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Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Ghettofashionless

Ahh...the beloved tee-shirt dress. A summertime mystery to the central Baltimore population. And by central Baltimore, I mean me and my friends...we don't stray too far east or west.

From the citypaper:

“The culture of the customer is so everyone will look the same,” says Stuart Silberman, vice president of marketing at Changes, a nine-store chain of urban menswear stores based in Baltimore that has been stocking tall tees since 2002. “If the cops are looking for a suspect, [he’s invariably wearing a] long white T-shirt with long shorts. So they can’t be identified. That was the real reason it all started.”

Read the rest of the article here-
http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=10381

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