American Apparel hoodies and leotards: what's not to luuuuurve, right? Well, thanks to a Jezebel tipster, we've just read former New Yorker writer and onetime temporary Nebraskan Meghan Daum's gimlet-eyed cultural analysis of the company's advertising, and are now in the process of digesting a shocking fact: it is all carefully manipulated to appear "less than legal." Dare she say pornographic? She doesn't know! The whole thing makes her feel like a prudish old fuddy-duddy. Here, she'll try to explain what bothers her about the models: "Imagine them wearing facial expressions that suggest someone has just kicked the door down and caught them carving ska lyrics into their forearms with Exacto knives." Um, Meghan, take it from Liza Minelli: kids today are way too fucked for you to understand, but a decent summer T looks good on almost everyone. [LA Times]