Fashion Posted Fri, 28 Nov 2008

At Kinokuyina in New York, I noticed that Playboy was sorted into the "Men's Fashion" section of the magazine rack.

Funny. I wasn't under the impression that Playboy's primary selling points included either either men or clothing.

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I thought it was fashionable for men to 'read the articles' in Playboy.
Posted by chuck at Fri Nov 28 22:37:41 2008
Well, it is directed at men, and the interest is in what the people are wearing... or not wearing... OK, yeah, still a stretch.
Posted by kat at Fri Nov 28 22:54:17 2008
Yeah, I was a bit surprised when I noticed men's fashion in the playboy store in London ;p
Posted by Runa at Sat Nov 29 02:20:37 2008
You have to read the articles. ;)
Posted by Schuyler at Sat Nov 29 14:21:34 2008
Actually, Playboy is in large part a men's fashion magazine. It has nude photos, often-bawdy cartoons, advice columns (on matters sexual and sartorial), political essays, short stories, interviews, etc, and quite a bit of GQ-style fashion layout stuff.

It's up to each reader to notice or not notice each of those things ;) But it's really not a bad call, in categorizing magazines, IMO.

timothy
Posted by T. Lord at Sat Nov 29 21:37:02 2008
Just lovely...
Posted by Paora at Tue Dec 2 20:01:07 2008

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