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Carhartt

Get Back to Essential Clothes

January 30, 2012

This day in history: in 1969 the Beatles performed together for the last time, and it happened on the roof of Apple Records in London. Picture this: the Beatles are up on the roof, playing, and the police show up. Why? Because nearby office workers have complained that they can’t get their work done. Whoa. [...]

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You Can Take It With You

January 26, 2012

What’s with all that “You Can’t Take It With You” approach? We just don’t get it. You can always take it with you unless, like, the It in question is an elephant. You could theoretically take the elephant with you, but that would be more trouble than it’s worth. Then you have to worry about [...]

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Covering Up for All the Right Reasons

January 19, 2012

So yesterday Wikipedia went dark. And Google had a black rectangle over its logo, with just a hint of the “g’s” blue tail peeking out from below. Protest stuff, making a statement over an issue. And it got us thinking about how we cover ourselves, too…with clothes. We’re not Adam and Eve—unless your name is [...]

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Your Own Private, Moveable Virgin Islands

January 16, 2012

Tomorrow in history: On January 17th, 1917, the United States bought the Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million. Adjusted for inflation, and factoring in some depreciation, not to mention some creative bookkeeping by this blog’s accounting department, that price is only just slightly higher than what you’ll pay for a quality garment from Dave’s [...]

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The Encyclopedia of Style

January 14, 2012

Having survived Friday the 13th relatively intact, the Calendar Department of this blog now prepares you for January 15th. And on this day in ancient history (well, in 2001, which only seems like a long, long time ago), Wikipedia, that Internet encyclopedia thingamabob, went live, online, into the electronically connected universe. And we learned this, [...]

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Ring in the New Year

December 31, 2011

Okay. The stroke of midnight tonight is all relative, depending on where in the world you are. In Rio, you’ve got fireworks on the beach. If you happen to be in Samoa, consider hopping across the international dateline and literally being able to celebrate 2012 twice, and in real time. In Minnesota, all the shopping [...]

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Leaping into Leap Year

December 30, 2011

We’d wax all nostalgic about the year that was 2011, but we’re too excited about the prospects for 2012 to get too sentimental. Still, it’s not too late to tell you that 2011 was the United Nations’ International Year of Forests and the International Year of Chemistry. Okay. Enough about that. 2012 is a leap [...]

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Cotton: An Appreciation

December 28, 2011

As a public service, and because we wear so much of it in so many ways, we figured that an appreciation of cotton was in order. First of all, cotton is a plant; it grows as a shrub in the tropics and subtropics. Its fiber is harvested and spun into thread, and from that thread [...]

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A Holiday Poem For You

December 24, 2011

T’was the night before Excess, when all through the house
All the closet creatures were stirring, scaring even the mouse;
The coats were hopping on their hooks with some flare
In hopes that Dave’s New York soon would be there.
The boots were stomping…because noise was the goal,
While visions of winter socks danced on their inner sole.
And jeans with [...]

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Ten Days to Shop…Until You Shop Some More

December 16, 2011

Only 10 more shopping days until the second busiest shopping day of the year. Yes, the day after Christmas…when we’re so satisfied with our gifts and the spirit of family that we flee first thing next morning to the mall to exchange everything for something else. S’alright. It’s the hustle and bustle of commerce. It’s [...]

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