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You can always tell an Allston guy

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.

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Dreaded red

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.

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But are they topped with Yankees caps?

Be reports on a new fashion trend in her neighborhood: Brooklyn T-shirts:

... I don't know, but this sort of strikes me indistinguishable from hanging around Harvard Yard wearing a Barnard* t-shirt.

*or Columbia or Yale, etc. ...

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Fashion faux pas goes uncorrected in downtown Boston

Tsk, tsk

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.

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The history of fashion in Boston

AR provides the timeline (but misses the contributions of Rozzie's own Joseph Abboud).

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A street-fashion blog

Martini flits around town taking photos of people in interesting attire.

Hot new fashion statement

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

GIANTS SUCK, TOO!

Fashion 911

The news that the long arm of the law grabbed some ass the other night on Commercial Street (scroll down a bit when you click) has Amy Derjue wondering if Boston Police will now enforce fashion laws against too short tunics on Lansdowne Street and at the Alley:

We've noticed that a lot of college women don't quite understand recent fashion trends. The racks at H&M are filled with tunic-length garments that are meant to be worn with tights or leggings, but some young women are wearing them bare legged. ...

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