ARCADE CHIC
A true vidiot realizes that, above all else, style and elegance count the most. Style and elegance expressed not only through game-playing, not only through the active pursuit of leisure, but through the dress and wearing apparel that marks one throughout life.
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ARCADE CHIC
Electronic Fashions for the '80s
A true vidiot realizes that, above all else, style and elegance count the most. Style and elegance expressed not only through game-playing, not only through the active pursuit of leisure, but through the dress and wearing apparel that marks one throughout life. There are, plainly, ways to dress and ways not to dress. True vidiots need not be told. Join us here at VIDIOT, then, as we explore the concept of Dressing Up For The Game, exploring the ways and means of a lifestyle defined not simply by what you wear, but what you play-and how you weal that. Elegance is, dear vidiots, as elegance does-nest-ce pas?
(At left) Aliens touched my space suit...Tim breaks out the leathers to play macho and feels a bit schizophrenic, thank you...His alter ego dudes up in a driving suit stolen from Paul Newman, and vainly battles for Pole Position.
What happens when preppette meets Val? Absolutely nothing! The girls celebrate being and nothingness by matching wits with Ms. Pac-Man and getting smashed I Get real, why don’t you? I mean...
OK, so what if army fatigues are the latest thing among the swingin' 60*year-otd set; you started wearing these bozo rags first, and by crackey, you aren't going to give your pretty pants up for any grandma! Just so they don't hurt you...
Happy Tim's finally found a woman who can beat him at Q*Bert...and has good taste in socks I "None of that Hanes business, I like fake '50s designs with figures on them and stuff" quipped the articulate Tim. Carey enjoys the unique sensation only sitting on a video game can produce...
Fashions courtesy of Valente’s Formal Wear, Dittrich Furs, Mark Keller, Incognito, It’s The Ritz and Joe's Army & Navy Surplus.
