Sox jerseys too declasse for GQ
By adamg - 7/15/11 - 1:55 pm
Declares us the worst dressed city in America:
Boston is like America's Bad-Taste Storm Sewer: all the worst fashion ideas from across the country flow there, stagnate, and putrefy.
Probably written by some frustrated Yankees fans.
Ed. vitally important update: The link originally led to a page showing two women in Sox jerseys - Youkilis and Pedroia, to be exact - but looks like GQ changed the photo to a bunch of drunken bros after somebody pointed out the photo was actually taken at Camden Yards, which is a bit south of Boston.
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Beantown?
Only yahoos from the hinterland call it Beantown.
So much for any claim to credibility for these jamokes.
Lol
And people in the inner city. They like to call it "the bean."
Camden Yards
Pretty sure that's a photo of Baltimore they have there.
It was
Looks like they changed it now.
GQ
can kiss my GQ.
Who Cares what some Fop thinks?
If there is anything worse than being a living, breathing rendition of a kinks song, it is insisting that anyone who doesn't so obsess lacks character, and a city with horrific weather where people dress appropriately is somehow a bad scene.
They should go play dress up with their paper dolls, or write about important things.
I guess GQ finds it more
I guess GQ finds it more appropriate to have sitcom stars in fetish photos
http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/07/15/gillian-jacobs-and-alison-brie-get-kinky-in-gq-photoshoot/
I am so concerned about GQ
What is GQ anyway? Is that like a heterosexual version of Men's Health or the male counterpart to Marie Claire and Cosmo? I get my fashion advice from Bar Stool Sports.
The phrase that fits
People throw around the phrase "I couldn't care less" (well, usually they throw around the wrong versions of that, but that's for another time). But I literally could not care one bit less about what the "fashion" "industry" thinks of us. Seriously. If "Paper Clip Weekly" magazine published a news bulletin that Boston was using a different gauge of paper clip than the rest of the United States, that would actually be more interesting to me than what we wear compared to the good people of [What's the best dressed city? Don't look it up! I don't care!]
And yes, I just typed a long paragraph about how little I care. Welcome to the Internet.
If "Paper Clip Weekly"
Could happen, if the right bribes were made, handing paper clip operations over to Big Dig contractors, who would quietly switch to substandard parts.
GQ busts on basically everyone
The article includes pretty much every major American city, and the men's fashion magazine does have a point. Almost all American men dress like unrepentant, unmitigated slobs regardless of where they are or what they are doing.
You can believe that is a good thing or a bad thing, but that point is kind of tough to argue. You don't have to be particularly well-traveled to note other cultures where men pay more attention to what they're wearing and have a better-honed sense of occasion.
Meaningless.
Meaningless.
I've noticed
I've also noticed that these "men dress well" cultures have vastly more moderate weather to contend with.
Been to Scandinavia?
Been to Scandinavia lately? Well dressed men EVERYWHERE. See also: Toronto, Montreal.
It's not warm year-round in Northern Italy
Or in Argentina. They get cold weather and snow, and dudes still manage not to live in fleece and sweatpants.
I think the better question is
Who would want to live in a city where everyone tried to impress GQ all the time?
The GQ article is all about the pageviews
When you dump on everyone in the country equally and require 40 pageviews to work through it, I think you're firmly in the realm of ad-driven, snotty satire.
On another note, Italian and Spanish and Argentine men dress well, and it's not fashion magazines they're trying to impress. American men used to, but haven't bothered in about 50 years. Not judgin', just sayin'.
We do have a lot of slobs here
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Classy
Those guys may or may not represent Boston (a commenter claims the photo was taken in Baltimore), but I'll bet than none of them writes about "cameltoes" for a fashion magazine, so they have that going for them.
Not that photo
They originally illustrated the slide with a photo of two women in Sox jerseys (one Youkilis, the other Pedroia). Looks like they changed it because it didn't actually show Boston.
Fixed
Their original photo was of two female Red Sox fans in Baltimore's Camden Yards. Even if the editors were fooled by the large Sox contingent there, the orange and black banners should have clued them in.
They've since replaced it with the shot of the high-fiving white guys, which may or may not be in Boston.
Not sure why GQ (Gentlemen's Quarterly?) is complaining about visible cameltoes on co-eds, but whatever.
The Bristol, CT takedown was pretty funny
It was basically an excuse to dump on every ESPN sportscaster in existence, whom I think we can charitably describe as less-than-snappy dressers.
I like how the article basically leaves no American city unscathed: in essence, the entire country is full of guys who dress badly, and even the ones with money have no taste. Who would argue otherwise?
We care about brains, books, and biomed
Here we go again with the fashion. Who cares?!
We care about brains, books, and biomedical research in this city, not superficial crap like wearing the latest trends off the runway in Milan.
Actually Boston residents are
Actually Boston residents are very well dressed. It's the tools from the burbs that come into the city dressed like they are in 8th grade.