Archive for June, 2008
Yogi Berra, the superstar player and manager of baseball, has been sharing his views on teams and their appearance, but his views go further than sporting achievements. Here’s what he had to say:
- …you have a responsibility to those wearing the same uniform. Break a rule or do something foolhardy, you embarrass the uniform. You embarrass yourself and your team. Wearing a uniform — whether you’re a cop or a coffee shop waitress — carries a responsibility and dependability. To those one serves and those wearing the same uniform.
- When I played in the minors, we wore hand-me-down Yankee uniforms. I don’t know whose old woollen jersey I wore, but Charlie Silvera was always thrilled that he wore Lou Gehrig’s old trousers. Nowadays, nobody wears baggy flannels anymore; there’s no more hand-me-downs. But anyone who puts on a Yankee uniform can’t ignore the history of it all.
- Uniforms are more than a fashion statement. They’re a team’s identity. It’s like what Jerry Seinfeld said about fans: They don’t really root for players, they root for a team’s laundry. I still like that the Yankees still don’t put players’ names on their backs. The team’s identity is more important.
And if Yogi Berra says it, it must be true! I don’t think he’d approve of this T-shirt though …
Anti-yankee T-shirt courtesy of ewan and donabel
June 30th, 2008
We have been advised by several suppliers that prices are increasing. The products ranges affected are Kustom kit, Regatta and Gildan. We are holding our prices existing prices until 1st July, so if you want to avoid the price rises you can stock up now.
The reasons given for the increases are as follows:
- Increased production costs partly due to escalating oil prices.
- A weakening of Sterling.
- Increased distribution costs.
- Increased cotton prices.
- Appreciation of Chinese currency and rising Chinese labour costs.
We also stock thousands of items with discounted prices in our special offer section.
June 27th, 2008
Americans don’t just have the right to bear arms, they assert their rights to express their opinions on their chests. In Florida, former City Commissioner Bruce Tumin doesn’t appreciate how his City Hall spends taxpayer’s cash, including an estimated $20,000 to paint a mural on the roadside. The day the mural-painting project began he turned up wearing his protest - a white polo-shirt sporting the city seal and the word debt. Two days later he received a letter from the city attorney threatening him with legal action unless he stopped wearing the seal-emblazoned polo.
Tumin says the city is targeting him because of his message. ‘They want to keep me silent,’ he complained. ‘I want to tell people the truth.’ But a city official said the letter was not vindictive and had nothing to do with Tumin’s stand on city spending. ‘Once you are out of office, you are out of office,’ a spokesman said. ‘You don’t wear city seal unless you are a city employee.’
Apparently, using the city seal without permission violates state statutes and is a second-degree misdemeanour. This isn’t the first time Mr Tumin has used the seal to show his dissatisfaction with city spending. He didn’t like commissioners overspending by $3 million on a fire station and wore the polo-shirt to the public dedication of the new building.
June 26th, 2008
Polo-shirts are the easiest thing to take on holiday – smart enough (with a jacket) for almost any dining venue and yet comfortable enough for a day’s sightseeing or beach lounging. With a few polo-shirts in your suitcase you have no clothing worries. But how do you pack them? Like this:
Ø Take one polo-shirt and button the collar buttons. Pull the collar straight (or fold it to save on storage space). Hold the shirt by the shoulder seams and shake it so the front and back are properly aligned as if it were on a hanger
Ø Place the polo-shirt face down on a bed or table top and smooth out wrinkles from top to bottom and from side to side.
Ø Grip the shoulder seam in one hand and with the other take the corresponding sleeve and fold it into the middle of the shirt so that the fold makes a perpendicular line from the shoulder seam to the bottom of the shirt. Fold the shirt sleeve in half.
Ø Repeat with the other side of the polo-shirt. Smooth out wrinkles while you fold so there will be fewer wrinkles when you wear the shirt.
Ø Take hold of the bottom right and left sides of the folded shirt. Bring the bottom edge of the shirt up to the bottom of the sleeves. This divides the shirt into thirds.
Ø Bring the folded edge to the top edge of the collar. Turn the shirt over and straighten any wrinkles. Place the folded polo-shirt in your suitcase.
Packed case courtesy of tomeppy
June 23rd, 2008
There’s been a public statement about schoolwear … in the Philippines. Students in elementary and high school there no longer have to wear uniforms, but after this relaxation of the dress code, the Education Department has found it necessary spell out what ‘proper attire’ actually is.
In a circular letter distributed to all schools, the Education Secretary has spelt out and appropriate dress code. For boys, that’s a polo-shirt or T-shirt with sleeves in a plain colour and either long trousers or shorts. For girls, a dress, skirt or trousers, and blouse in any colour will do. No footwear is prescribed: slip-ons and shoes are both allowed as long as the student doesn’t go barefoot to class. The students’ attire ‘should reflect respect for the school’, the letter says. Why has this statement of clothing been necessary? Because there has been an outbreak of: ‘flashy outfits’ including tight-fitting trousers, mini-skirts, and tops with plunging necklines for girls and the boys have apparently been coming to school in hip-hop pants and, believe it or not, their pyjamas!
Schoolchildren courtesy of Tajai
June 19th, 2008
Not bend it like Beckham, but polo it like William! The young man who will eventually be heir to the throne of England has never failed to cause a media riot, but this time, when he stripped off one polo-shirt to don another, the resulting storm of camera shutters nearly startled the polo ponies. Of course everybody is interested in the Prince, but this close attention to his torso may be unwelcome – even if he does seem to have toned up considerably in recent months.
He turned his back to the cameras to remove a bright red polo-shirt (this year’s hot colour, as everybody knows) to replace it with a powder blue one. It seems the intensive flying course he took before being awarded his RAF wings in April has buffed up his bod to an impressive extent.
The prince who, like his father, is a keen polo-player was competing at the annual Chakravarty Cup event in Richmond with his team Umbongo, to raise money for the Prince’s Trust. Fashion stores in the Sloane Square area are already laying in stocks of red and powder blue polo-shirts …
June 16th, 2008
After a bomb-damaged East End could no longer provide a suitable home for London’s garment business, many tailors moved to Carnaby Street and the trend towards turning this otherwise modest street into a ‘rag trade’ centre accelerated when John Stephens, the son of a Glasgow grocer, opened his first boutique in London’s Carnaby Street in the late ’50s selling Mod gear. His greatest success was getting men to follow fashion just as much as women did, but it wasn’t until 1965 when Mary Quant designs clothes hit the streets that swinging London was really born and Carnaby Street became the place to see and be seen. The sixties were also the era of male fashion – there was Twiggy of course, and Quant herself, and other sixties icons like Jean Shrimpton, but above all it was the men who were in the spotlight.
Whether you were a Beatles fan or a Rolling Stones follower, or whether the Beach Boys or The Doors were your groove, masculine fashion filled the newspapers and the newly developed colour television. Long suede coats with fringing, headbands, embroidered jeans and tie-dyed tops made men look dramatic and androgynous – combined with the long plaits and massive outbreak of facial hair that heralded the hippie era, it often looked as if city streets had been attacked by a bunch of fashion conscious bears.
When you see the die-hards who still dress ‘sixties’ it can seem like a blessing that the phase of the peacock male has passed, but it has left its imprint – men are more adventurous in clothing and more conscious of the impression they make. Proof can be found in the sudden upsurge of pink polo-shirts being worn this summer: that would never have happened before the 1960s!
Lennon courtesy of All Posters
