Jan 21, 2010
trend alert: anti-ballistic clothing
As usual, the style pages of The New York Times are an easy target for snarky blog posts. Today they announce that anti-ballistic clothing is a trend started by the show “24,” then the hip hop community (see 50 Cent below), and now straight to the hipsters. If I was the style reporter covering the trend, I would have mentioned that the growing market in ballistic protection clothing reflects the heightened paranoia of fashionistas due to growing economic disparities (lay-offs vs. executive compensation) and an increase in firearms sales (sprinkled with looser gun laws).
50 cent
Hipster wearing Bullet-proof T-shirt from Dynomighty
Related:
Protect Yourself From Ballistic Attacks
Also, see my article in the current issue of The Baffler, “Keep Your Executive Bonus and Avoid Ballistic Attacks”