PEPE // Paolo Woods
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In the Port-au-Prince’s Fifth Avenue market, located in the former slave market, women receive full containers of second-hand clothing imported from the United-States. The women call them “pèpè” and it is difficult today to see a garment in Haiti that has not initially been worn by an American. Most of these “pèpè” exported back on the island have been refused by secondhand retail chains and transit via American-Haitian sorting plants in Miami.
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The worst redneck t-shirts, those that no one would even dare sell
to tourists on Time Square, those with the most obscene slogans,
reappear through the miracle of free trade in the island’s most
remote provinces. Something of the globalization is at play here,
in this coming and going of togs.
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