I've never been reluctant to criticize such style missteps as Val Kilmer's abhorrently huge bolo tie--but even I can't stand being ridiculed by GQ magazine.
Here's the blurb from GQ, which ranks Santa Fe 16th in its "deeply scientific, irrefutable" (according to the tongue-in-check press release) list of the 40 Worst-Dressed Cities in America:
Fair enough on the tourist front--but if GQ's scientific researchers bothered to explore beyond the Plaza, they'd find that no local would be caught dead in a designer buckskin jacket or a cowboy hat with a chin strap.
Perhaps it's the magazine's fault for confusing New Mexico with Texas.
However, console yourselves: At least we're not #1. That lovely honor will be revealed Friday.
Come on now, it's true, true, true. Partly because there is laxity here to dress however you want. Coming from Los Angeles, which is the other spectrum extreme, I have seen some horrific, ostentatious western style, deep-cut panty lines pudge-bulging with lycra, moon-unit outfits from the 80's, and hirsute new agey women with armpit forests.
I say let's celebrate our universal good/bad taste and call it the ultimate human freedom to choose whatever we feel like, who cares what anyone else thinks! Go Santa Fe, keep your freak on and on and on.
exactly! here in new mexico, we don't care what we wear. I have worn socks and sandles every day for the last 3 months.
yes it's true. What do you expect? we're a poor state, it's a cowboy culture (never ever thought cowboy wear was attractive) and people just don't care.