The Times of India has a couple suggestions for Father’s Day. And if you follow these, your dad will hate you.

Designer Meera Gupta tells the Times of India to “try for slim-fit, short, bold printed shirts with white wide bottom pants or tightfitted t-shirts with stripes or even prints with off-white high waist pants.”

Another designer, Monika Arora, suggests to “choose a nice pair of bell bottoms with a good amount of flare. Team it up with a nice shirt with polka dots.”

Do this if you’d like your father to hate you. And I don’t mean a passing hate followed by a father-son lunch. I mean a hatred that transcends generations. You will be shamed, and you will be erased from the family tree.

Sauce: Times of India

Well dudes, Father’s Day is in just a couple of days. It’s time we went over some nuts-and-bolts about it.

We’ve got facts, figures and trivia after the jump!

Manhood megasite Man of the House recently conducted a survey about the evolution of the American Dad, and found that in general, dudes don’t think that Father’s Day gets as much attention as Mother’s Day. Eighty percent, as a matter of fact. The other 205, we think, were chicks wearing fake mustaches.

I’ll leave all the numbers to the PR NewsWire article, but let’s just say that a majority of the fathers in the 350-dad study say that they share child-care responsibilities, while still being the primary maintenance man in their home and on their family’s car.

A majority (59%) also said that they are better fathers than their fathers.

And maybe, just maybe there were only 350 participants because the rest were taking care of the kids and getting dinner on the table. Hey man, it’s possible.

Sauce: PR NewsWire

People Magazine has a special Father’s Day essay from President Barack Obama, where he speaks about his own father’s absence.

Barack Sr. left when the now-United States President was only two years old.

Barack Jr. says that he was raised by a “wonderful” mother and grandparents, but wondered what it would have been like if his father was more involved. “It is perhaps for this reason that fatherhood is so important to me,” says Barack in the essay, “and why I’ve tried so hard to be there for my own children.”

He admits there’s more work to be done – saying that during his campaign, “not a day went by that I didn’t wish I could spend more time with the family I love more than anything else in the world.”

The full essay comes out in this Friday’s edition of People.

Sauce: People

Oh, Washington Post. You truly know how to tug at a dude’s heartstrings. And while the WaPo‘s recounting of this AP story doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with Father’s Day, by god, they put it in the title.

So, ladies and gentlemen, I give you the greatest Father’s Day gift ever: home-cured bacon.

And as they mention in the opening line, most people think that it’s a daunting task for the average dude to cure his own bacon. Evidently, the hardest part is finding a butcher that can secure an uncured pork belly for you.

Well, what are you still here for? You’ve got to get that pork belly going if you want to give your dad some homebrew bacon for Father’s Day!

Ben Mankiewicz put up a three-fer story on journalism’s BFF HuffPo the other day. Not only was it about Memorial Day, not only was it about Father’s Day, but it was also about World War II.

Mankiewicz talks about getting his dad to spill the beans on his accomplishments in World War II – and how his dad simply never talked about “it” because he thought he was just doing his job.

Ben’s got a great re-telling of some of his favorite gems from his father, and it’s worth a read if you’ve got a military father who’s convinced that his loose lips could sink ships.

(Nowadays, it’s “a loose Twitter makes people bitter.”)

Sauce: Huffington Post

Parenting.com writer Christine Coppa is a single mother whose ex has moved on – and is now living elsewhere with a new wife and child. Coppa received an invitation for a Father’s Day party at her son’s school, and wrestles with the idea of “stand-ins” for her son’s father. It’s a great little story, and I ended up reading a couple of Coppa’s other linked stories on the topic.

One line resonates with me more than others: “I’m JD’s mom and dad.”

The National Retail Federation, which sounds like they should own a fleet of starships, found in a recent survey that consumers plan on spending more this Father’s Day than in the past. The total is expected to reach $11.1 billion with a B.

The best part? It looks like people aren’t buying the perennial bane of Father’s Day, the tie. According to the survey, here’s the breakdown for where consumers will be spending money:

Department store: 35.2%
Discount store: 32.2%
Specialty store (electronics, gifts, etc.): 26.9%
Specialty clothing store: 8.9%
Online: 22.1%

Somehow, that adds up to 125.3%, so evidently some people are buying for multiple fathers. Insert Maury Povich joke here.

Keep in mind that this data is from a pre-spending survey, so the real numbers could change. Also, it comes from the National Retail Federation, who put a blockade on Naboo in 32 BBY, which lead to an invasion and the Clone Wars. So take whatever they say with a grain of salt.

Many Bothans died to bring us this information.

Sauce: National Retail Federation