Clothes make the man. Well, they say a lot about the man. I like a suit, and I like wearing a suit. Yet, I spend most of my time looking pretty relaxed, t shirt and jeans is standard uniform for me. But I can clean up if I have to. The point is I will probably never be considered best dressed... (my soon to be wife will try though)
I have also heard that people will often dress in the style that reflects the era when they were most confident, especially if they feel stressed or confused... like the guy rocking the members only jacket during his midlife crisis.
What confuses me is the people who still dress in the pants down around there knees, shirt six sizes too big or wife-beater under shirt, hat backwards flat billed. When was that the style? Isn't that a throw back to a prison culture? I understand that certain artists and performers wore this clothing to exemplify a personal growth from a checkered past and toughness that can only be gained from survival on the streets on the fringe of society and becoming influential despite being robbed of self as a convict. So does wearing these clothes not being an artist, say at walmart with your dumpy wife and feral pack of toddlers imply that you would feel more comfortable on the streets dealing drugs or stealing to survive, or in lock up paying off rival gangs with cigarettes to avoid shower rape?
Is a life on an entitlement program with a wife and small children really less appealing than prison? And how can you dress in a way made popular by groups of people who refuse to accept and trust authority (aka the man, government, the police) and still stay on government assistance?
This makes you a poser, and a terribly dressed one... why not attempt to look like someone of wealth and status? Or dress like those artists who achieved success from their craft, dr. Dre wears suits, and jay z, and 50cent... wake up you have kids... you are not a thug, every thug wants to give their kids a better life and stop running the streets, or at least that's what the rap lyrics say...
I guess its way cooler to dream of a step backwards... im going to start dressing like the homeless or like me at 18 (same thing really ).. see you at Walmart, first of the month...
So ends the rant..
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