Good news for those Georgetown students who want to rock a pair of shiny gold lamé leggings: American Apparel is opening a new store on M Street.

Best known for T-shirts and hoodies – as well as their opinions on immigration – American Apparel also offers a wide array comfy pants, dresses and sweaters that fit perfectly into any hipster’s wardrobe. As of now, they’ve only given us a tantalizing “Coming Soon” sign in the window, but you should prepare for more Hoyas going skintight when the store opens at 3025 M.

If you’re sticking with Metro in a tough week, and you want everyone to know it, their gift shop makes it easy. The Metro online store is so detailed, it suggests a subway subculture we’re not even dimly aware of.

Now that rain is the precipitation du jour, you’ll want to consider the Metrobrella. The Metrobrella’s an umbrella with the subway map on it. It’d be hard to read the map folded up, and you wouldn’t want to open it indoors, but that’s all right. In a Metro train you’re underground, so you operate by Morlock rules, and Morlock rules say opening an umbrella indoors is good luck.

There’s also expensive stationery with a picture of the Dupont Circle station, and silver-plated subway token cufflinks. These are nice, but the Metro Store is just making sure you don’t get the awesome bends when you hit the station gear.

The Metro Store lets you pick your favorite station and get T-shirts, coffee mugs, or a mousepad with the station’s name and line color. Soon, everyone will know you use Rosslyn and walk across the Key Bridge for laughs. Remember when Ruben Studdard was on American Idol and wore his town’s area code on shirts? I’m not saying you’ll definitely be more popular than him, but I am saying it’s about time someone updated “Sorry” for 2007.
-Will Sommer