Fashion Scene & Herd

Scene & Herd

Posted by Kim Gooden and Kim Rinehimer on Aug. 25, 2006, at 4:22 pm

’Cause lookin’ cool ain’t easy.

Name: Khalid Larkin

Age: 25

Occupation: Cafe Saint-Ex employee

Residence: Shaw

Spotted: 7:45 p.m., 14th and S Streets NW

Destination: Barnes & Noble in Georgetown, to read

Style Definition: “Small T-shirts, tight [Levi's] jeans. [My style] is first-wave punk. That’s the music I listen to, so that’s the look I go for.”

Hipster Giveaway: He looks like a bike messenger but isn’t one. Speaking about his hat, he says, “I just wear them because it helps with the sweat.” His Peugeot bike cost him $50 at L&N Thrift.

Tattoos: Three on his forearm—a snake on a heart, a beet, and a parallelogram. “My friend Leroy said, ‘You should join my beet club!’”

DIY Item: A white T-shirt with Sharpie drawings of shapes and birds created by friend and artist Alicia Cosnahan.

Ironic Footwear: Low-top black Chuck Taylor Converses he has worn every day for six months

Brush-Off: “It took me five minutes.”

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Comments

1. Nitya August 27th, 2006
   9:44 pm
   #1

   Khalid: You are so cool and ironic.
   Heart the footwear. Heart the hat. Heart the hipster.

2. Anonymous August 28th, 2006
   1:28 am
   #2

   Hipsters are the new yuppies.

3. Anonymous August 30th, 2006
   2:25 pm
   #3

   Khalid is so hot right now

4. Anonymous August 30th, 2006
   2:40 pm
   #4

   How does Khalid fit in those jeans,

   Sexy, dead sexy.

5. Anonymous August 30th, 2006
   2:49 pm
   #5

   If loving beets is wrong I don’t want to be right!

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