August 13, 2009
Brooklynites are floppy slobs too
It’s not just in the UK, turns out the NYT also says it’s cool to have a gut:
THIS summer the unvarying male uniform in the precincts of Brooklyn cool has been a pair of shorts cut at knickers length, a V-neck Hanes T-shirt, a pair of generic slip-on sneakers and a straw fedora. Add a leather cuff bracelet if the coolster is gay.
In truth this get-up was pretty much the unvarying male uniform last summer also, but this year an unexpected element has been added to the look, and that is a burgeoning potbelly one might term the Ralph Kramden.
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Nicely played, sir.
Knee-length shorts: check.
V-neck T-shirt: NO. (Crew-neck T-shirt, if leaving the house.)
Slip-ons: NO.
Fedora: NO.
I’m not cool.
Why no V-neck? Why-for?
Coop. You’re the coolest.
You don’t need none of that shit to be cool. I have some of that shit and I grow no cooler with them. My temperature remains the same, I think.
Rick is right. I’m just messin’. Coop is cool.
Shiela!
I have some v-necks, believe me I’m definitely no cooler in a v-neck.
I mostly just don’t like V-necks. I’m talking about on guys. Or maybe I should just say on this guy. Maybe they remind me too much of those pullover acrylic sweaters I’ve pretty much always hated.
But V-neck or no, I’m not cool, and I’m cool with that.
I feel that, Coop. I definitely feel that.
If the NYTs covers a men’s street look, it’s already wanky, and over, not cool. Not stressing dressing cool is generally always cool (unless you’re not stressing it in a stressful way.) Also, Ralph was way bigger than these posers. Bang, zoom.
My summer ride:
Plain grey or Fleshtones crewneck t
plaid shorts from jc penny
Jack Purcells
The Ed Norton
“Leading with a belly is a male privilege of long standing, of course, a symbol of prosperity in most cultures and of freedom from anxieties about body image that have plagued women since Eve.”
Maybe Adam’s fig leaf covered up some anxiety? Hehehe.