Your ‘Props’ Had the Better Clothes

There was one shirt in your Men’s Fall Fashion Issue that I liked: a beige pullover with black-and-white horizontal bands (“The Peacoats Are Coming!” Sept. 4). However, when I went to read the caption at the bottom of the photo, it was nowhere to be found. Then I realized why: It was worn by a Latino worker who was near two other Latino workers and behind the three white models.

I wish you hadn’t presented these workers as invisible props. It appears to be fairly racist when you segregate men based on color in a photo shoot, and then provide no attribution to one class. And I’d still like to know who made that shirt.

Denis Cagna

Los Angeles

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Get real! After pages of pictures of sullen young men in ridiculously expensive fall fashions, the only thing my family and I could relate to was the ad for Goodwill on Page 41.

Ruth Needle

Santa Monica