Here's a pretty good marketing scheme: Sell classic university-logo sweatshirts that have been naturally weathered, so they look all old-fashioned n' stuff.
You laugh, but I remember reading about a fad where rich city folk were buying up "real cowboy" jeans for hundreds of dollars, complete with explanations of the origin of whatever rips, holes, and stains it came with.
I&#039;m sorry to say that people were selling NYFD &quot;distressed&quot; t-shirts very like that in New York in the first years after 9/11. Still, it didn&#039;t really offend me any more than the entrepreneurs who are still selling overpriced flag-everything crap to the tourists who populate the World Trade Center site. Not to mention the shop at the new &quot;museum&quot; there: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.c..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp...">http://www.washingtonpost.c...
But the whole site is basically a tasteful version of Times Square. Coming soon to a Disney World near you: NineElevenland!
Never let it be said that Americans lack the capacity to be fatuous <i>and</i> bathetic at the same time.
At the prices they charge, Urban Outfitters could put an individual serial number on all the black-and-white striped tops. The left wrist might be a good place.
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You laugh, but I remember reading about a fad where rich city folk were buying up &quot;real cowboy&quot; jeans for hundreds of dollars, complete with explanations of the origin of whatever rips, holes, and stains it came with.
I&#039;m sorry to say that people were selling NYFD &quot;distressed&quot; t-shirts very like that in New York in the first years after 9/11. Still, it didn&#039;t really offend me any more than the entrepreneurs who are still selling overpriced flag-everything crap to the tourists who populate the World Trade Center site. Not to mention the shop at the new &quot;museum&quot; there: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.c..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp...">http://www.washingtonpost.c...
But the whole site is basically a tasteful version of Times Square. Coming soon to a Disney World near you: NineElevenland!
Never let it be said that Americans lack the capacity to be fatuous <i>and</i> bathetic at the same time.
Twice they express regret at how this piece of shit was &quot;perceived.&quot; That&#039;s not even close to an apology.
I waiting for the T-shirts with the scratch-n-sniff patches for tear gas. That&#039;s true nostalgia.
At the prices they charge, Urban Outfitters could put an individual serial number on all the black-and-white striped tops. The left wrist might be a good place.
$129.00?? Now <i>that</i> is tasteless.
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As &quot;art&quot;, or a &quot;statement&quot;, it might work. As overpriced yuppie fashion, not so much.