Grunge - It's all the rage
"It's not a fashion show," said Ruth Garcia, wearing a pair of jeans gray, black "Thug Life" George W. Bush T-shirt, cap and neon bandana. "We are like beggars."
Garcia, who camped for a week, said she has seen in OB for his all-black clothing, but he insisted: ". I'm not goth" A white cardigan, it is in the "free market" tent lent some credibility to the claim.
"I was wearing it much," she said, adding that she made frequent pit stops at her mother's house in Jamaica Plain.
Comfort takes priority — Mexican blanket shirts, heavy tights and pajama pants — but the weekend sartorial scene ramped up with the increased tourist traffic and schedule of main stage events.
Yesterday, Matt Shuman, 27, a history teacher, helped people make fashion statements with an “Occupy! Boston” stencil and spray paint. A woman passed out dozens of colorful scarves she had knitted for the tent tenants.
They walked to the basketball court, where about 50 students wearing gym pants and gray NBA Cares T-shirts waited under the shade of an aluminum roof. A cordon of teachers encircled the court and shooed away students who tried to rush in for autographs
