5 Profiles of the day
Hey folks,
So I’m launching a little mini experiment wherein I ‘profile’ 5 people on the subway. This just means that I’m going to look at them, ask little questions to myself and answer them, and then describe them here for you. I’m most interested in brands, what books they’re reading, what clothes they’re wearing, and how nervous or uncomfortable they are when I stare at them for 5 minutes.
kidding. I’m discreet. OR AM I????
1) This man has dark stubble and a broad face, sort of like a preppy Jason Statham, but he’s reading a girly-looking book by an author of Jessica Shattuck. Upon arriving at my office, I look up Shattuck - apparently she has written a book called The Hazards of Good Breeding, about a high-society family. Hm.
2) Girl to my right may not be wearing pants. She has white tights and some big loose blue shirt on, belted. Dark hair, face that narrows to a point at the chin. She looks half-Asian. She looks familiar.
3) Behind me, a girl reading “The _[I forget]_ of Bliss,” a Marc Jacobs jacket folded over her arm, a smallish silver Brooklyn industries bag hanging from her shoulder.
4) My eyes follow the floor to the shoes of the skinny guy with the tattoos, sitting next to the rogue-ish prepster. His shoes. Are those loafers that boaters wear. What are those called? Boat loafers? He is wearing boat loafers, which leads me to realize that he is both immaculate and greasy. With blue jeans, a white tee shirt, and tattoos that include a smoking pipe and a man that looks like Hillary Clinton, thin nose, obvious cheekbones, and perfectly curved side bangs, he looks like a more relaxed version of Chris Corner, the lead singer of IAMX.
5) I’m missing a 5th. My eye goes straight to the orange-haired man wearing a yarmulke and a trenchcoat, reading the gossip page in the Metro. He’s carrying a red and black lunchbag.
