Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Sixties Wasn't a Safe Place

from Vice's Fashion Dos & Don'ts

The '60s wasn’t the safest place in the world for black people, but fashion-wise it couldn’t be more risk-free.

The magazine's beloved street fashion critiques have never shied from non-sequitur, but this one jumped out. In fashion and culture, people refer to "place" in a figurative manner: taking an idea to a "different place" can mean developing it uniquely. Here the sixties inexplicably make the jump from a time period to a historical milieu to a set of wardrobe choices.

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