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...four years, I have found the attitude of folks inside the company pretty interesting, and maybe you will too. Not people like Bill Gates, or those who write the legal briefs and press releases, but the ordinary software developer in the cafeteria. Call him the Man in the Plaid Flannel Shirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The View from the Cafeteria | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

...Abercrombie & Fitch sells a technicolor teen lifestyle--one of the reasons it is the brand of the moment. At A&F headquarters near Columbus, Ohio, retailing has become akin to moviemaking. The theme is popularity, and it's packaged, marketed and playing at a mall near you. Every flannel and fleece pullover is choreographed to present the appearance of effortless cool. Yes, the tag on the $59.90 paratroop pants proclaims that they've been TESTED, but that's a prop, part of the romantic retail fantasy. "You buy into the emotional experience of a movie," says the director, CEO Michael...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Abercrombie's Beefcake Brigade | 2/14/2000 | See Source »

Yesterday the figure-it-out school was handed a major defeat, and I, admittedly, was at the forefront. Just last week my parents asked how I judge if the day deserves khakis or jeans, a T-shirt, a fleece, a flannel or all three...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Dartboard: Come Again Some Other Day | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...preview audiences with its maze of guy angst. (Since when have guys had angst? Girls patented angst.) The story of a charismatic anarchist (Brad Pitt) who starts up a group of men who beat the crap out of each other for fun, drawing in yuppie men chucking their grey flannel suits for a life of chaos. Other yuppie violence movies have stirred the male psyche recently - American Psycho and American Beauty just to name two. These movies all explore the deeper male mind, swimmingly (or perhaps frighteningly?) portraying academic vision of the subliminal self of the modern male. This string...

Author: By Deidre A. Mask, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The mystery of machismo: where's lifetime for men? | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...high school football game, or to pick some apples, bring them home and have Mom's homemade pie for dessert. Maybe there's time to jump in a pile of leaves or two, and then I'll spend the rest of the day picking them off my dirty flannel shirt. At night, I'd like nothing better than to throw some logs on the fire, turn on a football game and sit back with The New York Times and a plastic New York Giants-sponsored mug of apple cider...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: How To: Cross a Street | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

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