http://www.businessoffashion.com/2013/05/from-brooklyn-to-mumbai-to-london-bespoke-tailoring-shows-signs-of-growth.html
Jason Jules talks about the 'cashless society' on and off. Which doesn't mean that you're broke, you just use various cards instead.
The American elder rant that it was always those damned kids in hoodies and baggy jeans ruining the country's civility need to examine the Boomer penchant for being slobs. Most judgmental generation we ever produced and yet they never could see their myriad faults.
The Rake is plugging designer hoodies (freebies?) - http://therakeonline.com/atelier-luxury-designer-brands-artisans/the-hood-project-from-lestrange/.