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Issue: June 30, 2003
IT'S amazing what hanging around in the right crowd can do for you.
Until about six months ago, Tonny Sorensen was struggling with his three-year-old Von Dutch clothing line. Then all of a sudden Von Dutch caps, T-shirts and jeans began showing up on style mavens like Britney Spears, Lil' Kim, Fred Durst, Rachel Hunter and others. A streaker at the U.S. Open golf tournament in May had a Von Dutch sweatshirt tied around her waist.
There is now a franchised Von Dutch store in Beverly Hills, with others planned for New York, Las Vegas and in Europe. Meanwhile, boutiques from Paris to Providence, R.I. are now carrying the brand.
"From minus $3 million last year it's probably going to be a $20 million company this year," said Sorensen, a native of Copenhagen and a former Tae Kwon Do world champion. "I'm overwhelmed."
So why would a Dane name start a company called Von Dutch? The company is named after legendary Southern California artist and grease monkey Von Dutch (aka Kenny Howard), who attracted a devoted following between the 1950s and 1970s pinstriping and customizing vintage cars and motorcycles.
Sorensen, who was souping up his 1965 Cadillac DeVille in a Melrose garage, purchased the trademark for the Von Dutch name from the garage owner, who had licensed it from the artist's daughters.
Von Dutch now offers everything from trucker style caps ($35) to custom-made jeans (up to $1,500).
"It started in L.A. and now it's definitely moved to other cities," said Tommy Reid, manager of Montana Avenue boutique Patrick Reid, and brother of actress Tara Reid, an early Von Dutch devotee. "It's a very trendy line because of the celebrities."
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For those attempting to trace the evolution of the txt dialect:
In 1962, abbreviations such as "tx" (thanks), "txt" (text) "pls" (please) and other highly common abbreviations that we all know and love from our mobiles were being used by my mother, working as a Telex operator.
(For those who [dare I suppose it?] don't know, Telex operated via the telephone lines, and was similar to a telegram but business-to-business. Punchcard-era technology, although it had similarities to modern IRC and other chats.)
I think we can safely say that ten to fifteen years is a slightly conservative estimate for the evolution of this particular dialect.
(And as for the comments about grammarians espousing 'correct' or 'proper' usage - I don't want to start an involved debate here, because it's been done to death elsewhere, but most modern, practising grammarians will tell you that, for you, 'correct' or 'proper' English is the English you speak. "Yours Faithfully, Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells" is not a grammarian, he is merely a pedant, although the two are easily confused.)
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GLAM appropriates from the oppressor.
(1) GLAM is constructed of ideas, objects, and styles which come from pop culture. (2) Being GLAM is possible because individuals have the power to choose multiple styles and personae for themselves from the repertoire of stereotypes our culture has created. (3) We are all unable to divest ourselves completely of these preconstructed identities. (4) Instead of swallowing them whole, we can use the power of individual choice to construct as many selves as will be useful to us in our sojourn through the media saturated world. Rather than allowing the Pop Culture machine to define us by defining these possibilities, we can seize signifiers from the aformentioned Machine and use them as powerfully charged elements in the construction of the selves we show to the world."