Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site peora.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!cord!pierce!bentley!ihnp1!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!petsd!peora!jer From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Clothing as self-expression Message-ID: <1525@peora.UUCP> Date: Sat, 24-Aug-85 16:38:56 EDT Article-I.D.: peora.1525 Posted: Sat Aug 24 16:38:56 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 26-Aug-85 01:08:41 EDT References: <1050@mtgzz.UUCP> <1500@peora.UUCP> <5625@tektronix.UUCP> Organization: Perkin-Elmer SDC, Orlando, Fl. Lines: 43 > 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. -- Shyy-Anzr: J. Eric Roskos UUCP: ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!peora!jer US Mail: MS 795; Perkin-Elmer SDC; 2486 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, FL 32809-7642 "Zbba Cvr!"