Secrets of the City

go to chicago if you really want to waste your money that badly?

Who says it’s a waste? I have plenty of money hanging in my closet that I never wear.

Fashion emergency…someone page Alexis immediately.

It’s not just the high-end stuff, either: Have you seen Macy’s selection for menswear? Tragic. Marshall Fields is pretty much the only place that stocks some of the brands — Ben Sherman, Lucky, Buffalo, Kenneth Cole I guess in a pinch — that actually look decent on guys. Does Macy’s carry any of this? Minimally. Not even their New York store has decent menswear.

Hopefully Macy’s locally will expand their selection based on Marshall Fields’ previous one, but I somehow doubt it. I have a feeling we’ll all be forced to either wear Fubu or just universally shop online!

$300 on a Prada t-shirt is bad, but what really gets me are the guys who spend $50 on the faux vintage T. Like the fake 1970s Elton John concert shirt. It’s hipster naugahide.

Jonny — if you’ve been hitting the Brookdale Marshall Field’s, you’ve already been forced to wear Fubu.

Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the metrosexuals?

Is faux-vintage really fooling anybody?

Sadly, it does. There were some girls at The Sample Room last week who were dazzled by the faux-vintage Kung Fu shirt worn by their friend.

Tragic.

Maybe you and I could start an intervention service?

“Stop right there, sir. Rich, get the tag.”

“Just as I suspected: Hollister. Where do you get off…“

“Rich, settle down. Son, you’re not fooling anybody with that rag.”

Ah, I can see it all now….

You could demand they remove the garb in question. Could be quite rewarding.

Then Rich and I would end up with a warehouse full of shirts we could not ethically resell.

Except maybe in Japan. They don’t know any better.

Well… if that’s what you want to focus on…

cristina – you’ve already made my head explode once today. I’m trying to simmer down before I have to stand up from my desk, you know…

I kid!

… and work on polishing your scarlett “m”?

Touche.

We’ll be like a fashion-oriented Minoriteam!

“Indie! I sense an Indonesian knock-off! Get the fauxmobile!”

Go to In Toto or Grethen House if you’re wanting to drop a s-load on fashion with spendy, trendy labels. If getting up and having to look is a drag, there’s eBay and Bluefly to satify your overspending habits.

*vroom vroom*

oh boy.

Does anyone remember the pissed-off letter to the editor that was written to the MNDaily from the President of the Campus Fancy Pants Club when someone mis-used the label? He and his co-horts were tired of being portrayed in a deraugatory light by the paper, and listed all the benefits of wearing fancy pants. I’ll try and find the link.

My bad: the organization was Tengo Pantelones.

It is the opinion of Tengo Pantalones that pants-wearing is a caste-free issue. Everyone should enjoy wearing pants, regardless of class standing. A comment on the decorative status of ones pants is perfectly legitimate; however, I find it hard to believe the members of the Campus Club have fancy pants.

“Go to In Toto or Grethen House if you’re wanting to drop a s-load on fashion with spendy, trendy labels. If getting up and having to look is a drag, there’s eBay and Bluefly to satify your overspending habits. “

I read that as “Gretchen’s House”, and had to do a retake. I mean Gretchen is fashion friendly, spendy, and trendy.

>>> Jonny — if you’ve been hitting the Brookdale Marshall Field’s, you’ve already been forced to wear Fubu. < <<

HA HA — about the only place in Brookdale I hit with any regularity is the Barnes and Noble — you’re absolutely right, they pretty much only stock the “urban designers’ there!

Grethen House on 50th & France or G2 over near Denny Kemp in Northeast Mpls.

Nordstrom

Screw clothing, $300 and your drinking in Chicago @ lolapalooza.

Fake t vs. real experience

Lollapalooza is as manufactured as the Indonesian shirts. For $300 I’ll be on a plane to San Juan with Indie and Cristina, ready to see the sights and speak clearly and eloquently with the locals on Indie’s behalf.

Get on orbitz. I’m already packing.

The first ever MNSpeak field trip!

To San Juan? I dig. First evar!

PACK YOUR BAGS, PEOPLE!

How long are we going for? I don’t get any paid vacation time since I just started me new job.

San Juan? Why not Indonesia? I hear they have some fine fashions for cheap there!

For the same reason you don’t drive to South Dakota to fill up on cheap gas.

Mpls, I’m sure you can find a better one in San Juan. Hell, you can get a job with the government; they don’t do much of anything, so you’ll be in pretty much the same position as you are now..

Will my puppy have to go through quarantine?
Is housing affordable?
I can imagine the giant gradens you could grow down there!
And all those cool zone 8 and 9 plants that don’t even have a chance up here!

No quarantine, just the necessary rabbies vaccine.
No, housing is not affordable, but I have an apartment there that can uncomfortably accomodate many people.
The gardening potential is indeed astounding.
And the plants in general are even more astounding… you can see nature breaking through cement at every turn — and there is plenty of cement to break through, unfortunately.

Screw the flora, people! I want sun, sand, and fauna. Tony, help me out here!

And SALT, rich. Don’t forget the salt in the air.. and in the ocean. mmmmmm.

And flaking out of your hair when it dries in the breezes. My favorite.

Right up there with getting sand in the crack of your ass.

That’s a whole different beast.