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Faith and Fashion

People can be fanatics about their faith.  They can also be fanatical about fashion.  Simply put some think their 'faith in fashion' makes them fashionably faithful.  That is a mouthful. Here is a sampling of what I mean - Do Sardarjis (practioner of Sikhism) ever develop a bald spot?  I have not actually encountered one.  Now that is a classic example of the faith driving their fashion preference.  That of having to wear a pointed hat all the time.  This time to their advantage.  I mean because the faith advises to constantly wear a hat you never know what is hiding underneath.  Like someone said only when the tide goes out can you see who was swimming naked.  No chance of that for these faithful.  So they can live long with the others thinking that they are blessed with a luxuriant mop that does not fade. Yoga Pant-vasion - this new invasion of the spandex like leggings that has American women (some men) hopping (so...

Patent the Langot

To many an unaware individual of the readership the title might appear to be rather bizzare. It is. I for one had to do some quality research on the subject (the Langot) in this case. See the whole effort stemmed from a news article in a reputable financial newspaper formerly owned by a dubious person of Australian origin (dubious applicable to the person's conduct and not so much his origins). Well so much for clues on what paper this was. The (news) article in this case was about a brand called Lululemon suing another competitor in the retail clothing space for a patent on a Yoga Pant. The whole thing sounded so hilarious that I had to read it with much anticipation over tea. The tea was good, the anticipation was about what exactly somebody called Lululemon could possibly sue for? Turns out that this is about how a pant waist band should look and feel and fold and that it was patentable per the US PTO. Another competitor had the nerve or whatever it takes these days, t...