Fashion Trends
The fact that I have to write a column about this is sad, but last Tuesday I counted at least nine guys wearing a T-shirt with Abercrombie printed across their pecs and I wasn’t trying to look very hard. Wearing T-shirts, sweaters and hats with brand names on them is beyond lame.
Why wouldn’t you wear a shirt with your name on it? Oh yeah — because that would make you creepy, so why is wearing an even more common name like Abercrombie not considered peculiar? It’s probably because it aims at our childhood and how we were brainwashed to think that because the cool kids were wearing it, we had to.
Those graphic-tee days are long gone, and now the cool rich kids are wearing Juicy and Lacoste (although still lame), and those sporting shirts with brand names on the front are giving off the signal that they have no idea who they are and cannot get over their childhood.
For guys, here’s what normal people are thinking when you walk into class or a party wearing a graphic brand name shirt: you’re a douche, you have overly-gelled hair, you are wearing khaki cargo shorts and you fake-tan too much. College girls still wearing A&F hoodies with frayed short jean skirts are textbook cases of insecurity. I don’t even want to say what people are thinking of them — it will make them more emotional.