A year into the pandemic, with high-fashion trends nonexistent, everywhere I look people are cloaking themselves in NYC merch — from the average citizen to the hipsters of Bed-Stuy. And not just the classic I❤️NY tees or Knicks jerseys but hats from Con Ed or their local hardware store. Unable to travel but spared the herds of sidewalk-clogging tourists, New Yorkers have been supporting their neighborhood joints, snapping up polity-branded souvenirs as if we were flyover kids on a shopping spree in a Times Square gift shop. Wearing the “Yankee fitted,” as the nonadjustable cap is known, has long been a way for people to declare unironically, “I am on Team NYC.” Repping the city by repping its establishments — forestalling their bankruptcies one T-shirt purchase at a time — has become a big part of street style
Who's guilty of this? What's your home town and what are you wearing?
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | March 1, 2021 6:54 PM |
What’s with Dr Zizmor’s eye?
As for cloaking myself in apparel that signals a strong familiarity with NYC... nah. This city is over. There’s nothing to celebrate about it at this point.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | March 1, 2021 1:39 PM |
Just another New Yorker desperately trying to cling onto the past. Oh please, let everybody acknowledge that New York is the greatest city in the world and that the citizens are not prouder than ever. And please, despite the fact that I called you " flyovers," please come to New York and spend money, even though we look down upon you as sub-human. We need your money or we can't survive. You can tell who we are, because we're all wearing Yankees caps.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | March 1, 2021 2:31 PM |
There you go again. Why, whatever happened to you, never realized your dreams in New York? It is a cruel city I grant.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | March 1, 2021 6:54 PM |