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Take This, Italy!

For the past several days, I’ve been spending every spare minute reading thickly written information about political economies because I’m writing a final essay. As I’ve worked myself harder, I find that more and more often I come to a point where I realize that I’ve been reading away happily and not paying a lick of attention to what’s in front of me. This was going on just now, I was reading an article by Michael Piore (a very famous political economist) when I was roused from my reverie by the following sentence;

The form of fashion may originate in Italy, but the symbolic content of fashion, ranging from blue jeans to baseball caps, tattoos, and ear piercing, originate in the black ghettos and gay discos of the United States.

I’m not entirely sure what relevance this has to the article I’m reading about new versus old structures in the economy. Needless to say, I’m about to go back and find out, but I thought first I’d share this special experience with, well with no one.