Jailhouse Chic

[Carl Remick]

>On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Carl Remick wrote:
>
> > Sure commodity fetishism is an old trick, but this nostalgie de la
> > boue is a startlingly new variation. In earlier eras, the alienated
> > masses wanted to mimic the look of the affluent, not those doing hard
> > time.
>
>Come now, Carl.  There's nothing new about poor people idolizing bandit
>kings.
>
>Michael

Well, a bandit *king* is one thing -- picture Al Capone in his snappy fedora 
and snazzy suits.  But some poor schmo wearing prison fatigues is something 
else.

Carl
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