[lbo-talk] Re:Weird rich people question

[Brian O. Sheppard]

Faux thrift stores, like Urban Outfitters, will sell you a pair of
fake-faded "vintage" (but not really) jeans for $85. The jeans have fake
"worn" areas and creases dyed into them, to make them look like you bought
them at a thrift store. There are thousands of examples just as nauseating.

Brian

On Thu, 22 May 2003, joanna bujes wrote:


> Nothing unusual though. The young always seem to adopt the fashion of the
> disenfranchised. My little sister went to a very exclusive private school
> in LA (with Cary Grant's daughter) and in the late seventies-early
> eighties, the fashion du jour was to dress up like homeless "bag" people.
> My parents were horrified. They had predicted that she would "turn her nose
> up at them" if she went to this hoity toity school and instead she was
> dressing like a bum. They could not figure it out.
>
> Joanna