did i detect a fashion challenge? EUROHIP is more pirate-y than blue collar?? them's big words, and you're asking to throw down against a heavyweight. Thar's mutiny afoot cap'n. damn it's hard to type with fake nails.
Are you suggesting that a Cape Ann longliner, with his greasy hat, old sweatshirt with the sleeves ripped off that reads 'Fish'n'Yolks- Barb's Breakfast Barn', and rubber waders studded with REAL barnacles- should be watching his back against some foppy tribe of international metrosexuals? No offense my Swedish brethren- the metrosexual and eurotrash are ubiquitous o'er all the seven seas. The only context in which this would, ahem, hold water, is if we were talking about different kinds of pirates.
To my mind there are really only two pirate species. The Pirates of Penzance pirates: orlando bloom in black leather whistling 'I'm a genie in a bottle, Baby' crossed with the soulful kevin costner in 'Prince of Thieves'; and the ones who were breastfed cod brine, whose first tricycles were whittled from casks of rum, and who always leave the ship when it starts smoking.
What kind of gang are we??? We are the gang that eats a little costner for breakfast with our fish yolks! We are the gang that shaves with busted tin cans! We hustle Craps, break the bottles on the bar, and leave a broiling black wake of shredded metro behind our worthy vessels. No prancing fairy with a headful of Sumotech is going to have our backs when the shit goes bananas!
It is clear to me what class of brigands follow our flag. And our Fashion is our symbolism, a common code, and representative of our rejection of the status quo. I see the Gloucesterman as a compatriot and fashion Equal, heroic in their flippant style-slashing in anhistoric samples of mainstream cotton, a source of authentic originality, and perhaps someone with whom to share the secret gang hand signal. Their clothes, like ours, have a story to tell, and as the woman said, "Vogue".