The Week contest: Dirty fashion
Last week's question: The high-end retailer Nordstrom was widely ridiculed after it started selling $425 jeans that come caked with fake mud, to make it look like the wearer was prepared "to get down and dirty." If Nordstrom were to launch a new line of pre-dirtied workwear for lazy fashionistas, what name should it give the brand?
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THE WINNER: "Yves Stained Laurent"
Michael Rouse, Troy, Mich.
SECOND PLACE: "J Construction Crew"
Greg Pal, Mountain View, Calif.
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THIRD PLACE: "Giorgio Armuddy"
Sue Wehrspann, Denver
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Calvin Grime"
Janine Witte, New Hope, Pa.
"Fauxveralls"
Mitch Gordon, St. Paul, Minn.
"Abercrombie and Filth"
Ray Hays, Galesburg, Ill.
"Mold Navy"
Doug Richardson, Winsted, Conn.
"Mucky Brand"
Ken Bowser, Lowell, Mass.
"(I don't really work at the) Dockers"
Jeff Kelle, Signal Mountain, Tenn.
"Victoria's Dirty Secret"
Tim Byther, Superior, Colo.
"J. Crewwwww"
Ken Kellam III, Dallas
"Kate Spade & Shovel"
Patty Oberhausen, Fort Wayne, Ind.
"Mud in America"
Phyllis Klein, Forest Hills, N.Y.
"Fruit of the Loam"
Jason Kuller, Bethesda, Md.
"Untrue Grit"
James Byrne, Leavenworth, Kan.
"Dung-arees"
Susan Ferrandiz, Portersville, Pa.
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