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HIP-HOP FLOPS
New York Post ^ | 12/14/04 | SUZANNE KAPNER

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."


(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fashion; hiphop; retail; urban
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To: MikeinIraq
"501s are too damn tight... I like my 569s......"

I'm not suprised that you wear Levis. Why don't you just send your money directly to the Brady Center?

41 posted on 12/14/2004 2:53:22 AM PST by Godebert
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To: sinanju

Is this for real?


42 posted on 12/14/2004 2:55:09 AM PST by andrew2527
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To: Godebert

yeah well the hot dog vendor business (I still dont have a clue what that is so please enlighten me) isnt all that hot in Baghdad right now....


and besides that, Levi's are the only jean that actually fit right with me....go boycott something else from your cave...


43 posted on 12/14/2004 2:55:16 AM PST by MikefromOhio (27 days until I can leave Iraq for good....)
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To: Godebert

so tell me then, am I supposed to go naked because Levi's donates to Anti-gun organizations? What should I do O Enlightened One? /sarcasm


44 posted on 12/14/2004 3:02:21 AM PST by MikefromOhio (27 days until I can leave Iraq for good....)
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To: MikeinIraq
Osama Bin Laden:

Allahu Akbar! Turn away from Western decadence! Reject the temple of Baal! Excuse me for a second.

(Resets Timex watch. Steps into new, American-made camo fatigues.)

45 posted on 12/14/2004 3:02:34 AM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham (Why did it take me so long to come up with a new tag-line, huh?! What's up with that?)
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To: kattracks

Looking dumb and stupid in baggy clothes won't get you a job.......


46 posted on 12/14/2004 3:03:46 AM PST by Route101
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham

I think you mean "CB40" or something like that. UB-40 was a rock band in the late 80s, IIRC.


47 posted on 12/14/2004 3:04:27 AM PST by MitchellC
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To: MitchellC
Yup, it has been corrected.

Thank you!

48 posted on 12/14/2004 3:05:22 AM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham (Why did it take me so long to come up with a new tag-line, huh?! What's up with that?)
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To: MikeinIraq
"so tell me then, am I supposed to go naked because Levi's donates to Anti-gun organizations? What should I do O Enlightened One? /sarcasm"

No....you're supposed to wear Levis....just like a good gun-grabbing un-American leftist. If you wore Wranglers somebody might mistake you for a Conservative.

49 posted on 12/14/2004 3:07:50 AM PST by Godebert
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham

LOL

some people on here would boycott the toilet if it were made by a leftist organization and go outside and dig a hole....


50 posted on 12/14/2004 3:08:49 AM PST by MikefromOhio (27 days until I can leave Iraq for good....)
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To: Godebert

so tell me, what is a hot dog vendor since that is apparently my employment that allows me to buy the levis?


51 posted on 12/14/2004 3:09:22 AM PST by MikefromOhio (27 days until I can leave Iraq for good....)
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To: Godebert

Well I have worn Birkenstocks for 25yrs. comfort, safety and only shoe that fits my ladies size 5 www.

In my line off work low back and foot pain as little as possible is a must.

With any retailer/brand you can find something if you look deep enough.

I remember the Catholic Church investing in a Publishing Co untill someone brought it to there attn. that on rag the company published was hard core porn.


52 posted on 12/14/2004 3:09:36 AM PST by oceanperch (Tagline on Christmas Vacation National Lampoon Style!)
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To: ovrtaxt

Exactly, but more with a Jeff Foxworthy drawl.


53 posted on 12/14/2004 3:11:27 AM PST by oceanperch (Tagline on Christmas Vacation National Lampoon Style!)
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To: MikeinIraq
Re: HIP-HOP FLOPS
From MikeinIraq | 12/14/2004 5:56:10 AM EST new

"wow you hate Levis huh? I will have to go buy them up now....just because you recommended against them....."

Don't send me e-mail. Anything you have to say to me say it publicly.

54 posted on 12/14/2004 3:11:33 AM PST by Godebert
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To: MikeinIraq

Boy I bet you are a verrrrry anxious man just about now.

Home Sweet Home

Welcome Back early!


55 posted on 12/14/2004 3:13:01 AM PST by oceanperch (Tagline on Christmas Vacation National Lampoon Style!)
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To: MikeinIraq; boycott; Veto!; Conspiracy Guy; Darksheare; King Prout
I've been boycotting the toilet since 'aught-two.

Ever since I discovered that the "2,000 Flushes" guy was cutting checks to Tom Daschle.

56 posted on 12/14/2004 3:13:11 AM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham (Why did it take me so long to come up with a new tag-line, huh?! What's up with that?)
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To: oceanperch
and only shoe that fits my ladies size 5 www.

Hobbit feet! Cool.

57 posted on 12/14/2004 3:15:05 AM PST by ovrtaxt (Political correctness is the handmaiden of terrorism.)
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To: Godebert

Gotta have a good cowboy butt to wear wranglers.


58 posted on 12/14/2004 3:15:28 AM PST by oceanperch (Tagline on Christmas Vacation National Lampoon Style!)
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To: oceanperch

Larry the Cable Guy has a bit about ladies underbritches with a hole in 'em.

About $30 at Victorias Secret. He says he's got a whole drawer of 'em at home, fugures he's sittin on about $300 dollars worth!


59 posted on 12/14/2004 3:17:49 AM PST by ovrtaxt (Political correctness is the handmaiden of terrorism.)
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To: ovrtaxt; oceanperch
Size 11-sneaker/shoe.

Size 10-boot.

60 posted on 12/14/2004 3:18:29 AM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham (Why did it take me so long to come up with a new tag-line, huh?! What's up with that?)
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