brooklyn gal for a while

hep handbags

I was recently in Old Navy (its within the 12 min radius of work) and saw the bag on the left. I immediately thought of Brooklyn Industries.* I think this is funny. I'm not sure if I think its funny as in ha-ha, or funny peculiar, but funny non the less. If your not familiar with BI, it's the kind of place that sells "unique" t-shirts and bags (bag on right) and what not, you know, where people go to get stuff to have an "individual" look. However, they really only offer 6 styles, so all the other pseudo-hipsters who dont want to look like they walked out of Gap end up having the same shit anyway. And now the Gap-affiliate shoppers will too.

*sadly, not even "made in brooklyn"

posted by gordian knot @ Sunday, February 26, 2006