When Scene gave Clothing Brigade “Best $50 T-shirts” in the 2007 Best of Cleveland issue, the Warehouse District/Coventry hipster clothing boutique received it like a cake made from puggle crap. Turns out, they got other stuff too — t-shirts that cost slightly less than $50, jeans, shoes, jackets, all the usual suspects of clothing stores. And they were none too pleased to be noted only for high-brow t-shirts priced like they’re made from spun gold and decorated with caviar splotches. …
This article appears in Jan 16-22, 2008.