The Week contest: Tele-fashion
This week's question: Walmart has seen a decrease in sales of pants, but an increase in sales of tops, as locked-down white-collar workers shift to videoconferencing and need only worry about how they look from the waist up. Please come up with the name of a new fashion line for people who only see their coworkers on teleconferences and Zoom.
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THE WINNER: "Yves Sans Le Pants"
Margaret Baker, Hillsboro, West Virginia
SECOND PLACE: "Fruit of the Zoom"
Laurel Rose, Pittsburgh
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THIRD PLACE: "MacySomethin' When I Stand Up"
Rebecca J. Bené, Millersville, Maryland
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Pantsagonia"
Sue Free, San Francisco
"The North Waist"
Lisa Munsch, Boulder, Colorado
"Halph Lauren"
Jason Kuller, Bethesda, Maryland
"L.L. Seen Too Much"
Andrew Coyne, New York City
"P.J.Maxx"
Joanna Beletic, New York City
"Work from Homme"
Pete Winslow, Alexandria, Virginia
"Button Down the Hatches"
Lawton Stephens Jr., Colorado Springs, Colorado
"Nothing Goes to Waist"
Sam Mahmoud, Kenmore, Washington
"Upper Level Management"
Patty Oberhausen, Fort Wayne, Indiana
"Half-Dressed for Success"
Clifford Pepperman, Tarzana, California
"Above the Belt"
Alan Samit, Flemington, New Jersey
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