), I think it repulsive when I see big ugly people wearing their "jammies" to the store, or sagging their grungy pants as if they flaunt being a lowlife. I was feeling special. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Thanks for contacting us. For patients, that can mean treatment delays, medication switches and other . This is what modern technology has wrought. I don't have a lot but I manage to look my best in any given situation. 286 friends. The Real Reasons So Few Men Dress Well This nonsense needs to stop right now. I am only 16 years old, it's not only age that matters, it's intelligence and basic common sense of capitalism and aestethics. Go Retro is about celebrating the retro, and that means appreciating what people used to look like before these over the top trends took hold. We get very nice clothes. I had to lead a patrol of mixed Legionnaires, British Royal Marine Commandos and US Marines, and after a heavy contact which took place on ops, I had the men in extended line cleaning their weapons - an essential task to keep your weapon operating efficiently. Ironically, I think that this is where most of today's confusion originates in the problems that are upon us now. To me it signals low self esteem, laziness and no pride in yourself. ( "Why?" I asked. This has, like evey other stupid thing, become endemic to so-called American culture, and it's really annoying to me. People were dressed far better even in the Great Depression, which is telling, because style in the 30s didn't stop evolving due to hard times. I'm optimistic for the 2020s to see if we will see a fashion renaissance. LOL. Skinny jeans, skinny slacks, ankle slacks--teacher should not wear skinny slacks to work, but there wasn't anything else. Why do so many men dress like slobs? (fashion, washed, look) - Fashion Mr. Biebers saggy sweatshirts and stringy blonde hair suggest hes the lost long son of Jeff Spicoli, the surfing stoner in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Mr. Hill achieves slightly more polish overall, but his tie-dye T-shirts and short board shorts place him squarely in the slobcore category. I suspect some women don't even look at the mirror for a second. It isnt limited to certain age groups anymore, either. Now that it's warming up, it's easy to spot the idiots who are part of the "slob culture". I do not in any way claim the rights of ownership to any of them. Large women in ugly t-shirts with vulgar sayings, "my other friend is a slut too," political or just idiocy. It was Molloy who first popularized the notion of the "power tie", which for me in college was a bright red one. Technology and addiction to devices, maybe. It's gotten so ugly that I notice if someone is even wearing a decent pair of jeans, compared to most of the slob army out there now. I often went beyond this basic requirement and donned a sportcoat as well. Sad isn't it? There are comfortable dress shoes! It's rather timely that I found your article because I had commented on a post in Facebook about the same thing. Hi, Pam! Its okay to be heavy now, even if that weight gain resulted from a bad diet. %-). Even wearing this which i don't think is overly flashy I stand out like a sore thumb in a decent size city amongst my age group and older ages. So did Kurt Vonnegut and Gore Vidal, all whom I miss, with their varied works that satirized the foibles of We the People and the hideous and incompetent "leaders" we "elect.". When people who appear in front of millions on tv don't know how to wear a suit, then you can bet that Americans have a real problem with dressing right. People go out these days looking as if they've never spent more than $10 on an article of clothing. How Did America Become a Nation of Slobs? | SHARPER IRON Visited Europe. I'm not asking that every man dress like Don Draper and go to work wearing a suit, tie, and hat (but us ladies would certainly not complain if the working world looked like that again; just saying.) Even then there were much better choices and styles in menswear and home furnishings, etc. I also believe the idea of having a foreign substance such as ink -- which is often made in China -- could have side effects years from now. I really hope this trend does not continue into the 2020s. Lose weight and you too can fit into nice suits. I see the latest Issue of GQ with the newest sportcoats from top designers and buy an identical one for pennies on the dollar. My father practically wore a coat and tie to mow the lawn. Partly this has to. Learning to dress tastefully is something anyone can do no matter their size, and once youve got it down, its not difficult. I thought this was so disgusting that I called the store and told them to look out for this person who went in. A bald gorilla? Let's not pass over the fat women slobs out there. If Justin Bieber gets twenty tattoos on his body, then this must be okay and cool for the young and dumb kids to do. Give me a break. When I was in my late teens and early twenties, I worked at a nationally known clothing and home goods retailer. No one would ever consider me overdressedor overeducated, for that matterbut if I am now regarded as well-dressed . And guess whatI can afford my groceries,too. I should add I agree with the poster who commented on the excessive tattoos. Adult couples wearing raggedy t-shirts with some ugly nonsense graphic on it. I almost couldn't believe what I was seeing! Feeling good about. It derives from the Irish Gaelic slab, meaning mud. Those cost money so its funny how none is spent on clothes yet tats get it. Annie -- I think it's a combination of several reasons: laziness, lack of pride, lack of common sense, the spilling over of casual Friday (which I never had a problem with) into places where one shouldn't be so casual. I think all the excessive tattooing which has apparently become "mainstream" is indicative of an ill society that is in a sad stage of deterioration. Or if a lady wears attire that isn't masculine based, why, she is an oddity and the feminists will be on her for looking as women should (don't tell the PC police on me!) So while you can hold on to your crop tops and ratty band tees, you may also think twice about where and when you wear them. 12 Celebs That Love To Dress Like Hobos | TheTalko Most Americans dress like absolute slobs and should be ashamed of themselves I've been fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to travel outside the US. There really is no excuse for it,except that people are'nt taught to dress better by parents or media. People seem to have no thought about etiquette anymore, and go out as they are and think nothing of it. Extreme? I never found David Beckham attractive and part of it definitely is the excessive tattooing. Casino clientele today is definitely not the way they look in the movies!redc1c4 - I suppose you've never heard of the saying "dress the part"? They were very popular, but most of the suggested hotels were skid-row dives and the restaurants tended to be of the Automat (remember them?) What happened to the days when you had to go out "dressed appropriately"? Especially if its in an office building in New York city we see all the people going to and from and dressed perfectly. Basically, we don't have an audience. I am an apple shape and look for clothes that will look nice on me. Well, its not a political thing so our President has nothing to do with this plague of garbage dressers.liberals are usually the biggest offenders, but hey. Its not just young people. It isn't realistic for me to try and don a suit that only an italian twink would be able to wear, even if I wanted to spend a bunch of money trying to do so. The slobs should look in the mirror to see what they look like. Or dressing like "lesser beings" dress. It's sad -- seems like there's a plan for these businesses to separate us from other humans and save some money in the process. It's also due to the usage of technology and exposure to the information sewer which is the internet. Even bums on the street have digital devices, as though to be without one is the ultimate comedown in our culture of automatons. No wonder everybody from Patti LuPone on down is complaining that nobody knows how to behave anymore: If you dress like a child, chances are youre going to act like one. Opinion: American Men Need to Stop Dressing Like Overgrown Toddlers However, I continually wonder what the hell has happened to our country, with its sham "values" and its embrace of the ugly and hideous, whether it be in fashion, bodies, attitude, politics (don't get me started about Trump!) Apparently there aren't even dress codes for businesses anymore, and anything goes. I was watching the NBC nightly news not too long ago on a Sunday evening. It isn't just all about the men who look bad. Some conservative commentators and celebrities began calling for a boycott of Bud Light after the beer was featured in a social media promotion by a transgender influencer, Dylan . I'm tired of it and wish that there would be a return to more conservative times when dressing to at least look presentable was the norm. However, the sad part is that we are now supposed to believe that such public obscenities are to be humored, or accept them for what they choose to be. As I live in a German speaking country I have also noticed that formal greeting is being more and more reduced. I'd rather see a return of the old "zootsuits" than what I see people wear nowadays--or at least some of the 1960-1970 clothes. Personally,I fail to see how any of these teens expect to be taken seriously in the real world,when they dress like dumpster divers,street walkers,and wannabe gang bangers,and are covered with tattoos,body piercings,and other mutilations.News flash child,nobody wants to see your underwear,or your scrawny (or giant) backside. I said on here a few months back in another post that every day we're another day closer to the depressing world depicted in "WALL-E" where humans are so obese they are immobile and they suck their nutrition from cups all day while glued to computer screens. I know that their were people like this in the 50s and 60s but it was kept hidden from mainstream America and I know, smoking is not attractive but it was a product of the time period (people didn't know any better). A leading question, but I believe that most people today dress less well than the generations before (myself guilty). Female athletes haven't. I work in a hospital and the vistors and patients who come in dressed in. whatever is ghastly. It's one thing if you have ONE tattoo that is well done and has personal meaning to you; it's another when someone has an entire body part or their body inked over, often with various random designs that don't relate to one another. ", image is the provenance of the non-performer.or, as we said in the Army, "All show, no go. It also comes from a defiant attitude of I will be comfortable at all times no matter what, and f-you if you dont like it. Then again, the rationale is: why should one much bother to wear a suit when most people will show up to the party looking like schlubs? Tell this to the same idiots who make stupid faces on snapchat or like to bullshit there lives on Instagram. I find that the males are dressed far better than the women today in my area (North East)I was just in Manhattan a few days ago. Good for you for making the effort to look nice! REAL reason #3: No game plan Some men actually start to take action and seek out advice and guidance from better-dressed peers and. Yet, given enough time there may be a reaction to all this boorish behavior and sloppiness masquerading as fashion. This has zero to do with being poor. It was especially shocking since I expected casino-goers to be as well dressed as they were depicted in movies and on TV shows.I was wearing business casual -- dress shirt, tie, nice slacks and shoes -- and people stared at me. Huh? ), I have seen too many men dressed inappropriately in fine restaurants and other venues that call for some professionalism: baseball caps (a huge no-no when worn indoors, guys--remember that scene from. I went to my local grocery store which is now in a somewhat run-down shopping center in what used to be a better area of the "Dump." Coco Chanel once famously said, "Dress shabbily, and they remember the dress. I've read that on the whole, Europeans are far better dressed than Americans. That thought chills me and make me sad, and more lonely for days gone by. I could go on and on, but I fear I have said much and don't wish to pontificate at the expense of your patience or your blog. on this blog. I have actually been mistaken on numerous occasions by other shoppers as an employee because I was dressed halfway decently. I live in a big city and jeans, fitted baseball caps, and Timberland boots are everywhere here. As Maher pointed out in his on-air editorial, if you can afford $17.99 pajama bottoms with the Budweiser logo on them, then you can afford the $11.99 jeans at Target.
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