Harold M. Clemens discusses fashion role reversals:

... It's weird walking by white boys in unlaced tims, baggy jeans, fat hoodies, and oversized fitteds when I have on dress shoes, soft slacks, and silk dress shirts. I always glance at them curiously as I stroll by and they usually return the favor. It seems like they want to be just like us and we want to be just like them. Maybe it's a good thing- a sign of an impending thorough integration. The only wrench is they dress like us when it's cool, while we dress like them when it counts. ...

The Globe thinks so - it's starting a monthly fashion mag:

"Fashion Boston will be filled with ideas and observations about what the city's wearing right now, plus incredible photos that treat fashion as sophisticated-but-fun self expression," Hall said in a statement.

Leggings, anyone?

Men's leggings were unveiled in Milan during fashion week. Blame some designer named Marni!

Stephen Baldwin is having trouble restraining himself:

Ever since the new Barbour store opened on Newbury Street there have been scores of people ambling around Boston dressed in fishing tackle. Whenever I spy one of these dowdy waxen olive jackets on the city streets I always feel like adopting some bizarre, gnomic, ye olde Scottish accent and accosting the owner as they clamber into their double-parked Land Rover: "Big auld Trouty dwells in a pool up yonder, see, near the Crate and Barrel shop." I'd tell them. "He likes it played long does auld Trouty, he's a canny fish, aye, so tempt him with thy finest Purple Hubcab on a number twelve and give him plenty o' line. Good luck to ye." ...

Dave Alpert saw three soul patches last week:

... It's guy number three that I'm really worried about. He looked more like an accountant, and he wore the biggest, puffiest soul patch of them all. ...

Single Girl in the City: Purple Sweatpants tucked into black knee high stiletto boots (in public).

Jaynie warns:

... If you wear glaring hot pink lipstick at the gym, you should be shot dead. In front of all of the other gym-goers. With your body left as blatant evidence of what went wrong. ...

Yes, Yup finds something even worse: leggings paired with a top that makes the wearer look like she just drank a gallon of milk or is three months pregnant, or both.

Boston Police report a man walking near the Christian Science Center yesterday evening was stabbed during a fight over his clothing:

... The victim stated he was walking down Hemenway Street from Boylston Street, when three unknown white males approached him and proceeded to make negative comments regarding his choice of clothing. The suspect confronted the victim and a fight ensued. ...

The victim is in stable condition at Brigham and Women's with multiple stab wounds.

Click on the link for information about a shooting on Lansdowne Street around 2:30 this morning and a case involving a Brighton woman who came back from a trip to California to discover a woman sleeping in her bed. When police arrived, the suspect claimed she owned the property.

A warm November night plus hot young things in next to nothing (or worse, leggings) plus randy young studs equals trouble in River City or, at least, outside the bars around Quincy Market, La Diabla reports:

... Girls with LEGGINGS. Fucking leggings!!!! It was driving me crazy.

Apparently, it was driving the sweaty, drunken male population crazy, too.

I was outside, smokin', and a short time after five girls walked into a bar (with a full 60% of them in LEGGINGS), about 20 or so halfwits decided it was time to spill out into the street and have an all-out brawl. Y'know, there ain't nothin' like a bunch of A & F K-Fed wannabees trying to be all street, then whining about how their jeans are all fucked up. ...