if you don't smile you'll never get a husband
I've been thinking maybe I need to make more of an effort to dress better. I'm not a complete slob, but I definitely dress down. Jeans and a t-shirt to work every day. Maybe a polartec. A pair of hiking shoes I wear everywhere. I spent this past weekend with my two most fastidious, best-dressed friends, and they made me feel kind of dopey.
The thing is, guys basically have one option: a dress shirt. And I think dress shirts look ridiculous on me. But today I decided to take a chance and wore a nice, dark blue dress shirt from Banana Republic to work and even put on a belt and wore black shoes. I got three compliments from my coworkers. Compliments on how I looked just because I put that monkey suit on. Does it really make that much of a difference? I wish I understood better what the point is. Some people really FEEL fashion. I'm like, fashion-autistic.
I figure I'll just take everyone's word for it. Even if I think I look like an ass, if everyone else says YOU LOOK FABULOUS! then I guess I'll go with it. Maybe I can convince one of my fastidious friends to take me out shopping. Then again, I'd feel less self-conscious about masturbating into a cup at the doctor's office than I would shopping with someone.
posted by mrhappypants @ 9:55 PM
7 comments
7 Comments:
I guess I have to say my choice would be to go shopping (and that's asking a lot from me) rather that wanking into a cup for the Doctor. Eeewwwhhhh!
Do you like when women dress nicely?
I hope you didn't just use polartec as a common noun. If so, please, please don't do it again. The phrase"an article of outerwear manufactured by polartec industries" sounds so much better. But even a piece of greasy outerwear manufacured by polartec industries is not fashion neutral. It's unfair, but fashion is a language in which it is impossible to say "no comment." I shudder to think what those hiking shoes loudly proclaim in an urban patois that i wouldn't pretend to understand. Slip out an get a nice pair of understated Kenneth Coles. They say simply "i've not entirely oblivious and i've probably got a decent job. wanna fuck?" That's probably about the least you can get by with saying.
Dad?
"If you don't smile you'll never get a husband"-- did your mom tell you this when you were growing up, Ms. Happypants?
I remember when plane travel was a very rare event. We would always dress up in our best clothes before traveling. I also have a very distinct memory of my mom coming to my grade school to have lunch with me one day-- she asked me what I would like her to wear. I told her to wear her snazzy yellow suit.
What's the point? part of the slobbiness that's consumed fashion the past 30 years or so must have something to do with the decline in interest in public culture. Too many people seem to shuttle their fat selves back and forth between the couch at home and the desk at work and back again, with little interest at all in participating in public or civic life. Remember when men used to wear hats in public? I don't advocate a return to that, but to more of an awareness of the "presentation of the self" in public life and what it means to care about such things. Dressing nice is part of it.
Plus, men who care about their appearance have a much higher hotness quotient than those who don't, or than those who just look like everyone else and wear sneakers and tshirts.
rant :: I hate the shorts, t-shirt and white sneakers look sooooo much. And all the boys in my class dress exactly the same: tshirt, khakis, backwards baseball cap. They all look EXACTLY the same, and 7 weeks into the semester I still can't tell them apart.
Came over from the link at blogumentary. (I'm one of her three readers.) I totally understand the clothes. I literally cannot stand to look at myself in the latest trendywear. It simply doesn't look right, I feel very self-conscious. The monkeysuit is even worse. I think it's because when I worked service jobs the better the monkeysuit on a customer, the more likely they were to make a show of lording over everyone who had to interact with them - like, "Can't you tell I'm your better? Look at my suit!"
I got a job about five years ago where I no longer had to wear the monkeysuit. Besides the satisfaction of not having to commute, I get to wear slacker casual everyday: khaki cargos and t-shirt or pullover with sneaks. (Blue jeans and I aren't on speaking terms since the low rise took over the world. That and I was around for the last years of the bellbottom's original go-round, I refuse to ever put them on again.) I save tons of money on wardrobe alone. And I don't have to change clothes after work. AND my clothes are actually comfortable. Living in a college town, I'd just look like an idiot trying to keep up with fashion anyway. The are more than enough "I'm still hip" 30-, 40-, and 50-somethings here buying their $80 shirts at Urban Outfitters. Even if I wanted to be, I'm too poor to be trendy anyway.
Hey el kay -
White sneakers? I thought all the kids wore those ridiculous shower thongs-er, flip-flops.
Post a Comment
<< Home