fashion

Ameadowlark clues us in:

... If you see a dude wearing girl jeans anywhere near Boston, ask him if he's from Allston. Nine times out of ten, he'll do a double take and say "yeah, how'd you know?" The other time out of ten, he'll say "Brighton."

Via Allston City Limits.

Alicia reports:

Yikes. I've seen 2 men willingly walking around Boston in Nantucket Red pants today. ... Thankfully neither pair of pants had little lobsters, hunting dogs or anchors embroidered all over them.

Somebody's buying the stuff.

Lori Magno reports that, as a kind, caring Bostonian, she would have tucked in this woman's tag yesterday - if only the woman weren't smoking, creating a wall of stink that overrode Magno's Samaritan instincts.

Krissy reports somebody at South Station yesterday was selling T-shirts reading:

GIANTS SUCK, TOO!

Yeah, sure, hubby and all, but the Missus is referring to the bag she was spotted wearing after last night's game.

1. I don't have to worry about ever seeing any of my neighbors in the $550 rubber pants the Olsen twins are selling at Louis, Boston (which I learned about from a photo that accompanied the dead-tree version of Hayley Kaufman's 100% gua

The Missus scolds the slob of a man who races past her carrying a fancy purse (and snaps his photo so everybody can join in on the tsk-tsking):

Some Assembly Required doesn't care how hot it gets: Middle-aged men should just never wear tank tops:

We go now to fashion reporter Alyssa Boehm, who reminds us that while it is, indeed, legal to wear white during the summer, one should never wear blue polka-dot underwear with white pants