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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Clothing as self-expression
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Date: Sat, 24-Aug-85 16:38:56 EDT
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> I don't spend a lot more time dressing in the morning that if I wore
> t-shirts and jeans to work.  I don't wear them to work because I
> don't feel *comfortable* wearing them to work.  And I refuse to
> accept that because someone feels comfortable in t-shirts and jeans
> at work and I don't that that person is somehow morally superior to
> me.

This is a perplexing line of reasoning; certainly it was not what I meant.
Someone who made judgements of someone's moral nature based on their wearing
jeans and a T-shirt would be doing exactly the same thing which it has been
asserted is done WRT people who dress "better" than that, i.e., judging
something about their inner natures by what they wear; and that would be
hypocritical.

My comment (or perhaps complaint) was more about people who do dress a
certain way to "say" something about themselves.  To me, this is not much
different from people who wear T-shirts with statements of their personal
opinions on them (I mean by this strong, "trendy" statements; indeed, I
myself have a vast assortment of T-shirts that do contain some message;
e.g., this one I am wearing now, which says "USA 1984" on it.  This has no
real message, other than that it is not anti-American.  I compare this to
my "yuppie" neighbors, who always wear clothing (and leave a visor
"carelessly" tossed in the back window of their sports car) with the name
of a prestigious Florida golf resort on it.) The worst of these are those
that say "BABY" on them and have an arrow pointing down; though I have
always thought that perhaps the people were worried others would think they
were fat.

Actually I do think you should dress in a way that expresses yourself in
a certain manner; the issue is just one of what you are expressing.  For
example, I will never wear purple, black, or color combinations with extreme
tonal contrasts.  Nor will I wear things I feel are injurious to my health;
which includes the designer jeans mentioned before, and the type of men's
dress shoes that were popular a couple of years ago.  This is the fundamental
point I am making; this is where I would draw the line.  This latter saddens
me especially about the current trends of fashion.
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