Acid-tongued style critic Gavin McInnes would no doubt have plenty of mean things to say if he ever made it down to Comic-Con International to eyeball the cavalcade of unchic geeks roaming around San Diego.
As it is, McInnes' new book of snarkily captioned photographs, Street Boners: 1,764 Hipster Fashion Jokes, confines its mockery mainly to would-be trend-setters whose claim to coolness is undermined by unfortunate wardrobe choices.
McInnes, a former punk rock musician, began snapping photos of London clubgoers in 1994 when he co-founded Vice magazine. Now he posts wittily critiqued snapshots of unnamed subjects on his Streeet Carnage website.
In Street Boners, McInnes champions moustaches, thick-framed glasses and Chuck Taylors for men but hates flip-flops, umbrellas, shaved heads, wool hats, goatees – Tom Green excepted – and cargo shorts. For women, McInnes discourages anyone older than 25 from wearing pigtails.
Though McInnes ranks each subject's fashion offenses on a scale of one to 10, attractive women generally grab high scores whether they're poorly dressed or not.
In the book's introduction, McInnes puts his critiques in perspective:
Street Boners (Grand Central Publishing/Hatchette Book Group) sells for $19.
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