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Bizarro is brought to you today by Shark Week.From where I sit inside
my own head, there is almost no article of clothing more unappealing than the track suit. What is even stranger than the thought of someone
thinking they looked good in this kind of color-coordinated
baggywear, is the connection, or lack thereof, of the primary groups who wear them.
The fashion track suit is mostly the domain of three distinct groups: the tacky suburban
house frau, goombas like
"Paulie" from
The Sopranos, and hip-hop-happy
urban blacks. How did these three groups become members of the same fashion trend?
I don't know when urban blacks began wearing these eyesores en masse, but my guess is that some iconic fadster like
Sean "P. Duddy" Combs (Piff Daddy? Pap Doodly? P. Poopy?) decided he could manufacture a lot of them very cheaply in Asia, slapped his name on it, then wore one in public. Once the hoards saw him in one, they had to have one, too. A simple sheep/shepherd equation.
Pup Dabby gets rich(er); millions look like walking laundry bags.
The habit among suburban
soccer moms grew from a more utilitarian seed, I suspect . They're chasing their
crotch fruit around 24/7 and have given up caring about the way they look. Their bodies aren't what they once were and these baggy rainbow parachutes hide that (sort of.) They need something that won't wrinkle when they pass out on the couch from gin and pain pills at the end of the day. It also doesn't hurt that these
velour body bags have a built-in contraceptive effect–their husband has to be in a very bad way before he'll come on to woman dressed like Puff Dippy.
Jersey gangster types are perhaps the most puzzling. These are middle-aged, white, often Italian men who are not slaves to hip hop fashion by any means, and not worried about contraception or the shape of their bodies. They are, however, overweight and lacking even a shred of
aesthetic aptitude. Perhaps that is where the secret lies. A man in this position is looking for clothing that will both adjust to his constantly morphing waistline and give him plenty of freedom of movement in his daily activities: threatening, extorting, wacking, eating sausage.
Regardless of the reasons, it is odd that one could accurately structure a
Jeopardy! question thusly:
"Soccer moms, gangstas, and hit men."
"What are three groups that dress alike?"In other news, I made another mistake that I would like to share with you. In the title panel for this cartoon, I looked up the sign language alphabet to spell out "Bizarro." Evidently, I looked at the wrong sign for "R" and used the one for "S" instead, a mistake brought to my attention by several readers, so my original title panel spelled out "Bizasso". The original and the corrected version (for future use) are below.
Today's Bizarro is brought to you by Ghostbusters.
