{"id":270,"date":"2004-07-26T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-26T09:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/2004\/7\/irony_is_dead.html"},"modified":"2004-07-26T11:36:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-26T09:36:00","slug":"irony_is_dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/2004\/07\/26\/irony_is_dead\/","title":{"rendered":"irony is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, not really. I did, however, have a sort of rare reality-check opportunity this morning. You know all those 80s-inspired, kinda cute, quasi-ironic clothing options we’ve got at our disposal now? The kind that are so frequently abused? Well, it may be all well and good for a hot 20something to throw on a Members Only<\/a> jacket with his otherwise inoffensive ensemble, but lest we forget, once upon a time people were serious<\/i> about that shit. And, as I was reminded just this morning, some people still are.<\/p>\n

Walking across one of the three parking lots on my daily route between the train and my now-infamous office<\/a>, I spotted a man exiting the building I was about to walk into. Even from a distance, he seemed different. Remarkable. As he drew nearer, the first thing I really registered was the hair: traditional kickstand mullet<\/a>. Then the facial hair: traditional redneck\/NASCAR moustache. Good lord. Remember Jeff Foxworthy<\/a>? Like that, only worse. I looked closer: clearly, this was no hipster. Though he didn’t look to be much over 35, he was undoubtely serious. The hair, the moustache, the skinny jeans and – yes, folks – the brown leather tab-collar Members Only jacket<\/a>: he is the reality of the decade from which so much recent fashion inspiration has been drawn. Let this be a lesson to hipsters everywhere: before you put on those creeper<\/a> shoes, think carefully: there is fun, and then there is reality. The reality is that the 80s were a decade of really horrifying fashion. Pieces here and there are all well and good and clever and fun, and i would be lying if i pretended never to succumb to my disco diva urges, but beware the draw of The Ensemble<\/a>, lest you wind up at the club in orange parachute pants<\/a> and Chuck Taylors<\/a>. Go back and look at photos of real live people back in 1982. There but for the grace of Barney’s<\/a> go you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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