Promoting American cultural hegemony, a primary tenet of which is that everyone must dress as slovenly as possible... In Catholic school I was taught that dressing like a bum, unless you are one, and even then you should were your best clothes, if you have any, is a signifier of disrespect for God, who created us, and why can't we return the favor by wearing something that compliments our beautiful human form? I don't know about the God bit, but I agree with the rest. Is there not a connection between our outward appearance and human dignity?
In Catholic school I was taught that dressing like a bum, unless you are one, and even then you should were your best clothes, if you have any, is a signifier of disrespect for God, who created us, and why can't we return the favor by wearing something that compliments our beautiful human form? I don't know about the God bit, but I agree with the rest. Is there not a connection between our outward appearance and human dignity?
George Will on April 16, 2009:
Denim is the carefully calculated costume of people eager to communicate indifference to appearances. But the appearances that people choose to present in public are cues from which we make inferences about their maturity and respect for those to whom they are presenting themselves.
I feel I project a very serious image in a black turtleneck and jeans. Especially if I am smoking and wearing sunglasses.
Add a purple or black beret and you'd be a Hep Cat®, circa 5 BE (Beatnik Era.)
I've been dressing like a beatnik since I was 12. "Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms." -Dostoevsky
If so, was that pancakes you could believe in?
Jack Kerouac, On The Road, 1957 Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
Now that was George Will, what about poemless? *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Thanks.
Anyone else? OMG, I feel like a little girl, playing dressup with ETers, instead of dolls. Creepy. "Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms." -Dostoevsky
but they don't get flabby cheek either, so it breaks even... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
This, coming from a guy who dresses like an Englishman in his pajamas (striped-everything), is pretty rich. Two plain, one fancy, or you've no right to lecture people on fashion. You're also one of, sadly, many who apparently don't understand that no one with a head so large should ever wear a straight collar. You look like Mr Met, for fuck's sake. Buy some proper spread collars.
And when you're not doing all that, you're wearing a bow tie -- something that should only be worn by circus clowns and children below the age of six.
Regards,
Drew J Jones Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
But I was actually making a totally different argument. I was arguing that one should dress well, and by well, I mean in ways that flatter and accentuate and celebrate one's beauty, inner and outer, for oneself, in order to assert one's inherent human dignity. I was not arguing that you should dress to impress others, to impress George Will, for example, or to assert your maturity or responsibility, which are subjectively measured by the very structures that wish to strip you of your dignity so as to make you a more functional cog in the machine. Maturity and Responsibility are the stuff of well-oiled cogs, my friend. Jeans, denims tends to catch and tear on the machinery. Slows it down and lowers productivity. And THEY don't want that. So, listen to me. Carefully. WEAR JEANS! Not the baggy stone-washed kind or the kind that pushes your belly fat to the wrong places. Wear sexy well-made jeans. And wear them with nice shoes.
And never, Ever, compare me to George Will again.
:D "Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms." -Dostoevsky
I'm saying Will ripped off your argument and with such a derivative, it is shallow compared to your original brilliance. He turned it into a grumpy old man version, not a call for sophistication and counterculture.
And no, Will is not brilliant. In fact, I think he's a turd and he should have stuck to writing about baseball and even that writing was lame.
