Seeing as the "Kuffiya Kraze" has become a "hot topic" on KABOBfest, I suppose that it's only fitting Hot Topic starts selling them...
Oh, you don't know what Hot Topic is? It's that really hip anti-hipster store in all the major malls that commercializes Goth to the point where high school freaks have begun wearing ordinary people clothes just to stand out.
Oh, and Hot Topic has, by far, the most intriguing description of the kuffiya yet:
This white scarf features green various sized stripes.Woah! So THAT'S what it's all about!! To think, all this time I thought it carried some sort of cultural and/or political significance. Silly me... it just has "varioius sized stripes."
Seriously, I had no idea that when my grandfather gave me the red n' white kuffiya he wore while serving in the Jordanian military sixty-eight years ago that he was actually asking me to go Goth! Hell, I think I'll end this post early and go paint my fingernails black or something...
[Tarboush Tip: Nabeel]
---EDITOR'S NOTE---
Pssst! Nadeem and other KABOBers: please refer to the KABOBstyle Guide when referencing the contested spellings of the keffiyah. Or keffiyeh. Or kuffiyah. I mean, kufiya. Wait -- hatta. Or sometimes shemagh. And often Osama. And most recently, Obama.
According to the KABOBstyle Guide: spell it a bunch of different ways in each post to increase search engine returns!
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Goth? GOTH? doooode, that is soooo 90s ...this emo ;)
I think your text in my response to my telling you of this is priceless: "It's oh so goth! In fact, Dracula use to wear one! You didn't know?"
Eternal El Oh Els soon followed.
I can only dream I too will one day be as cool as this zig-zaggy devil-locked pierced up wanna-be but not quite arab. Thanks for the tarboush tip.
~ [Nabeel]
Is that the NABEEL? The one whose name graces the "About Us" page? The ancient relic of KF's distant past?
It's Nadeem's Nabeel - the other Nabeel is hiding in the back-room of some undisclosed Taco Bell huffing glue and giggling at the Haaretz articles he's reading off his iphone.
Another pic of the teal monstrosity.
Well, at least we Jews still have our Magen David.
Or we did, until Madonna decided to paint it on some dude's belly.
You mean the gutra? I remember going to hot topic in the early 90's I think it was.
It was one of the few places you could get Doc Martins without having to order them through the mail.
As a vetern of the early 1980s American/European punk scene I wont get into talking about how lame the store now is, or how lame the whole punk rock scene is.
Anyway, I knew punks in Europe who wore the gutra back in the 1980s and 1990s, mostly associated with leftist movements and groups.
Now my daughter of 15 likes going into the store, and she is about as far from punk/goth as you can get.
Did you see this kufiyah inspired video?
http://gawker.com/index.php?refId=5001692
Gawker has its own running kufiyah debate.
As I recall, Joe Strummer (R.I.P.) singer for legendary Punk band, The Clash, use to wear the Kuffiyeh alot in the 1980s and even later into his career in the 1990s. Of course, he wasn't a hipster (even though his music certainly attracted them). He was probably one of the few celebrities who knew what it meant and wore it in support of those who originated it.
~ Nadeem's [nabeel]
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