fashion

Some Bostonians forget a prime fashion directive

adamg — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:14:39 -0400

You can always tell an Allston guy

adamg — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:23:36 -0400

... If you see a dude wearing girl jeans anywhere near Boston, ask him if he's from Allston. Nine times out of ten, he'll do a double take and say "yeah, how'd you know?" The other time out of ten, he'll say "Brighton."

Via Allston City Limits.

Oh, yes, dear, you look completely unique

adamg — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:53:22 -0400

No, you don't look the least bit like every other Goth girl, ever.

Via Miss M.

Dreaded red

adamg — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:45:19 -0400

Alicia reports:

Yikes. I've seen 2 men willingly walking around Boston in Nantucket Red pants today. ... Thankfully neither pair of pants had little lobsters, hunting dogs or anchors embroidered all over them.

Somebody's buying the stuff.

But are they topped with Yankees caps?

adamg — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:23:48 -0400

Be reports on a new fashion trend in her neighborhood: Brooklyn T-shirts:

... I don't know, but this sort of strikes me indistinguishable from hanging around Harvard Yard wearing a Barnard* t-shirt.

*or Columbia or Yale, etc. ...

Fashion faux pas goes uncorrected in downtown Boston

adamg — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:30:03 -0400

Lori Magno reports that, as a kind, caring Bostonian, she would have tucked in this woman's tag yesterday - if only the woman weren't smoking, creating a wall of stink that overrode Magno's Samaritan instincts.

The history of fashion in Boston

adamg — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:00:53 -0400

AR provides the timeline (but misses the contributions of Rozzie's own Joseph Abboud).

A street-fashion blog

adamg — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:51:19 -0400

Martini flits around town taking photos of people in interesting attire.

Hot new fashion statement

adamg — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:27:56 -0500

Krissy reports somebody at South Station yesterday was selling T-shirts reading:

GIANTS SUCK, TOO!

Fashion 911

adamg — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:30:37 -0500

The news that the long arm of the law grabbed some ass the other night on Commercial Street (scroll down a bit when you click) has Amy Derjue wondering if Boston Police will now enforce fashion laws against too short tunics on Lansdowne Street and at the Alley:

We've noticed that a lot of college women don't quite understand recent fashion trends. The racks at H&M are filled with tunic-length garments that are meant to be worn with tights or leggings, but some young women are wearing them bare legged. ...