"We were paid to make it look cool and make it fun for everyone".
Soapy, overly sweet; they've sacrificed taste to make it look cool.
"He wears it and makes it look cool," Ms. Bailey said of Jay-Z and the cap.
To which Alli Petheriotis, 14, who has never even heard of Robin Hood, would add: "She made it look cool.
Part of the answer is that, like an ageing rocker, it hopes being associated with younger stars will make it look cool again.
Chung has always used her resemblance to a young Jean Shrimpton as a counterpoint to wearing really boring clothes – the implication being if you look like that, you can wear dowdy and make it look cool.
"I wonder if they couldn't have taken more from what they had and re-energized it to make it look cool, like the Juicy Fruit model and Hershey's model," said Mr. Carbone, referring to the gum brand and chocolate bar that have tweaked their looks over the years but not metamorphosed.
"The big frustration of my customers is that [the ban] removed things that were kind of fun and made it look cool, but didn't affect how the gun operated," said Sean Wontor, a salesman who heaved two rifles onto the counter of Sportsman's Warehouse here in Meridian to make his point.
If there is any irony in the new "new dressing," it is how someone like Miuccia Prada or, for that matter, Mr. Adrover, can take a formerly frumpy style like an A-line skirt or a classic town coat and make it look cool and young, while designers known for ladylike clothes haven't completely broken out of the old formulas.
We just need to make it look cool.
