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Arioso_hum
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Posted on Saturday, October 16, 2004 - 10:54 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Black America,

There is something that I have become acutely aware of within our culturally preferential clothing styles. It is the inundation of cheap, booty-azz clothing, shoes, and the etc. and anything that can be peddled in Black stores/streets with the prerequisite Italian name on it. I went shopping at an outlet shoe store today. It was hard not to notice the marketing ploy of playing anything ending in the letters: i, o, or a.

The saddest part of it all was the facts that most of these people were buying shoes looked fashionable but were built like Pro Keds. The shoe soles of a lot of these "expensive looking Italiano falsetto" were mere plastic glued to the bottom of more "leather/crocodile/lizard looking plastic".

Why do we/they (pluralism) fall for such garbage? How did this nonsense get instilled into the fashion identity of Black America? And why can't we/they put a stop to wearing stuff of some make believe Italian that we have most likely never heard of before and have definitely never seen? The majority of the unforturnates that I speak of have never worn clothing that was actually made in Italy.

And the price of these inexpensive imports is actually quite high: bad corns, painful bunions, and toes that look like knarled roots. And we simply can no longer afford not to see the truth.


Rondall
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A_womon
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Posted on Sunday, October 17, 2004 - 03:14 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

You know you right! And then, when you see the stupid patchwork velour sweat suits that they make in size one hundred for maxium sag, I say to myself, who told anyone that mess looks good? I mean, the shirts and jackets with black young men rolling dice and I mean I guess I love "Fat Albert" as much as the next person, but does anyone know if Mr Cosby had any complaints about companies who gangsterized him and plastered Thug Albert all over EVERY DAMN THANG? Did he sit back and complain about the way young men dress in ther inner city while collecting his royalties?
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Arioso_hum
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Posted on Monday, October 18, 2004 - 12:57 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

'Fashion sense' in our communities represents the epitome of an oxymoron.
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Arioso_hum
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Posted on Monday, October 18, 2004 - 12:59 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

By the way, I would like to point out that there are exceptions to the rule of designer names ending in: i, o, or possibly a.

i.e.: Karl Kani
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Crystal
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Posted on Monday, October 18, 2004 - 01:48 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Arioso_hum asks:
How did this nonsense get instilled into the fashion identity of Black America?

Answer: just check out Free and AJ on 106 & Park.

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Abm
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Posted on Monday, October 18, 2004 - 10:47 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Rondall,

What is exactly is your problem here? That Black foks are 'worshiping' namebrands? Or Black foks are 'worshiping' the WRONG namebrands?

Because it seems to me at a certain point, ALL of it is a bizarre form of idoltry, regardless of whethers it's Gucci or Cucci.

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