up against the wall eric willson
in today’s new york times, eric willson worries that the transit strike will have a permanently deleterious effect on nyc fashion.
[thanks to our partner jennifer rose cohen for alerting us to the palaver]
wilson isn’t so much worried about the financial consequences of the strike, but about people choosing clothes pragmatically, say, because it’s cold out and they might have to walk. although he claims to be more concerned about how clothes look than retail decline, his worry that fashion consumers might not return to more modish criteria after the strike clearly combines the two concerns. (rrr leaves the math to the gentle reader.)
wilson cites the adoption of running shoes with business suits during the 1980 transit strike as an example of a permanent habiliment-hangover and “one of the worst fashion trends ever.” while we share his distaste for the white athletic shoe and business suit look, we can’t help but note that the problem lies in the suits the sneakers and the social relations they express. lame sweatshop reboks remembered from one’s seventh grade pe teacher and a suit designed to conform the boss’s sense of propriety could only be saved with a smudge of brown blush on the wearer’s nose.
rather than using valuable column inches wondering what transit workers can wear, or what raiment the so called famous “good people of new york” might invent under meteorological pressure and in the name of socialist medicine, wilson worries about how poorly dressed newly minted bicycle commuters and bridge and tunnel walkers were during those glorious 60 hours of resistance. rrr can’t help but note wilson’s implicit fantasy that the riders of the mta have ever been decked out for the runway. the photograph accompanying the article doesn’t look to us much different than what we saw last time on winter’s morning we traveled the rails of gotham.
wilson’s main issues seem to be bound to footwear. he bemoans the current replacement of stilettos by “hiking boots and last year’s uggs.” 3xr wonders if uggs were ever ok and suspects that wilson collapses various boots into the hiking category. we also resist his reflexive attachment to the heel, not in the main because of the pediatric damage it inflicts or its politics, but because such shoes have become the unquestioned clichés inhibiting any potential creativity remaining in “lux” fashion. one doesn’t even see those shoes anymore, much less think and feel them. no matter how alluring they’re just a senseless fact, like a steadycam ® shot in a hollywood action movie.
rather than regretting moments when people stop wearing clothes that further enrich beatle’s daughters, rrr believes fashion correspondents should open their eyes the invention surging forth in moments when one doesn’t know any longer what to where, particularly when those moments are driven by the needs of the proletariat.
[thanks to our partner jennifer rose cohen for alerting us to the palaver]
wilson isn’t so much worried about the financial consequences of the strike, but about people choosing clothes pragmatically, say, because it’s cold out and they might have to walk. although he claims to be more concerned about how clothes look than retail decline, his worry that fashion consumers might not return to more modish criteria after the strike clearly combines the two concerns. (rrr leaves the math to the gentle reader.)
wilson cites the adoption of running shoes with business suits during the 1980 transit strike as an example of a permanent habiliment-hangover and “one of the worst fashion trends ever.” while we share his distaste for the white athletic shoe and business suit look, we can’t help but note that the problem lies in the suits the sneakers and the social relations they express. lame sweatshop reboks remembered from one’s seventh grade pe teacher and a suit designed to conform the boss’s sense of propriety could only be saved with a smudge of brown blush on the wearer’s nose.
rather than using valuable column inches wondering what transit workers can wear, or what raiment the so called famous “good people of new york” might invent under meteorological pressure and in the name of socialist medicine, wilson worries about how poorly dressed newly minted bicycle commuters and bridge and tunnel walkers were during those glorious 60 hours of resistance. rrr can’t help but note wilson’s implicit fantasy that the riders of the mta have ever been decked out for the runway. the photograph accompanying the article doesn’t look to us much different than what we saw last time on winter’s morning we traveled the rails of gotham.
wilson’s main issues seem to be bound to footwear. he bemoans the current replacement of stilettos by “hiking boots and last year’s uggs.” 3xr wonders if uggs were ever ok and suspects that wilson collapses various boots into the hiking category. we also resist his reflexive attachment to the heel, not in the main because of the pediatric damage it inflicts or its politics, but because such shoes have become the unquestioned clichés inhibiting any potential creativity remaining in “lux” fashion. one doesn’t even see those shoes anymore, much less think and feel them. no matter how alluring they’re just a senseless fact, like a steadycam ® shot in a hollywood action movie.
rather than regretting moments when people stop wearing clothes that further enrich beatle’s daughters, rrr believes fashion correspondents should open their eyes the invention surging forth in moments when one doesn’t know any longer what to where, particularly when those moments are driven by the needs of the proletariat.
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