Labor Chic
What’s plaid, involves knit caps in the summer, requires black workboots and carhart pants?
It’s not grunge, or so they say. It’s “Labor Chic.”
While the ensemble does not include outgrown hair, an “I don’t care” beard, and we cannot assess aroma/B.O. from a photo, they are not fooling me at all. This looks suspiciously like someone has run out of ideas and is already recycling the look of my college days and trying to repackage it back to me. The difference, they claim, is that army surplus is out and surplus from the local railroad workers union is in. Details magazine claims that we are going to like Schlitz.
My questions is: it is one thing to “mix in” elements of work clothing, or don your Pendelton 49′er, but if you walk into a club in “The Loop”, won’t someone think the owners called for a metro dallas slab leak repair company when you waltz in? All the while, the actual skilled trademen would be sitting back in their “going out” clothes and wonder what they heck you are doing?
If you are looking for a skilled tradeperson or repair company, you can go to clicksmart, where there is a directory or reputable companies. If you just look around, now that the fashion is moving towards work clothes again, you may sorely disappointed to ask an investment banker or a college kid who is passing by on the assumption that their clothes indicate that they know what you are doing, and your foundation repairs will be in capable hands.
If you are truly looking to just copy the fashion style of a more capable person yourself, the latest fashion magazines will have the latest on what you need to look like someone who works a little bit harder than you for a living.
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