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Are Clothes Still Clothes?
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Are Clothes Still Clothes?

Or, why it's so hard to figure out what someone stands for these days.

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Do you remember when “clothes made the man?” I sure as hell do. It was a phrase that you lived and died by in the 90s. During that time, wearing the wrong clothes would make you a pariah.

Hell, it was still that way in the 2000s.

It wasn’t too long ago that I could tell almost everything by the brand of clothing a person …

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