Re:The Influence of Neuromancer on Cyberpunk
by orev on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @07:34PM
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> next to a display of Tommy Hilfiger, it's all started to go sideways … Some people ingest a single peanut and their head swells like a basketball. … Tommy Hilfiger does it every time … A mountainside of Tommy coming down in her head
This is about an unexpected encounter with these clothes (not wearing them), and it doesn’t sound good to me.
Re:The Influence of Neuromancer on Cyberpunk
by aspenmayer on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @11:07PM
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You’re right, of course, that she’s reacting negatively. Do you have a quote describing her attire choices? I think the book does go into more detail on the nature of her condition(s) when it describes what she wears and why she chooses to dress thus.
Tommy Hilfiger clothing was considered kinda prep style, but got appropriated by street style and a lot of rappers would wear it in the 90s up til Tommy outed himself as a racist, by publicly saying that he didn’t want black people wearing his clothes, as he thought it brought down the value of the brand, or some such racist drivel.
That is to say, I am curious what style or aesthetic she’s recoiling against. To me, it seems like she’s vaguely working class attired, and recoils against professional costumes.
I remember this a bit differently? I thought she wore nondescript de-branded clothing specifically because she had a behavioral/neurological/information processing/sensory overload condition that caused her to have tics and flip out in the presence of excessive visual input. I remember her intentionally choosing this clothing, as it jumped out at me. And I thought she wore Levi’s, not that it matters, though they do have minimal brand motifs compared to some brands.
I didn’t finish the book, and it has been a while, so I could well be mistaken or outright wrong. I don’t remember TH being mentioned specifically.