Pink Too Tight, Pink Too Plain on Episode 2 of Apprentice: Los Angeles
Pink Too Tight, Pink Too Plain on Episode 2 of Apprentice: Los Angeles by Roxanne McDonald
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So pink is “the new black.” But it doesn’t work, says The Donald, for men’s swimwear! |
In episode 2 of “The Apprentice: Los Angeles,” Tina Turk hosted a Santa Monica Beach boardwalk fashion show, featuring the swimwear designed by the two teams, Kinetic, with the ongoing PM Heidi and Arrow, with the new PM, Nicole.
Showing her gutsy side (which is reinforced by her gravelly, leftover laryngitis voice), Nicole confirms for her team how the next 30 hours of tasking will be what she promises them to be: 30 hours of pain…but worth it.
And she keeps her promise…. Maybe too well. The pain comes (again) for Arrow when well-intended and enthusiastic about designing Carey creates a pink paisley bathing suit for [gay] men. His teammates, mortified, cannot convince him that the piece is too tight, too pink, and too unmanly (or TOO manly, what with all the “information” it reveals).
The dinky pinky does not fit in with the rest of the collection, which is of a “retro reminiscent” style and other adjectival hip-ness; it does not go over well with buyers (who spend only 350 bucks total on Arrow’s men’s swimwear, anyway); and is, according to judges of the fashion show and their little judge cards, “unwearable”.
Worse, while Donald says he has a great body and only he and Carey could pull it off on a public beach, the piece is ridiculous.
Pink may be the new black, but if any of those doinks had thought about it, they would recall that men don’t wear pink that close to their manliness as pink is psychologically a “weak” color. (Just ask any male mate who has had his workout clothes washed with something red: they will
refuse to wear the now pinked items to the gym.)
The pain comes for Kinetic by way of minor bickering over aesthetic differences, Heidi and others thinking such choices as a ho-hum pink bikini will be too plain to win. But with Arrow selling 19,616 dollars worth of swimwear and their selling 20-thousand something (couldn’t hear over screams the exact total), Kinetic reigns for the second week in a row.
Now, I mentioned this momentum problem before. You live in a tent. You lose a competition. You might likely lose the next. It’s kind of, just kind of like being homeless and trying to get a job. You are without the necessary luxuries of, oh, running water, electricity, healthy sleep habits. And you have to look as if you have it all.
Granted, in the case of homeless persons, the conditions are obviously much worse—and without a phone or actual physical address you can’t get returns on your queries. But in the case of previously well-off individuals (none of whom started the game starving or weathered or broke I bet), the degradation of living in tents must be wearing…. Even if, or especially when, Kinetic is sleeping in the pink. Again.
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Hmmm… interesting about the homeless apects you mentioned… you still need to project you are a winner to get the job, but th efact is you are a loser with no proper sewage… interesting twist on things.
Comment by webmaster — January 17, 2007 @ 4:20 pm