Know this: This is the only time we will ever mention Marshall’s in this space, and it’s as a public service. If you see this thing (pictured) rolling around town this week, do not be afraid and simply snicker: It’s the Marshall’s Roving Stiletto. You’re forgiven if you thought it was the Center City Shoe Raper’s ride.Sarah Schalliol is an industrial designer who specializes in making colorful cacti, birds and bracelets out of painted plywood. This burnt orange sappling is tall enough for hanging even your longest necklaces.In other news, Philadelphia jewelry guru Rae Vitorelli and painter Lisa Hurwitz currently have new stuff on the shelves at Conspiracy Showroom. Featured in Vitorelli’s new pieces are fine gold chain links, homemade porcelain feather earrings, and a porcelain owl pendent created from a vintage mold. After a First Friday opening just past, the installation will remain on display through early October.And can we talk about mixed emotions for a minute? The banning of baggy pants is at the very least sociological profiling, if not full-blown racial profiling as well, and let’s not even kid ourselves: It’s definitely that, too. But real talk: Baggy pants are fucking ugly, stupid and are the very lowest point of all time in American menswear. So it’ll be good to see them off the streets, if this actually happens. But where’s the rehabilitation aspect of this fashion crime? Theoretically, one should only stop wearing baggy pants when one knows better, no? Also, most cops can’t shame a man into rethinking a fashion decision. This is a privelege reserved for the gay man.Got a fashion/retail tip for Phashionista? Let us know: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.
This entry was posted
on Monday, September 17th, 2007 at 12:27 pm.
September 17th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
One should wear baggy pants, regardless of his race, if he has a large penis, a large scrotum, or both. Blood flow is important.
September 17th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Anyone who has suffered either testicular torsion or epididymitis knows that contrary to the hanging free philosophy, sturdy support of the equipment is vital to the longer term survival and health of the equipment, particularly those strapped with a larger load. I’m not saying everyone should adopt tighty whities and speedos, but perhaps a return to the codpiece. Seriously, ask your doctor. Medicine ain’t repression unless you’re f’d up and like being that way.
September 17th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
Still don’t see how this is racial profiling, since all Of course the tactic of banning any clothes is stupid, because 1) this is still a free republic, and I should be able to wax my moustache and wear my plaid suit with a purple lining whenever I damn well please; 2) those Mens Wearhouse casualties who make such rules all look like their wives dress them; 3) resistance from authority just prolongs the more idiotic youth trends that otherwise might fade away (American Apparel should answer for their awful hipster Garanimals); and 4) adults should be expected to know better, and should be made to feel the chill of scorn when they don’t.
Want to see clown pants go away? Mock them mercilessly.
September 17th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
(clipped off in the last entry)
Some of the best dressers in the city are gentlemen of color, so the assumption that black men, if left to their on devices, will dress in clown pants and shirt-tents seems a bit demeaning. If anything, white kids are the most numerous offenders, with their suburban ghetto mummery.