different sponsors. And I think that says a lot about our company as well. So check them out. A ginormous thank you to my patrons over on Patreon for continuing to support this channel and enabling me to do what I do here. Thank you. I am eternally grateful. And to you watching this video right now, thank you so much for spending a few minutes out of your day here with me today and also here with stylish, cool, fashionable Joe. You could be anywhere in the world doing anything and you chose to spend a few minutes here with me and I really appreciate that. Now if you find yourself thinking, I liked hoodie and t-shirt Joe, don't you worry, she'll still be around. But the powerful feeling faux leather jacket Joe will probably make visits on occasion as well. I love you guys. I'm thinking about you and I'll see you in the next video. Bye guys. So loud. Why is it so loud?