We talk about celebrity style and pop culture here, but hat for the summer it is next level in Korea. The internet and social makes the whole world accessible, so now there is a broader audience or really a global audience watching. As for what makes Korean fashion so different, the pace at which its consumers absorb the latest products is faster than you can say  trend. Right now, there s a heavy focus on easy-to-wear pieces and streetwear that s been made popular by the country s burgeoning entertainment industry and its bevy of stylish stars.

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 The Specialist s Hat has become a touchstone for a number of overlapping literary movements (magic realism, slipstream, interstitial, metafiction, fabulation, weird fiction), and there is good reason for this. It infuses tropes drawn from ushanka hat Gothic tales such as Horace Walpole s Castle of Otranto or ghost stories such as M. R. James s classic  Oh, Whistle and I ll Come to You, My Lad with a playfully postmodern sensibility. The story has a peculiar lightness to it, as it weaves together children s games, fairy tales, oral histories, and snatches of poetry whose deliberate awfulness amuses us even as it unsettles us.

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