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fashion
Portable Cellphone Booth
By 5.23.06
Mobile privacy booths for cellphone users. Inextricably set to an Aphex Twin track.
UPDATE: Lipstick Lesbians Can’t Save FCUK, Even Through Plagiarism
By 5.17.06
Did you like that FCUK Lipstick Lesbian Kung-Fu Fighting video we posted earlier? We did too, so much that we’re going to post it again… only this time, we’re going to post the Groovecutters’ ‘We Close Our Eyes’ music video its totally fucking plagiarizing.
Urbanely Renew Chest Space
By 5.17.06
In a never-ending quest to provide you with attractive ways to shield your body from water, sun and wind, we stumbled across a trove of graphic shirts sure to make lesser t-‘s shiver themselves into threadlessness.
Lipstick Lesbians Can’t Save FCUK
By 5.17.06
FCUK’s sales have collapsed after airing a commercial in which two women, incarnating the twin ideals of Style and Fashion, slap at each other and rip off one another’s bras before being sprayed with a hose by a crowd of cheering men. Then they reconcile, sealing their newfound friendship by jamming their tongues down each other’s throats.
Peeping Tom on 5th Ave Shop Windows
By 5.12.06
As promised, the results of our Tuesday stroll down 5th avenue, peeking inside all the windows and seeing what we could see. Not all stores are represented in this set; frankly, we found many of the displays tired and staid. Here’s a few things that caught our eye, in a magic Flickr gallery.
The Adicolors of the Rainbow
By 5.12.06
The first two minutes are a touch slow but then the panda and the fish start playing russian roulette.
Saks’ Dumpster-Dived Window Displays
By 5.10.06
Saks has a new window display up on 5th Avenue until this Thursday.
Smell of Discount Designer Duds Like Sweet Puke
By 5.4.06
The prospect of crazy fashion deals is usually considered “sick” as in “sweet” as in “bad like early Michael Jackson good.”
Guess There’s No ‘Five-Second Rule’ In Shopping
By 5.4.06
Shoppers are less likely to buy clothing if they think it has been touched by others, accordinig to a recent study at the University of Alberta.
Our Threadless Tshirts Arrive
By 5.3.06
Huzzah, our Threadless tshirts came in the mail today. Both beautiful packages were delivered at the same time. Here’s our catwalk. Click on a photo to start the fashion slideshow. The code is a little buggy, if the photo dissapears, refresh or go backwards.
UPDATE: Ugly American Apparel
By 5.1.06
Last week, Holly complained about some shoddily constructed American Apparel shirts she bought that disentegrated shortly after purchase.
Threadless.com, Undone by Lazy Customer Service
By 5.1.06
UPDATE: We’ve reconsidered. We messed up. We came across like stupid whiny bitches. We tried to abuse the power of blogs to get what we wanted. There was a good way to go about this, and an asshat way, we chose the latter. We’re sorry, Threadless, Shondi, Consumerist readers and all witnesses of this online travesty. Egg on the face while eating crow, scooped in with our own foot, really. You can keep reading further if you’re the type who enjoys slow-moving car accidents.
