According to the Washington Post, there’s a fashion phenomenon on the loose: white t-shirts.
“I’ve always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet,” Giorgio Armani wrote in an introduction to a 1996 book called “The White T.”“The creative universe begins with its essentiality, and, whatever path the imagination takes, ends with its purity. . . . I love the T-shirt as an anti-status symbol, putting rich and poor on the same level in a sheath of white cotton that cancels the distinctions of caste.”
Despite that quotation, the story is really about hip-hop culture’s embrace of the oversized, baggy t-shirt. As a white guy from the suburbs who shops at J. Crew, I am not qualified to comment on this, so I won’t.
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