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...WARMISH--and then coldish and later rainyish--autumn afternoon, I put on my one pair of comfortable shorts and a T-shirt and marched over to the MAC. I flashed ID, went up to the boxing office on the third floor and met Tommy Rawson: boxing coach, octagenarian and giver of wisdom. I introduced myself...
...rhinestone collar w/name and electronic cat door opener"; about women from Los Angeles hiring migrant workers to wait in line for them to buy watches shaped like cucumbers or bacon and eggs. On Hollywood Boulevard I saw a HISTORIC LANDMARK sign outside the site of "The First Custom T-Shirt Shop in California," flyers on the wall promoting a group called Venal Opulence and, in a store across the street, "Confucius X-Rated Mini-Condom Fortune Cookies." No wonder, I thought, that when I tell people I live in California -- worse, that I choose to live in California -- they look...
...Style" adverstising campaign. In glossy magazines all over the country, Gap took out full page ads for which famous photographers like Anne Liebovitz and Herb Ritts took pictures of famous or interesting Americans wearing Gap clothes. Mostly these people wore the most basic Gap clothes, often just a white T-shirt and jeans...
...message of the ads is that these famous people don't need fancy clothing to express their individuality. They are cool regardless of what clothing they wear. So a white T-shirt does not necessarily mean a bland personality--it means that you are not what you wear...
...radical, gang-inspired fashion undercurrent of the underclass urban scene (Blue for Crips, red for Bloods, black and silver for everyone--Go Raiders!) percolates up into the middle class. Slumming has always been popular, but even it has been Gapified--reduced to the X hat and the Michael Jordan T-shirt. Gapification is a great neutralizer, stripping violence and excitement from the urban scene...