Jailhouse Chic

[Carl Remick]

> >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.
> >
> >Carl
>
>
>hahahahaha.
>
>blue jeans/dungarees and bandanas  and shit kickers as well as a shitload 
>of other icons from the 60s were all about mimicing being working class.

Hohohohoho.  Tell me about it.  I think there's all the difference in the 
world, though, between dressing like a farmer, mill worker, stevedore or 
whatever and wearing an inmate's uniform.

Carl

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