Hobos must be this generation’s trend setters. Doing my daily pretentious web surfing for deals and steals on clothes, I discovered Gap, my all time addiction, was down. What else was there to do, I needed to quench my thirst of looking at trendy styles so I sat back and pondered. What are other yuppyish, I have nothing better to do with my money, clothing stores. Abercrombie, eh nothing there looks good on me. I wanted some place I haven’t been to in a long time, instantly one name came to mind, well sorta. This store is the nameless store. When ever you venture to a mall this is the store with the Tiki style front and the beautiful people working inside. Often I am shunned and asked to leave politely because of my inability to compete with their standard customer’s angelic beauty.
After much investigating and asking much more in the know people than myself I came to discover this mythical place was known as Hollister. I was intrigued so today I venture in to the domain of my people, the nameless and the faceless, the internet. Where the only thing Hollister would care about is my credit card with its high limit. I shuffled through link after link of outfits hopefully coming across something that would wow me, instead all I saw was one particular style, from Zoolander I would refer to the Hollister Fashion statement as derelict. This brings me back to my original point about Hobos defining fashion. All the clothes at this uber posh preppy wannabe store were torn wrinkled shredded faded and ugly.
Notice the difference between my selected hobo and the Hollister jeans. They are almost identical. Though I suppose the clown’s jeans are a bit more tattered, perhaps this is a sign of things to come. After doing a bit ofresearch I found out that Hollister has only been around for at most 25 years, and I have a sinking feeling that hobos predate this. So it can only be assumed since Hobo’s economic means prevent them from purchasing a pair of 80$ jeans, and that fact that they have been around much longer than Hollister, then the Hobos must be leading the cutting edge of fashion. What is the horizon for us yuppy wannabes? Perhaps sport cars will become a way of the past and we will ride boxcars everywhere we go, overalls will become the fashion statement of the century, and in ten years super models will be drinking giant bottles of moonshine with “xxx” slapped on the sides.