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Don Ed Hardy appearance and other events dress-up Fashion Month at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

It’s Boston Fashion Week and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is extending the celebration throughout October with two relevant exhibits, a party on the first of the month, an appearance by Don Ed Hardy on October 6, and a robust list of fashion-related events.

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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.

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.

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. ...

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.

The history of fashion in Boston

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

A street-fashion blog

Hot new fashion statement

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

GIANTS SUCK, TOO!