To Sunday's postgame news conference Lin wore an oversized, untucked gray shirt, baggy jeans, and sneakers.

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Every ostentatious symbol of teenagehood is on display: Puma, Adidas, Nike, Quiksilver, baggy jeans, hooded tops.

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He was wearing a light grey V-neck woollen jumper with a white T-shirt underneath, black baggy jeans and dark shoes.

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Wealthy white teen-agers in baggy jeans and laceless shoes and multiple tattoos show, unconsciously, the reality of incarceration that acts as a hidden foundation for the country.

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Gilliam, a community organizer, is also partial to baggy jeans and Kangol caps and looks less like the leader of the free world than the latest signing of Def Jam Records.

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But Steve, your persistence of the black mock turtleneck and baggy Levi's 501 jeans uniform is disconcerting.

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"I was afraid it would be bad for business that Morsi won, " said Ms. Matta, sporting half a shaved head, torn jeans, and a baggy T-shirt that read: 'In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

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The workers spanned several generations, from mustached grandfathers in baggy pants, with cigarettes clenched in the corners of their mouths, to jeans-wearing youths with fabulous hair.

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