Percy Lee, a Jamaican entrepreneur, was featured recently in Advanced Style, a blog that highlights the personal style of senior citizens: you have got to check out his black and white pin-dot tuxedo with red accents – it’s hot!
On a different note, the blog author(s) described Percy as “half-Chinese, half-Jamaican”. This seems to be one of those cases (and I am willing to give the benefit of the doubt here) where “Jamaican” is used as if it’s a racial descriptor. In this case, it’s not entirely obvious, but I have several times come across articles where it is said about someone that one parent is white and the other Jamaican (I can’t recall having seen this with Caribbean nationalities other than Jamaican, interestingly enough), and it always bothers me a bit, because the assumption involved is that Jamaican≡black, which of course it doesn’t.
Thanks for that link T – very interesting. I must admit I thought the men featured more had more interesting style than most of the women.
Wendy · July 20, 2009