Fashion Failures That Have Us Suffering From Second-Hand Embarrassment

Depending on the zipper’s mood, this hoodie is going to be somewhere between a passionate inspiration and a troublingly ambiguous statement. With the zip-up, one stands as a bastion of compassion, a veritable knight in cotton armor for the animal kingdom.

But with the hood down, the narrative has taken an Orwellian turn—a ‘club’ we could only hope doesn’t come with a membership fee. A sartorial Rorschach test: what you see depends largely on the hood and our own personal optimism for humanity’s capacity to figure out context clues.