The new movie based on the Christopher Buckley book, Thank You for Not Smoking, helps to sum up one of its characters by putting him in a pair of Birkenstocks.
The New York Times observes:
Though real Birkenstock wearers may come in all political persuasions, using the sandal to represent the pushier side of liberalism is a long-running joke. As it turns out, Birkenstock doesn't mind at all.
"He's wearing the Vermont costume," Scott Radcliffe, the marketing director at Birkenstock Distribution USA, said of Mr. Macy's character. Mr. Radcliffe said that the "Birkenstock-wearing, granola-crunching, Volvo-driving fill-in-the blank stereotype" emerged in the broader culture without any doing on the company's part. The company finds it entertaining, he said, that the sandals have reached the kind of status that qualifies them for movie close-ups, even disparaging ones.
The rest is here.
But what if someone is a Crunchy Con?
[Hat tip: www.althouse.blogspot.com ]
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