Coffee
and a Caftan
Cafe owners are getting smarter, some take their specialty store (coffee) and hybridize it to bring in other markets (apparel, crosswords).
Take for example a coffee shop in Indiranagar, India: “…combines food with another pleasure that people, especially women, cannot resist — shopping.
With a line of ethnic apparel ranging from clothes to bags to scented candles, this place also has magazines and comics.”
Seems the shove to get someone to come in for a cup of coffee is a very little one.
Seems some people push us all back as we try to go forward.
A fraternity in California had a ghetto party, and is surprised that there is a backlash.
A college an epicenter of sensitivity? Wow, what a revelation.
Guess the Pi Kappa Alphas never heard of Kappa Alpha’s “Old South”, where women wear antebellum hoop skirts and men wear confederate uniforms.
I can’t make this stuff up!
Oooh, Scaaaary
From the beyond stoopid category, federal judge James T. Giles recommended banning hoodies from South Philadelphia High School in response to the racial violence that occurred there in December between Asian and African American students.
He then issued a 31 page report (See, told you I can’t make stuff like this up) where he justifies himself with the mindbending insight that the wearer’s face is obscured.
Brilliant!
Here’s a personal insight: I like American style boxing.
I like it alot.
The last thing I want to wear when fists fly is something that obscures my vision.
This is called “a bad idea”.
I wear hoodies to the gym, but they darn sure come off quick.
See Judge, it works two ways, if I can’t see,
I can’t commit acts of violence without getting hurt myself. Speaking of hoodies, this is all an interesting turnabout.
The hoodie is an inexpensive form of athletic apparel, everybody at my gym wears them and they are $9 at Walmart.
A hoodie isn’t ethnic in the least per-se, but over the years certain groups have donned it with pride.
The Aloha shirt and the dashiki have both been protested over by their originators (with good reason) as their community expression becomes a widespread consumer product. Here is an example of the reverse.
