photo credit: Tonio Vega
Men’s underwear.
Per the Washington Post, and countless threadbare-boxer-wearing economists:
Sales of men’s underwear typically are stable because they rank as a necessity. But during times of severe financial strain, men will try to stretch the time between buying new pairs, causing underwear sales to dip.
When this jobless lady celebrated her birthday in style at Water Taxi Beach, Long Island City, YUD Fashion Director Lindsey Hunter Lopez was there to ask the important questions.
Karen Berg loves her cuffed white cargo shorts. “Look, they’re too big!” she points out. “Comfy.” (There’s plenty of time to work out when you don’t have a job.) A flowy black tank completes her carefree ensemble. She has shoes somewhere in the sand, but she doesn’t need them at this beach bar.
While I interrogate her about her choices, this former health editor sips her favorite accessory, a vodka soda, and shows off a vibrant red manicure.
We all know what YUD wears when she’s—how shall we say?—got no place employmenty to go. But what about the rest of us 361,000? And further afield from that, in other cities and states and countries, what are the unemployed donning before they head out into the big, bad world each day … or, no judgments, when they make no departure from their tender abodes at all?
Lindsey Hunter Lopez: EMPLOYED
Thank heavens we are now in the occasionally manicured hands of YUD’s new Fashion Director, Lindsey Hunter Lopez, who will be offering us weekly glimpses at the faces—and fashions—of the recession with her Unemployment Lookbook.
