GODSPEAKS

GODSPEAKS
"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

Friday, September 14, 2007

Wear are you.

I like it when clothing items and accessories take on new names based on the people who are most seen wearing them.

Examples :

The Painter's Cap
The Aviator Sunglasses
Clamdigger Pants
...and, my favorite, the Trucker Hat.

I am pretty sure these items were not originally marketed to the very people who would make them famous. They become mocked, then trendy, then ridiculed, then worn in retro irony by guys trying to punk each other....later seen everywhere. I don't know many aviators, but, circa 1986, these things were a-plenty.

Let's not forget the bane of philandering married men everywhere, the Stripper Perfume. If you close your eyes, and turn "Pour Some Sugar On Me" up real loud on the stereo, you can relive the stench using only mind-power. Just as the "dancer" enters your 10ft circle of personal space, it smells like she has just been dipped in a mixture of turpentine, glade plug-ins, and that pink powdered soap you used in shop class. It does NOT wash off easily, I am told.
My all time favorite in this category is the "Wife Beater T-shirt." 70 years ago, these were just called T-Shirts, and everyone slapped around the missus a bit. As spousal abuse fell out of fashion, it seemed that the spending your evening around the 'hood in only your WBT told the whole street that you were still likely to lay a smack down from time to time. Some embrace the look. Personally, I don't think the term is all that funny. And you know who else does not think it is funny? Beaten wives. You know they are thinking "Oh Shit, he's got that shirt on again."

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