Fashion bashin': Vice magazine's take-no prisoners fashion guide is universally offensive and very funny.Dos & Don'ts * Gavin McInnes Gavin Miles McInnes (b. 1970), along with Suroosh Alvi and Shane Smith, founded Vice Magazine in 1994. Originally a low-budget zine entitled Voice of Montreal * Vice/Time Warner * $17.95 Is your outfit gay? Not gay as in "homosexual," mind you, but gay as in "stupid." It's the preferred definition among countless middle school students, after all. And if you and your beloved are wearing matching T-shins or you've chosen the wrong ugly sweater or perhaps a leather-studded jacket complemented by bug-eye sunglasses, then you sartorial sar·to·ri·al adj. Of or relating to a tailor, tailoring, or tailored clothing: sartorial elegance. [From Late Latin sartor, tailor; see sartorius. choices, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the young hip creators of underground culture bellwether Vice magazine, are officially "gay." Now, if that particular usage offends you, then you're not going to like Dos & Don'ts, the latest book from Vice, in which even toddlers are taken to task for daring to be seen in public in elastic-waist purple pants. If, however, you're a fan of the gleefully glee·ful adj. Full of jubilant delight; joyful. glee  ful·ly adv.glee obnoxious glossy's posteverything take on matters of race, gender, and sexuality, one in which words like "faggot" are meant, if not necessarily affectionately, then at least as simple descriptive monikers stripped of malice, you're going to laugh until the milk squirts from your nose. Dos & Don'ts, with its often clandestine street-level snapshots and meaner-than-mean critiques that make Mr. Blackwell come off like Mr. Rogers, offers a crash course on how to win the messy low rent style sweepstakes as well as paper cut-sharp eviscerations of everyday folks in bad clothes, Renaissance Faire-attendees, velvetswathed goths Goths: see Ostrogoths; Visigoths. , the elderly, neo-Nazis, house pets, and deceased tattooed bikers. The Vice guillotine guillotine Instrument for inflicting capital punishment by decapitation. A minimal wooden structure, it supported a heavy blade that, when released, slid down in vertical guides to sever the victim's head. falls on everyone and anyone, the just and the tinjust, and miraculously makes fashion-bashing something more than comedy or a middlebrow mid·dle·brow n. Informal One who is somewhat cultured, with conventional tastes and interests; one who is neither highbrow nor lowbrow. [middle + (high)brow and (low)brow. one-liner in Us Weekly. In their cruelly funny hands, talking about clothing becomes talking about life, art, sex, politics, everything. Sounds gay, I know. Bitter, party of three Samples of Vice's priceless commentaries that skewer the fashion-challenged: The woman in the for is dubbed the "mind-blowingly hot" mistress of a dead Italian, while the young man is presumed a French Canadian whose "huge women's earrings" are a faux pas surpassed only by his mom's "biker shorts," White writes on film for E! Online. |
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