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Dickies Clothes: No Mickey Mouse Operation

July 18, 2011

Today in history: In 1955, Disneyland opened for business in Southern California. Almost 30,000 people showed up (they expected 11,000). A plumbers strike meant an executive decision between toilets that flushed or drinking fountains that worked (Disney opted for the toilets). The freshly poured asphalt went soft in the 100-degree weather. The concession stands ran [...]

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A Kardashian, Jerry Garcia, “Star Wars” and Dickies

June 26, 2011

Okay, tomorrow is Khloé Kardashian’s birthday. She’ll be 27 years old, further proving our point that the US population is divided into two categories: those who first watched “Star Wars” at the movie theater, and those who watched it on first on the smaller screen (via your choice of VCR, DVD, hand-held media device, etc.). [...]

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Sneaking Through the Alley with Dickies

May 13, 2011

We want to share with you a pretty remarkable place in Manhattan, but we can’t tell you where precisely it is because…well, we want to keep it to ourselves for just a while longer. It’s an alley, and it’s in Chinatown. There. That’s all you’ll get from us about location. What makes the alley remarkable [...]

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This Day in History: You Wear Great Clothes

March 29, 2011

As a public service, we’d like to prepare you for March 30th in terms of how the day’s gone throughout history. On this day…In 1863, Greece picks a Danish prince as its king (don’t ask; it’s a bit like LeBron James moving from Cleveland to Miami; but don’t ask). In 1909, the Queensboro Bridge opens, [...]

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A Touch of Green

March 17, 2011

Everywhere we looked today, people were wearing green. Green shirts, green pants, green hats. There were green stickers on cars and business doors. We know it was a tough winter around here, and people might be campaigning for spring to come early (three more days; tough it out, we say). And today’s weather was terrifically [...]

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The Five Fs of Clothing Comfort

March 16, 2011

Along comes a theory that there are four Fs to clothing comfort: Fashion, Feel, Fit and Function. And while we accept the hypothesis, our research indicates that it seems only 80% baked. That is, we’re missing one essential F, one all-encompassing word that transforms the idea into clothing’s version of a theory of everything. And [...]

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Timeless Clothing That’s Off the Clock

March 12, 2011

Okay, we won’t go all Einstein here, but we’re convinced that Time is a relative thing. It’s not perfect. They’re always adding seconds to the end of years (a leap second) in order to catch up to whatever needs catching up to. They’re always messing with February, making it 28 days, sometimes 29. And now [...]

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In Like a Lion, and Out Like a Lamb, in Great Clothes

February 28, 2011

March arrives. We say it comes in like a lion, goes out like a lamb. Just as we go into an all-you-can-eat restaurant for dinner and come out a glutton from our own punishment. Or: just as Rocky always comes into the ring like an underdog and goes out looking like Sylvester Stallone, who made [...]

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Clothes to Loop into the New Year

January 3, 2011

For the new year, we’d like to discuss the most underappreciated, underrated aspect of fashion. Of course, we’re talking about the locker loop. Genius, this piece of fabric. On shirts, they sew it where the pleat meets the yoke. But let’s not get too technical. The locker loop, as in: use the loop to hang [...]

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Are These Clothes Evolutionary? Let’s Debate.

November 3, 2010

Okay, we know this a clothing blog. Certain rules apply. Provoking a debate over fiscal responsibility is a bit beyond the scope of our mission. That said, we want to introduce a provocative notion dealing with creation and evolution. Because, naturally, it has everything to do with clothes.
Case in point: “Inherit the Wind,” made 50 [...]

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