DEPRESSION-ERA CHIC

[katty]

A TOUCH OF CRASH
(why not just go to a thrift/goodwill re-use store?! alot cheaper than this)

more: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07282008/news/regionalnews/a_touch_of_crash_121893.htm

DEPRESSION-ERA CHIC
By REBECCA ROSENBERG
NEW DEALS: Lower East Sider Renee Finn eyes up a '30s-style hat at a Midtown Gap, while...
Posted: 4:18 am
July 28, 2008

The duds say it all - and it's depressing.

Taking a cue from the grim economy, this fall's fashions at Banana Republic, Gap and H&M are featuring a distinctly Depression-era trend of cloche hats, pencil skirts, conductor caps and baggy, vintage-style dresses.

One of the most popular styles appears to hark back to the impish, newsboy getup of the 1930s: baggy trousers, caps, pinstriped vests, oxford lace-up shoes and utilitarian handbags.

"We associate the newsboy look with urban poverty - street kids of the 1930s," said Daniel James Cole,

[Cleita]

1. So are the making clothes from flour sacks

like the poor actually did back then?

[Blue_Tires]

5. don't forget the piece of rope for a belt!

[Sanctified]

2. Nothing says poverty like BUYING new clothing that screams poverty.

The consumption culture we live in is quite disgusting, I can buy a whole wardrobe worth of clothing from Goodwill for the price of one of those Depression replica hats.

[Warpy]

4. Or just buying new clothing that screams poverty

like the fare at big box stores that pills and bags and looks like hell after the first couple of washings.

[Sanctified]

8. I was looking in a Lucky Brand store and they were trying to sell a T-Shirt for $120.

First the T-shirt looked in worse shape than something you could pickup used at a thrift store and second their reasoning for the price was it was made in the USA. Now I am all for supporting US companies but I highly doubt the price of production for 1 tee-shirt is over $100 in American labor.

[katty]

9. indeed! choking on the HIP-pocrisy!

[Captain Angry]

3. The economy must really suck if people are going to go buy new clothes to fit the fashion.

Anybody spending money to buy new clothes to fit the fashion has no economic worries. (or is insane)

[trof]

6. Conductor caps? I'll have to google that.

[trof]

7. Aw hell, these aren't CONDUCTOR caps. They're ENGINEER'S caps.

The conductors wore stiff, round, flattopped caps with a shiny patent leather bill.
I was there.
I know.
;-)