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Friday, October 28, 2005

Bracelets

[updated]
A halfway decent story I like to take credit for: I was at Ann & Hope when I saw bracelets that looked EXACTLY like Livestrong bracelets. But they had nothing to do with Lance Armstrong; they were imitators. "Livestrong" surely is a copyrighted item.

Can we say PACKAGE?

So I've been on a silicone bracelet kick for a while. Just curious about them. I've got on my kitchen table the following to choose from as I put my outfits together in the morning:

+ royal blue with stars and red and white stripes, for SaluteHeroes.org -- somebody at work got it as a giveaway and gave it to me 'cause he's not into the fad
+ a more chroma-like blue with stars and red and white stripes, reading "Support Our Heroes" from some television station
+ "No Excuse for Abuse" in purple, given away free by a domestic violence group
+ "High Maintenance" in a funky multi-color that I bought at a store on Federal Hill
+ A red "Hope," which I was given for contributing to the National MS Society
+ A red-and-blue Red Sox bracelet, that came in a pack of three -- the other two I gave to co-workers who were kinda into bracelets... or maybe I just saw them with bracelets on
+ A light blue "Out in Love", a free giveaway from outinlove.com at Providence Pride this year
+ A Pride bracelet, rainbow-colored, bought at either Providence or Boston Pride this summer (Diversitybands.com) (I wore this to the Labor Day family reunion and a distant cousin -- a little younger than me -- asked me about it and I couldn't bring myself to say, "It's Gay Pride. I'm GAY, dear." I think I just said I got it at a Pride festival. And I think she said "Oh!" in a sort of knowing way.)

little_lost_robot has this dish about the bracelets.

Now, somewhere on the net I saw that Archie McPhee has brought out their own bracelets.

Bleak Wristbands
Seven Deadly Sins Wristbands


Hilarious. Read them!

Now, I know, there's a lot to be said about the statement of support for a charity, that turned into a statement of fashion... I don't know if I'm going to say any of it here though.

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