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Beautiful rare '90s RALPH

Beautiful rare '90s RALPH

Spyplane Jawn Archeology, plus new natural-dyed slappers and cult visionary TV

May 19, 2022
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Today we’ve got recon on natural-dye slappers and a cult visionary TV show…

But first — if you grew up, as I (Jonah) did, in ‘90s-era NYC, there was a stretch when you were inundated daily with the sight of swaggy people rocking all manner of excellent Ralph Lauren gear — a phenomenon that included Steve Martin (in a monster fit, w/ Mephistos, below right) and reached its apotheosis with the Lo Lifes (below left), a crew of outerborough POLO BOOSTERS who rocked more-graphical Ralph jawns very saucily...

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