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Jan. 17th, 2009 04:50 pmToday I stumbled on a "What not to Wear" that I think was completely off-base. Ordinarily I agree with them. They take people who wear t-shirts with enormous kitty-cats printed on them from the 80s or people wearing things 2 sizes too small or too large and either give them an update or teach them how to select things which are of a similar style but flatter their figure.
Today though they took a young girl wearing punky stuff (like I wear) and made her over into a preppy clone. Consistently saying stuff like "now you look less like an angry teenager and more like a pretty young woman". The comment that offended me most was "now you look like the kind of person people would want to be friends with. I guess that must feel different. I mean, wearing black and skulls doesn't encourage people to come up and talk to you." What a fucking dumbass!!!
I understand the virtue of wearing something suitable to the occasion. Business clothes at work. Frilly dresses at proms and weddings. Black and modest at funerals. But there is no reason to not wear what you LIKE in completely informal situations. Sometimes I end up wearing more business-casual stuff in informal situations (like shopping in the mall after work or on lunch hour), and speaking from experience, I can with all honesty say that I get FAR more people approach me and compliment pieces of my wardrobe when I dress "like an angry teenager in skulls and black" than when I put on a nice skirt and a pretty sweater.
We don't all have to look the same. And I propose that what makes us approachable is not what we're wearing, but how comfortable we are in it.
Today though they took a young girl wearing punky stuff (like I wear) and made her over into a preppy clone. Consistently saying stuff like "now you look less like an angry teenager and more like a pretty young woman". The comment that offended me most was "now you look like the kind of person people would want to be friends with. I guess that must feel different. I mean, wearing black and skulls doesn't encourage people to come up and talk to you." What a fucking dumbass!!!
I understand the virtue of wearing something suitable to the occasion. Business clothes at work. Frilly dresses at proms and weddings. Black and modest at funerals. But there is no reason to not wear what you LIKE in completely informal situations. Sometimes I end up wearing more business-casual stuff in informal situations (like shopping in the mall after work or on lunch hour), and speaking from experience, I can with all honesty say that I get FAR more people approach me and compliment pieces of my wardrobe when I dress "like an angry teenager in skulls and black" than when I put on a nice skirt and a pretty sweater.
We don't all have to look the same. And I propose that what makes us approachable is not what we're wearing, but how comfortable we are in it.
