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SO WHAT ARE THOSE WOOL SOCKS TELLING YOU?

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Submitted by solson on March 12, 2009 - 10:29am

SO WHAT ARE THOSE WOOL SOCKS TELLING YOU?

The new story in fashion and design is that everything has to tell a story. That "heritage wear" jacket has to reference your grandpa's lumberjack shirt. (He probably never was a lumberjack, he wore it to drink beer at the cottage.)

That was the idea that menswear designer Joseph Abboud was reflecting when he described his new clothing collection, Black & Brown, as "working class luxury." Because we are all working class now, get it? The line features scrumptious wools, corduroys and cashmere scarves and it was being modelled by young guys in fingerless gloves and newsboy caps. Very Dickensian chic.

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