To be honest, this video is like some terrible ménage à trois gone wrong between 1970's Houston Astros & San Diego Padres jerseys, some ugly YSL haute couture I saw in a Michigan Avenue window display in the mid-'80's before a Cubs game, and listening to Heino music with early '70's Sally Kellerman lookalikes from the Leipzig Revolutionary Ballet dancing for Der Kommissar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q0-rh7F-64
Bundesliga fashion gone wrong!
The crazy thing is, the afternoon that the Steelers beat the Raiders in the "Immaculate Reception" game in December of 1972, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07zsdF0ysP0 , I was throwing a football around during halftime with a neighborhood kid named Kris whose family had actually escaped from East Germany, and he wore clothes that looked a lot like the ones in this video.
Especially brown with stripes!
Finally, one afternoon, under the pretext of us going to see a movie at the 163rd Street Shopping Center up the street, when it was still an outdoor center, and walked him into the Burdine's that I'd work at a few years later, and introduced him to the classic world of Izod Lacoste.
I explained to him that he wasn't in East Germany anymore and that everyone at JFK Junior High School, regardless of their sex, race, ethnicity, wealth, personality or looks had to have three of these double knit cotton shirts in their closet, since first of all, everyone looked good in them, and secondly, they went so well with accessories, so he needed to have the following colored shirts: white, red, and navy blue.
I further explained that regardless of what the social norms were in his old stomping grounds, American girls could handle different as long as it was on their terms, but strange was a different situation all together.
He'd never be able to be friends with classy and ethereally good-looking girls like Marybeth Irizarry if he persisted in wearing brown shirts with vertical stripes.
It was just not gonna happen if he's walking around looking like a Gulden's mustard container.
The rest is history.
De nada Kris from Deutschland!
See also: http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/treasure-trove-on-tcm-today-casablanca.html
