Archive for July, 2009
Man’s Lost Jacket Causes Wardrobe Calamity
OAKLAND, CA — An Oakland man was unable to leave his house today after all attempts at assembling an acceptable ensemble failed. An email to his employer confirmed that Jim McSilver would not be coming to work for the rest of the week, as he no longer had a jacket to match to his shirt, shoes and pants. The missing jacket, which sources have described as black, cotton, relatively inexpensive and “a wardrobe staple,” was last seen in the vicinity of Piedmont Avenue. Neither police nor the jacket’s owner have any clues to its whereabouts. In a statement made through his lawyer, McSilver declared, ”Without this critical keystone of my wardrobe, my only alternative is to be naked.”
Lance Armstrong Flattens Black Sock’s Fashion Stigma
Since the advent of gym class, black socks have been a ‘scarlet letter’ for geeks everywhere. Black socks worn with shorts are a blaring beacon for pale, scrawny legs. No ‘true athlete’ would dare approach a court, field or track in anything but white hosiery.
It took a man’s man to finally make black socks cool. And not any jock could achieve this feat. Such a challenge requires one of the world’s strongest and most successful. After winning the Tour de France an unprecedented seven times, Lance Armstrong could make his ’09 comeback wearing a muumuu and scarf and still scare the shorts off his competitors. Much has been written in cycling blogs about this break in bicycle tradition, but it’s implications for the mainstream fashion world are immense. And sporting black socks in the French countryside is not simply a Beaujolais and massage induced faux-pas. He also wore black in the 2009 Tour of California and Giro d’Italia. Fashion world take note!
Two months after the Tour of California wound through Southern California, blogger Jeff Ircink reported that LA has already begun to embrace the new trend.
Update July 15th: Robin Williams ribs Lance for his black socks in this Livestrong video. In addition, Jeff Bean reports that Lance first sported black way back in 2004! Apparently it takes a major comeback to start a fashion revolution.
