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What are salmon pants, you ask?

To be literal, they’re the pink trousers outfitted on visitors and residents of places like the Hamptons, the Vineyard, and Newport.

They’re hideous, but you can see that.

Metaphorically speaking, they’re an unadulterated example of the taste retardation that develops in young urban professionals frequenting seaside weekend getaways.

Scientists haven’t yet proven why we yuppies enjoy salmon pants.  Several have theorized it’s the sea salt.  Others see it as nasty side effect of graduate degrees.

Whatever the cause, they’re funny and we yuppies like them.  We like a lot of other things that remain out of the mainstream too.

This blog is devoted to all things yuppie.   Send us your videos, photos, commentary, and articles devoted to our precious yuppie excess to salmonpants@tumblr.com, and we’ll post them on this tumblog.

Over and out,

Captain McWhalebelt

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