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Two items discussed. Read the below after the GQ story. These thoughts complement and live off the article, like a bell on a bike.
Most of what I have to say about this thing I said in the newsletter. The rat-rod items (Stanley Mouse sweatshirts, Rat Fink gear, airbrushed sweats, other car detailer gear) have not taken off in any way whatsoever, despite them being adjacent to jeans, looking like shit, Champion, so many other aesthetics that have been p. big the last few years. Oh well. I would say that leaves more airbrushed white sweatshirts for me, but it doesn’t, since they are so small. Stanley Mouse hasn’t even really gotten an uptick with the Grateful Dead resurgence—most of the bootleg gear sold in lots/online right now is designed as more of a dialog with past GD bootleg gear and with Mouse’s specific GD art than his career as a whole. It might be too on the nose to see a shirt in a lot with a twin-engine Mysterion on it. Makes sense: People only hang out in a Los Angeles stadium parking lots one Sunday a month to appreciate Mouse’s artwork, and a few weeks a year for Phil Lesh, Bob and the gang. I don’t like Mouse’s GD art as much as his car art. Grateful Dead’s aesthetics are a distant second to the other stuff, but I concede skulls are cool.
I gotta be frank: these Mirror Levi’s are the best limited item of clothing released in the past decade. Limited clothing is by definition less interesting than non-limited clothing, since it’s exclusionary and indirect. (I don’t mean limited by price or season or location, that is fine.) I’ve written about this—about sneakers—before and there are exceptions: Thom Browne’s early-era store-only stuff, some CdG Nikes (only a few, like the Mowabb), British clothing. These Levi’s are different since they are limited by their material, and are also a non-limited cut. (The 1976 501 is plain but has a bit more style than the ‘82 501s.) Genius, genius, genius. I regret not buying a pair of these for $500 a couple years ago. Also, I want to thank my editor Sam for allowing me to keep my jewishbusinessnews.com link in the GQ story.
Thanks for reading.
Snake