Miss Neecerie
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This thread is not about clothes at all.
Clothes, are fashion. Fashion changes and morphs over time. What is popular today was not popular in the 70's...or the 1870's for that matter.
Sadly, what this thread is about is applying -one arbitrary standard- to people other then ourselves, and finding out that everyone else fails but some mythical -us-.
Have standards for how you want to look. That is following a fashion just as much as someone who wears a different sort of clothing, one that perhaps we don't see the -value- in. Trust me, most of the rest of the populace sees -no value- in how 'we' dress either.
If the Golden Era was so spectacular for fashion and all the older folks thought so, then why is every granny I see....in a cotton pantsuit? And most granddads are in khakis and a loose shirt?
If the people who -had- to wear the things we revere as 'the pinnacle of fashion' have no use for them, we are wearing 'just as much a contrived costume' as the stars people keep posting.
We are free to wear what we want, as are they.
We are free to judge them for that, as they are free to judge us. But by literally 'assuming that anyone who does not share the same fashion value as we do' is somehow 'sloppy, substandard, a criminal.....'
I personally find the greatest joy in encountering and getting to know people 'not like me'....turns out, they are usually wonderful people and by setting them aside...you only shortchange yourself.
Clothes, are fashion. Fashion changes and morphs over time. What is popular today was not popular in the 70's...or the 1870's for that matter.
Sadly, what this thread is about is applying -one arbitrary standard- to people other then ourselves, and finding out that everyone else fails but some mythical -us-.
Have standards for how you want to look. That is following a fashion just as much as someone who wears a different sort of clothing, one that perhaps we don't see the -value- in. Trust me, most of the rest of the populace sees -no value- in how 'we' dress either.
If the Golden Era was so spectacular for fashion and all the older folks thought so, then why is every granny I see....in a cotton pantsuit? And most granddads are in khakis and a loose shirt?
If the people who -had- to wear the things we revere as 'the pinnacle of fashion' have no use for them, we are wearing 'just as much a contrived costume' as the stars people keep posting.
We are free to wear what we want, as are they.
We are free to judge them for that, as they are free to judge us. But by literally 'assuming that anyone who does not share the same fashion value as we do' is somehow 'sloppy, substandard, a criminal.....'
I personally find the greatest joy in encountering and getting to know people 'not like me'....turns out, they are usually wonderful people and by setting them aside...you only shortchange yourself.
