Bubbie’s Cloths are high fashion

I was walking down State street today on my lunch break and saw a man about my age in a great sports coat walking towards me. It was well-tailored, great black on black striped fabric, a beautiful garment that stood out as not some generic coat that looks like any other sports coat. I was admiring this mans taste and wishing I could afford to spend the kind of money ‘m sure he did on a single item of clothing. I don’t even know where to buy nice cloths. I shop at Macy’s. Then my envy was replaced with nausea as he turned into a building and I saw the rhinestone skull on the back of this otherwise awesome coat. My first thought was, “This is why you don’t buy cloths in South beach ” Miami is the only place I have ever seen this style on people walking the streets on any wide scale. There it makes sense. The city is full of old Jewish Grandmas. My Bubbie and her friends wear gold lame and bedazzled clothing. Some where in the last few years this trend moved to a younger demographic and got “edgy” rather than the sweaters with cat motifs featuring rhinestone eyes the in thing is skulls, but still with lots of metallic gold and sparkling facetted plastic. Next it will become popular to play mahjong or canasta and kvetch.

Exhibit A (Tacky!)