Posted on 12/14/2004 1:34:45 AM PST by kattracks
A shakeout is afoot in the world of urban apparel, as sales of once red-hot labels begin to cool, analysts and industry executives said.The across-the-board slowdown is alarming some of the major department-store retailers that had allocated a growing amount of space to these brands on the belief that the double-digit sales growth of recent years would continue, sources said.
Federated Department Stores, which operates the Macy's and Bloomingdale's chains, for instance, is seeing recent sales of urban brands decline in the double digits, compared with year-ago levels, said one person, who added: "It has everyone worried."
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Meanwhile, demand for the oversized jerseys and baggy jeans that these lines were known for dwindled, as classic looks regained popularity.
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"What we had at retail," admits Ullmann, Phat Fashion's president, "was too urban."
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It appears that in my flu-induced haze, I accidentally conflated an hilarious send-up of Hip-hop culture with an insipid, pseudo-band that will plague discerning music consumers ad infinitum.
I kind of liked "Ding Dong Bell" by the Ethiopians.
Ahh, the classics of winter time!
Instead of the decoder, just get the movie "Pootie Tang".
Make sure to catch Pootie's new hit single " !!!"
(gesturing with hands open, up next to face, with open, soundless mouth.)
that was CB-4... or Cell Block 4, where the fake gansta rappers said they met...
my favorite line was the when his little sister was reading a report...the grandma says "shut up girl, you think you sooo smart, just because you can read"
***as classic looks regained popularity***
I was hoping that penny loafers and khakis would be back when my kids hit their teen years.
Looks like it's right on time.
I look at the clothes in my 25yr old sons Maxim and men's clothes catalogs and we laugh at that style, looks so gay (fruity).
You can by worn out red jeans for only 55 bucks.
And the cords with the embroidered roosters all over them.
Then the wrinkled shirt under the vintage sweater covered by the worn looking plaid jacket.
Garnet Hill also is another one shrunken worn clothing that a poor farm girl in another country is shown wearing in the ad.
Looks like hippie lefty style gone poor farm organic girl. For very hefty prices.
I saw a vintage t shirt for 40 bucks and I could of sworn it's skiing graphic was an old worn out shirt my son owned when he was 12(now 25).
I was like look Hon, the shirt you wore all the time pre teen that I tossed in the garbedge has made it's way onto the trendy vintage over priced catalog.
I started saving his clothes a few years ago to have a quilt made if he passes on before me. Now I am thinking of resale value the hell with sentiment.
And all his clothes are in perfect condition, no foods stains, due to being g tube fed and sitting in his wheechair. The wash is the only wear they have.
They do have cool sheets for the bed in guy styles though.
Jeans and T's with local area logo's such as colledge football teams and tourist sites in our area or state always in fashion.
And living in fisherman/hunter coastal country and owning three Yellow Labs he is going to love the Columbia Sportswear shirt with hunting bird dogs (Labs) all over it is going to be a hit for Christmas.
There you go!
Also a cowboy (young, I only look) in his wranglers will always be hot.
My son is jeans and t shirts with boots for everyday wear.
That was a 90s gloss on the Doug E. Doug classic, Hanging with the Homeboys.
LOL
Some how just looks sillier on white boyz.
The Salvation Army actually has some nice threads, if-like me-you're a bargain hunter.
Unfortunately, they are located in Williamsburg, which is one of the few places in Brooklyn which I try studiously to avoid at all costs.
At least, if I want to avoid being arrested for "Spontaneous homicide of mind-numbed, socialist drones."
I think that's a felony in New York state.
I look at the clothes in my 25yr old sons Maxim and men's clothes catalogs and we laugh at that style, looks so gay (fruity)
Yup. That seems to be the choice for the fashion-conscious under thirtys. The "wigger" look or the "metrosexual" look.
Oh, please. haha!!
Well no problem in our lil rural, and I mean rural, coastal community with crime infested areas.
Problem is you by something from Salvation Army and good chance one of your friends is going to reconize it as one of their donations.
Good point!
Yo, cuz, is those my draws you got on?
501's? You mean you wear Levis Jeans? If you are actually a Conservative you wouldn't EVER wear Levis Jeans. Levis Strauss Co. is a major donor to anti-gun and other leftist/liberal orginizations.
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