Distressed clothing as a look is nothing new, but two recent incarnations leapt out at me. The Carbon2Cobalt catalog I just got features clothes for bros who are In Their Element, but the company doesn’t like to use capitol letters because Real Men don’t want things fussy, Pal. Their stuff looks like it was pre-worn by the kind of Tough Guy every fella wants to be. Carbon2Cobalt is headquartered in Oxnard, California, which has a population of 207,722 and recent demographic data show fully 73% of the residents are Real Men, as defined by the US Census Bureau. But the second example from last week is more remarkable still.
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