Amen’s jumper by the all-American preppy label J Crew has sent thousands of Maga Americans into meltdown. From a fashion point of view, it couldn’t be more innocuous. It’s got a crew neck. It’s made from wool. It has a Fair Isle pattern at the upper yoke. There’s nothing asymmetric about it, no fringing or tassels, no slogan blasted across the front; no “Make America Kind Again”. So what’s the big deal? Reader, the jumper is pink.
Wellll… I mean… It *is* the Perfect Gift to give to….anyone… to tell them that you really don’t like them…. 😉
“Tim Burchett, a Tennessee Republican congressman, called the sweater “something a sorority girl would wear in the 80s”. I think he meant it witheringly; I read that and think it sounds quite fun.”
Well, yes. That’s the crux of the problem – he’s a man and you’re a woman.
Well yeah. I’m old fashioned. I don’t wear womens’ clothes.
Nothing wrong with Pink As a colour per we- the main issue with the garment is the pattern on the jumper which just looks plain awful. Like something you’d have seen in a sitcom in the 1970s.
Additionally the co-opting of the colour pink by ‘Big Gay’ does grate with some people. I would caution the author against hubris. Unless Islamism is tackled I don’t think the LGB culture has a long term future… Under MAGA it would probably be tolerated between consenting adults. Under ISIS your gay colleagues will have to learn to fly unaided or operate acephalously.
Not sure where this sits in the Pantheon of Gayness!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/formulaone/article-15318503/Bizarre-moment-Max-Verstappen-Lando-Norris-George-Russell-driven-pink-LEGO-Cadillac-Hollywood-actor-Las-Vegas-GP.html
Looks to me like the Barbie car made out of Lego. I’d drive it for a laugh; I’ve seen people drive dafter things than that. Me dad in his Bond 3-wheeler that you had to raise the bonnet to kick-start, to begin with. And then his Messerschmitt.
It looks like something out of the ladies section of the Freeman’s catalogue.
It might just pass muster as a chap’s sweater if brown or black, but in pink or a pastel it is definitely for girlies.
Anyway that pattern is horrible.
The real fashion faux-pas there is the denim shirt underneath! I mean, what was he thinking?
Ok for precious narcissists, I guess, and a good way of identifying such. Bonus is making them poorer with the outrageous price.
One hundred and sixty eight dollars.
Bloody hell.
MAGA meltdown? Really? Someone is fooling themselves that the right react with the same Reeee that the left does. That their pathetic sweater is a weapon in the cultutre wars. It isn’t, it’s a poor taste sweater at Christmas time, as usual.
What was that Richard Briers sitcom which had Howard and Hilda the neighbours always in matching sweaters?
Was it Ever decreasing circles?
A bit like Spuds economic ideas, as they circle the drain of life…
Ever Decreasing Circles.
Briers pulls off that trick again; making a deeply unlikable character incredibly sympathetic.
Great stuff from all involved. Including the bloke who had to set the telephone in the hall up each time.
I’m hesitant to associate Murphy either with such a comedy classic or the notion that he is, or could ever be, ‘incredibly sympathetic’. He is an exemplar of pure evil and bereft of any redeeming qualities sadly.
The Murph is Martin dialled up to eleventy; entering the hall, he notices the telephone; then fails to discover the rest of house.
Yeah, I’m an American and if there were this “MAGA meltdown”, I’d have seen links to it from the sites I read.
There’s also a reason the vast majority of what I wear is single-color stuff.
Typical Graun article, where English is written in a mix of Americanisms, down with the kids slang and erudite English like what we spoke at Oxford, like.
Their is a tradition of men wearing pink in the States. The pink button-down shirt, the pink polo shirt, even the iconic Nantucket Reds. But two things here: first, as the author gets close to mentioning, these are associated with the Establishment Republicans, the old guard whom the MAGA crowd despise, and second, there is pink and there is pink. The old guard don’t wear Barbie pink.
Also, that Fair Isle pattern at the yoke reminds me of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s lace collar.
Bullshit. Americans are asking, “What’s a ‘jumper?'”
Bullshit. Maga Americans couldn’t care less. ‘Meltdown’ is what Guardian writers do.