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If it looks good on the street, why not wear it? Many features of menswear (more so than for women?), come from some practical use that is now defunct. High boots were the norm for dozens of generations of men because they were hopping on and off horses all day. With very few exceptions, no one does that anymore. So we are to abandon the style as it might give those few remaining lucky riders an insider smirk? It still looks good and makes for a pretty dashing presentation for the guy with enough stones to do it. How many men actually need to wear those big clunky work boots? They wear them because they look good and are a link with the masculine ideal they have in mind for themselves.
There's no practical reason for button fly trousers, braces, laced shoes (we have velcro now). I don't understand why these kinds of judgments get made.
A fellow in cowboy boots looks disapprovingly at the guy in field boots. The guy in the Maine Hunting Shoes shakes his head at the dude in cowboy boots. The man in the homburg is disdainful of the guy in the ball cap. Kids in too-large jeans with their butt crack displayed think a guy in a business suit must be gay. Yesterday was Darwin's birthday. Isn't it a frightful let-down to see that he was wrong and we are not, in fact, evolving?
I'm going to wear what boosts my own fragile opinion of myself, and the casual observer's opinion matters little.
There's no practical reason for button fly trousers, braces, laced shoes (we have velcro now). I don't understand why these kinds of judgments get made.
A fellow in cowboy boots looks disapprovingly at the guy in field boots. The guy in the Maine Hunting Shoes shakes his head at the dude in cowboy boots. The man in the homburg is disdainful of the guy in the ball cap. Kids in too-large jeans with their butt crack displayed think a guy in a business suit must be gay. Yesterday was Darwin's birthday. Isn't it a frightful let-down to see that he was wrong and we are not, in fact, evolving?
I'm going to wear what boosts my own fragile opinion of myself, and the casual observer's opinion matters little.