It’s Boston Fashion Week and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is extending the celebration throughout October with two relevant exhibits, a party on the first of the month, an appearance by Don Ed Hardy on October 6, and a robust list of fashion-related events.
Ameadowlark clues us in:
... 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.
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.
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. ...
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.
AR provides the timeline (but misses the contributions of Rozzie's own Joseph Abboud).
Martini flits around town taking photos of people in interesting attire.
Krissy reports somebody at South Station yesterday was selling T-shirts reading:
GIANTS SUCK, TOO!
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:
Yeah, sure, hubby and all, but the Missus is referring to the bag she was spotted wearing after last night's game.
1. I don't have to worry about ever seeing any of my neighbors in the $550 rubber pants the Olsen twins are selling at Louis, Boston (which I learned about from a photo that accompanied the dead-tree version of Hayley Kaufman's 100% guaranteed insight-free suck up in yesterday's Globe).
Susie confesses she's grown to like them:
... The hipster-types I go to school with are seriously nicer than many other people I've come across in this world. They're accepting of me, even as I'm waltzing around in my Ugg boots and pink North Face fleece. Maybe they find that my lack of irony actually makes me ironic. ...
The Missus scolds the slob of a man who races past her carrying a fancy purse (and snaps his photo so everybody can join in on the tsk-tsking):
... The bag was way cool. But this all goes back to my belief that if you're going to carry a fancy and chic hand bag, you have to dress the part too. You need to dress up. Look more polished. And he was definitely not! ...
Hey, at least he didn't pair the purse with leggings.
Bostonia Rantida rants about local fashion crimes, including girly patchwork shorts for guys, Madras shorts, Crocs, long shirts and, naturally, leggings:
... I was in Filene's Basement the other day, browsing racks, when a soft-looking material caught my eye. I touched it. Smooth. Then I lifted it away from the rack to see what it was. IT WAS LEGGINGS! NO! I made an audible "Augh!" noise and backed away, wiping my hand on my skirt. Someone near me chuckled. I went to kitchen goods to find a knife so I could cut off my own hand. ...
Some Assembly Required doesn't care how hot it gets: Middle-aged men should just never wear tank tops:
... I would be willing to put on long pants, even on a 96-degree day in August, if I knew that it meant all the other patrons at that restaurant had to do the same thing, and if it would assure me I wouldn't have to see any men in tank tops.
Is it only a matter of time before this shows up in Boston? Already, local fashion know-it-alls and Northeastern students say it could happen:
Jay Calderin, director of creative marketing at the School of Fashion Design in Boston, said male leggings could easily break into the mainstream.
We go now to fashion reporter Alyssa Boehm, who reminds us that while it is, indeed, legal to wear white during the summer, one should never wear blue polka-dot underwear with white pants.
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