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Go to any public arena—a sports event, a shopping mall, Wal-Mart, you name it—and you realize the standard of dress for men and women, adults and children, has reached a low point in American history. Blue jeans are de rigueur; t-shirts with slogans, some of them billboards of obscenity, assault the eyes; pajama bottoms are worn to the grocery store; restaurant patrons appear at lunch looking as if they had just rolled out of the sack; grown men wear baseball caps while eating steaks at Outback.
What does our own sloppy dress tell us about ourselves? Are we too pressed for time to dress a little up rather than way down? Are we rebelling against the idea of beauty and culture? Or are we just too lazy to pull on a pair of slacks instead of wearing the sweats we slept in?
Oscar Wilde once said, “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” No one would ever consider me overdressed—or overeducated, for that matter—but if I am now regarded as well-dressed, a man representing haute couture, then I can draw only one conclusion.
We are a nation of slobs.
yeah, and so are oversized NASCAR T-shirts and fat people stuffed in yoga pants. I wasn’t aware that caring about ones appearance was for washed up losers."Good ole days" fantasies are for washed-up has-beens.
https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/how-did-america-become-nation-slobs View attachment 67247355 This is dead on correct, we are a nation of slobs and we should strive to be better. How can we be taken seriously by the world and be any sort of positive image when we look like we just spent a night in a dumpster.
yeah, and so are oversized NASCAR T-shirts and fat people stuffed in yoga pants.
https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/how-did-america-become-nation-slobs View attachment 67247355 This is dead on correct, we are a nation of slobs and we should strive to be better. How can we be taken seriously by the world and be any sort of positive image when we look like we just spent a night in a dumpster.
I feel fine, I don’t look like I spent a week in a trashcan.The Walmarts of yesterday were trash gutters. Know how people dressed for those? One cannot go to the slop houses of commoners and expect fashion. You're just trying to make yourself feel better.
yeah, and so are oversized NASCAR T-shirts and fat people stuffed in yoga pants. I wasn’t aware that caring about ones appearance was for washed up losers.
Exactly. A nation of men down on their luck, facing the worst of conditions still having the dignity and pride to dress as well as they could.You can probably start this with change in fashion threads during the rock & roll era of the Fifties and then the Sixties Revolution and continuations in style changes right up to today. People of Wal Mart is an excellent indictment of what you are talking about.
But what can really be done about this? Nothing I would think. I am always taken aback of 1930's soup line pictures of men in suits and fedoras. My how times have changed.
I feel fine, I don’t look like I spent a week in a trashcan.
You can probably start this with change in fashion threads during the rock & roll era of the Fifties and then the Sixties Revolution and continuations in style changes right up to today. People of Wal Mart is an excellent indictment of what you are talking about.
But what can really be done about this? Nothing I would think. I am always taken aback of 1930's soup line pictures of men in suits and fedoras. My how times have changed.
I enter two chili cook off’s every year and my shirts are tucked in and shoes are shined. No excuse ever. And over the years I’ve donated dozens of gently used three-piece wool suits ( three were Armani) to my local Salvation Army/homeless shelters. I’m doing my part to Help repair our image as a nation of slobsPerhaps you shouldn't spend your time among the poorest uneducated uncultured slobs in our nation. Go to a nice place. It's not the country that's broke, it's your sense of ambiance.
You're going to a chili cook-off and complaining about overalls.
I enter two chili cook off’s every year and my shirts are tucked in and shoes are shined. No excuse ever. And over the years I’ve donated dozens of gently used three-piece wool suits ( three were Armani) to my local Salvation Army/homeless shelters. I’m doing my part to Help repair our image as a nation of slobs
I enter two chili cook off’s every year and my shirts are tucked in and shoes are shined. No excuse ever. And over the years I’ve donated dozens of gently used three-piece wool suits ( three were Armani) to my local Salvation Army/homeless shelters. I’m doing my part to Help repair our image as a nation of slobs
Not at all, I’m fortunate that I make enough to live comfortably. But I’m also fortunate enough that at a very young age I realized the value of having pride in one’s appearance. And dressing well has nothing to do with income or Social status.I don't think the problem is the nation getting worse. I think it's you getting poorer. What you take as a decline in nation is actually a decline in your standard of living. Easier to say it's everyone. Just a guess.
https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/how-did-america-become-nation-slobs View attachment 67247355 This is dead on correct, we are a nation of slobs and we should strive to be better. How can we be taken seriously by the world and be any sort of positive image when we look like we just spent a night in a dumpster.
What can I tell you? Go to nicer places.not at all I’m fortunate that I make enough money to live comfortably. But I’m also fortunate enough that at a very young age I realized the value of having pride in one’s appearance.
And dressing well has nothing to do with income or Social status.
We've become more "mulitcultural".
You’re saying that choosing not to wear sweatpants that show your ass crack in public is a sign of “vanity and personal glory” I’m fine with that.Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
We've become more "mulitcultural".
What can I tell you? Go to nicer places.
What color is the sky in your world?
bingo.Dressing well does not have to mean 'new' or latest fashion. It means neat and clean.
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