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Michelle’s Fabulous Designer Diamonds: Taxpayer Paid?
Michelle’s Fabulous Designer Diamonds: Taxpayer Paid?
Michelle’s Fabulous Designer Diamonds: Taxpayer Paid?:
Michelle Obama dazzles in New York, wearing diamond bangles by H-Town’s Katie Decker
That was no ordinary bling on the wrist of First Lady Michelle Obama at the DNC fundraiser in New York Tuesday night. Those fancy diamond cuffs were the creation of 23-year-old Katie Decker, whose namesake jewelry line has been making a serious splash since her graduation from Texas A&M two years ago.
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Sag Harbor Baggy Pants Fad Reaches All Time Low, As Does Our Nation
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y Christopher Orlet on 8.26.10 @ 6:07AM
The sign on the door of John English’s store reads “No shoes, No shirt, No service. And pull up your pants!”
Waiting in the checkout line, I ask the proprietor if he is still having trouble with shirtless and shoeless customers with sagging trousers.
“It’s worse,” John moans, shaking his head despondently. “I don’t know what the world’s coming to.”John has run this little corner grocery for 35 years. He’s seen nonconformist fashion trends come and go: ultra-miniskirts, hoodies, backward baseball caps.
Who can forget that brief period a few years ago when girls wore those incredibly low-cut jeans with the highly visible thongs?”I didn’t think it could get worse than the saggy pants,” John says. “Boy was I naive.”I remember the sagging pants. They were all the rage in the 1990s. At first the trousers sagged only somewhat, barely enough to identify the color and make of the boxers.
As the years advanced, however, trousers continued their downward progression.In those days, there was much debate about the significance of “jailin’,” as the trend was called. Berkeley grad school students even wrote dissertations on the phenomenon. One popular theory had the fad originating with prisoners’ ill-fitting clothing. Ex-cons brought this fashion statement to the ghetto where it was popularized. Wearing droopy drawers became a symbol of solidarity with convicts past and present.
Today we can look back on the era of the sagging trousers as a relatively enlightened period. Some of the younger male mostly customers coming into John English’s store now wear long tight-fitting gym shorts that they position well below their buttocks.Excerpt Read more at spectator.org …











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