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How the Gay Community Helped Popularize Workwear Gear Patrol

Fashion has always been a signifier. Of musical tastes, of particular style tribes, of social status, even of sexuality. Countless subcultures have actively pursued certain dress codes to align themselves with like-minded individuals. Think rare Air Jordan’s for sneakerheads, oxford cloth button-downs with soft collar rolls for prep enthusiasts, selvedge jeans for denimheads. Whether it’s a certain color, accessory, brand or silhouette, subcultures have taken anything and everything in clever and overt ways. What you might not realize is that much of the fashion that has seeped into popular menswear today has been propagated and popularized by the gay community. For years,...

Like a disco beat, 70s style stays alive - Los Angeles Times

Like a disco beat, ‘70s style stays alive If ‘70s nostalgia were a religion, and it’s beginning to feel that way, devotees would certainly make a pilgrimage to Silver Lake, where the boutiques are almost shrines to the time, Farrah Fawcett and Scott Baio are rendered in iconic oil paintings, and weathered vintage T-shirts are handled like precious artifacts. Men here are most reverential, wearing a look of studied “unkempt” with bushy sideburns or several days’ beard growth, aviator sunglasses, shaggy hair with severe side-parts, and tight jeans. They speak lovingly of the 1970s, a decade they cherish as the last era of authentic cool. “It was the tail end of good times,” says musician...