hey y'all

not sure if you've checked out the 'news' section of my blog yet, it's pretty cool

23 March 2009

I have died.

ZACHARY GERMAN

DECEMBER 17 1988 - MARCH 23 2009

WILLIAMSBURG - Pet care professional Zachary German passed away a short time after midnight on Monday, March 23rd. Cause of death is unknown.

In lieu of flowers, donations to 826 Valencia are suggested.

(In a Dickian twist of fate, this universe is no more than German's never-ending dream.)

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Fred Perry clothing brand

In the late 1940s, Perry was approached by Tibby Wegner, an Austrian footballer who had invented an anti-perspirant device worn around the wrist. Perry made a few changes and invented the sweatband. Wegner's next idea was to produce a sports shirt, which was to be made from white knitted cotton pique with short sleeves and buttons down the front. Launched at Wimbledon in 1952, the Fred Perry polo shirt was an immediate success. The brand is best known for its laurel logo, which appears on the left breast of the tennis shirts. The laurel logo (based on the old Wimbledon symbol) was stitched into the fabric of the shirt instead of merely ironed on (as was the case with the crocodile logo of the competing Lacoste brand).

The polo shirt was only available in white until the late 50s when the mods picked up on it and demanded a more varied colour palette. It was the shirt of choice for diverse groups of teenagers throughout the 1960s and 70s, ranging from the skinheads to the Northern Soul scene. More recently the new wave of "Indie Kids" also wear the polo shirts, often with all of the buttons done.

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

::wails::

DJ Berndt said...

oh no!

jamie said...

update z german is alive but being 'douchy'

Anonymous said...

i miss zac so much now that he's dead i never realized what we had as friends and lovers until he died i don't know how much longer i can go on myself

Abigail Lloyd said...

did u take my 'wind up bird chronicles'?

Abigail Lloyd said...

update zachary german is alive but he is a girl.