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WEEK OF FEBRUARY 24, 2009
ChiCago edition Vol 1 no 5
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FASHION WEEK
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Chris O’Shea
| 2/17/09 |
I’m a guy who appreciates ashion, so yes, at one point in my lie, I thought it was sociallyacceptable to wear pink shirts and no, I don’t eel like there will ever be a time when I can or-give mysel or that.Because I try to be stylish, I’ve participated in almost every ashion trend, rom Jeans ThatLook Like They’re Old But Aren’t to the Great Graphic Tee Epidemic o 07. I hear the latterended when a GUESS? manager demanded a blue t-shirt - without an ironic helicopter on it -and threatened to hold the store employees hostage until he got one. Yes, it was a brutal as itsounds.The one trend that I simply cannot, and will not adopt though, is wearing skinny jeans.I do not wear skinny jeans or two simple reasons: 1) I’m not a rock star in a band withsongs about how sad trees are when you think about it and 2) I don’t hate mysel. I eithero these were true, I’d probably be wearing skinny jeans every day o my lie, but thankullythey’re not.The skinny jean look on men doesn’t work or several reasons.For starters, they hug the equipment too tightly. Our equipment, as ugly as it can be, needsspace to operate. It is not meant to be squeezed together like Rosie O’Donnell in a spandexjumper. Without space a man’s equipment begins to ache, and with the hurting comes the read-justing, and with the readjusting comes the public humiliation that makes men eel sad, whichcauses them to buy more skinny jeans. It’s a vicious cycle.Also, skinny jeans display what men’s legs really are: scrawny twigs that somehow supportour bodies. I you surveyed men across the nation, you’d nd that about 87% o them havetiny legs. The only ones who don’t abuse steroids, and you know what they say about men onsteroids- well, nothing really, because men on steroids have big muscles.Finally, skinny jeans make other men hate you. There is no explanation necessary here.You will lose riends i you choose to wear jeans that look like they belong on the rack at BabyGAP.There really are no benets to the skinny jean look or men and it doesn’t matter how hardthey try.I won’t be taking part o this trend. Instead, I’ll ride the wave out, and wait or what I hearis the next big thing: leopard print thongs. On top o the pants.I’ve just got one thing to say about that - rawrr!
FIvE REASONS TO GET ExCITED ABOUT MICHELLE OBAMA’SvOGUE COvER
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veronica
| 2/11/09 |
I’d love to take this most recent cover as a sign o a turnaround at Vogue; however I haven’tseen the entire issue and am a little doubtul that the rest o the issue is as lovely as the cover.But here are ve reasons why this is the best Vogue cover I’ve seen in years:She’s not an actress, a socialite, or the spawn o an actress or a1.socialite. Perhaps most importantly, she’s not Keira Knightley.She’s smiling a genuine, unpretentious smile.2.While I believe she was most certainly airbrushed (it’s what Vogue does3.best, or should I say worst?), she looks natural and believable.She’s not emaciated, Eastern European, or ourteen years old, like4.the rest o the models in the magazine are sure to be.Depending on the interviewer, the odds are pretty damn good that she’ll5.have something interesting and relevant to say. Imagine that!
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Lauren Gibaldi
| 2/12/09 |
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One night during my sophomore year o college my riend Joe decided to shave his beard.His hair grew incredibly ast, so it would only be a matter o days beore his shaggy appearancereappeared. Regardless, he decided to be clean shaved or one reason or another.In my cramped dorm room bathroom, he got out the razor and did what most guys dowhile removing a ton o acial hair - he made designs. Patterns. He wanted to see just how badhis acial hair could look. In the end, we decided his Fun Manchu was the best and he shouldclearly leave it on or a day, showing it o to all o his classmates. Joe never turned down a chal-lenge.The next day, he and I walked across campus, to the urthest building rom our dorm,together. He received awkward glances and responded with nervous laughter. In our Article andEssay class, our wonderul, teacher who never held anything back (she once revealed to us thatshe contracted an STD during college), asked him i his razor broke. We all laughed. Two classesand hundreds o looks later, he nally shaved o the acial hair.Here’s the thing. A riend o mine rom college is currently sporting the same acial hairmonstrosity, only he isn’t wearing it as a dare or a victim o a broken razor, no, he’s wearing itbecause it’s ironic he told me.Ironic?I don’t get this hipster culture nowadays. Ugly acial hair, or clothing even, is consideredcool because it’s ironic. Maybe i’m just not getting the irony o the situation. I think it allstarted with the beards. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a an o the beards. Certain guys can pull themo really well, so I was completely okay with this trend. I even preer scru sometimes to aclean ace. Somehow, the beard turned into the mustache. How the mustache ever became cool(outside o Halloween costumes, rapists, and my ather circa 1980), I never understood. That, o course, grew to the strange, yet incredibly popular acial hair o today. And the matching tightpants, o course.(Girls aren’t exempt rom this hipster liestyle, o course. There are the haircuts, the 80’sinspired outts that shouldn’t be brought back, etc...etc...)The same goes or venues.Back in college, my riends and I requently visited a small dive bar called Poor Paul’s. Itwas cramped, smokey, dark, dirty and absolutely perect. We went so oten that the bouncerknew me by ace and the bartender knew my drink. It was a place where we could hang out,play the games on the screen, and just talk. We didn’t have to dress up or impress anyone. Itwas, in a strange sense, home.It took me a while to nd a similar place here. I nally ell upon one around 20 minutesrom where I live. My riends and I used to go regularly until we all got 9-5s that interrupted ourweeknight hangouts. Like Poor Paul’s, it was small and smokey. We loved it there.It came to my attention that apparently or the last ew months it has become the popularhang out or these same acial haired hipsters. They like it because it’s ironic. It’s so run down,it’s cool! Apparently, they’ve vacated it now, gone o to an even more ironic bar, one calledHoops. Clearly, the previous occupants have been run o.There’s a great line rom the musical In The Heights which exemplies that, regarding thecity o Washington Heights in NY: “In ve years, when this whole city’s rich olks and hipsters,who’s gonna miss this raggedy little business?” From my understanding Brooklyn is now thehipster capital. (Obviously, there are some exceptions). I hear Williamsburg has more indy ansthan Jewish people. Go gure!Like many trends, this one will probably go out o style within the next couple o years.It’s not that I don’t understand people trying to make their dierence in the world, stand outas individuals, I do, believe me, I just don’t get it in this sense. Since when was making yoursel look as bad as possible...attractive?Maybe I’m just getting too old.
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Zoe Brock
| 2/15/09 |
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us trendy brings PossibleFashion Fame to everyone
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Jennifer an Groe
| 1/12/09 |
I you’re a ashion designer or model whobalks at the idea o being mortied on ProjectRunway or showcasing yesterday’s trends or toothick hips, then you’re in luck. Now you can say“You’re out” to Heidi and riends and head onlineor ame and ortune. Though it may not be quitethat simple, new online ashion company UsTrendy is aiming to be the go to ashion site oraspiring designers, models, and ashion anaticsalike.Us Trendy combines the design competi-tion concept o sites like Threadless and Col-larFree, and throws budding ashion designersand models into the mix. The site is simple in purpose and practice. Wannabe designers uploadtheir creations to the site, users vote on the designs they like, and Us Trendy produces and sellsthe most popular designs in their online store. The same ormula works or models too; modelsupload their best shots, users vote on each photo, and the highest rated models are given thekeys to the catwalk or Us Trendy ashion shows.This type o site appears to be an excellent platorm or people trying to break into thehighly competitive Fashion industry. Founder Sam Sisakhti’s says his motivation to create thesite came rom personal experiences. “I originally elt the need to create UsTrendy when I sawthe struggles that riends o mine – aspiring ashion designers – went through to nd viablecareer opportunities in ashion industry, this coupled with the lack o viable outlets or ashionenthusiasts to express their voice in deciding the trends and clothing produced each season.”Sisakhti’s vision is great, and we hope Us Trendy can deliver on their promise, but I have towonder how this idea will pan out. With voting sites, there’s always the possibility that peoplewill game the system. Us Trendy could see designs with high vote counts but little to no massappeal go into production, with the return on their community investment being more dreadulthan wearing white ater Labor Day. Plus, consumers already have a plethora o online optionsor nding ashion trends, what’s going to be the driving actor to get them to buy rom UsTrendy?
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a short essay about theimPortance oF a good coat
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Winona
| 1/26/09 |
Once upon a time, I had to go to court to dispute a speeding ticket. I was seventeen andhad been caught careening down my small town’s main street at 73 miles an hour, on my wayto turn in a history paper that, in retrospect, was not important at all. Ater sobbing to the statetrooper about the vital importance o said history paper, I was issued a citation or $250. I eltan immediate rush o panic about telling my dad, combined with excitement about the chanceto wear a dramatically demure outt to court and plead my innocence.I spent weeks planning a oolproo trial wardrobe and deense. I decided I would wear acream skirt with fower embroidery, a black shirt with pearl buttons and a rounded collar, blacktights, ballet fats, a red vintage scar, and round sunglasses. I would say that i society wantedto persecute me or striving to be a good student, then I would dutiully pay the price, but Iwould orever lament the injustice o a legal system that so callously ignored a citizen’s right tolie, liberty, and the 73-mile-an-hour pursuit o an A on my essay about the industrial revolu-tion.The day o my court date, everything went according to plan: my outt looked great, andmy note cards were in order. When I walked out the door, it was chilly and I elt a raindrop, so Iran back inside and grabbed a random coat rom the laundry room. This random coat happenedto be my mom’s dilapidated feece pullover, but I didn’t think much o it as I slipped it on andheaded to the courthouse.When I arrived, I strutted through the big doors and down the hall to my assigned court-room. I whipped o my glamorous shades and aced a huge room packed with trac oendersand nonviolent elons. People were glaring and the judge’s bench was much more imposingthan I’d anticipated and the whole thing was very scary. I dropped my note cards into my bagand perched on the edge o a bench next to a woman with a crying baby and I elt nothing likeWinona Ryder.The judge came in and the clerk started calling names or rapid-re public pleas. I washyperventilating. About teen minutes in, they called my name. I stood up on wobbly legs andthey asked me or my plea. I opened my mouth to speak but suddenly all I could think was, “Ohmy god, I’m wearing a feece covered in dog hair.”“Guilty,” I said.
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