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good clothes make you look like the most interesting man in the world, t-shirt and crocs make you look like a schmuck, become educated & mature & get good fitti
by stinos 11y ago
good clothes make you look like the most interesting man in the world, t-shirt and crocs make you look like a schmuck, become educated & mature & get good fitting clothes
Unless you don't come near many people who think your way, then the look of clothes doesn't mean much. After all, it is a bit superficial and underneath those clothes we ware roughly the same.
Your whole story is based on certain standards you have, which you acquired during the years because of local culture, how you were raised, which people you see and so on. You value clothes and the look of it. That's ok. I value clothes mainly for their function, how long they last, looks of it come second. If it doesn't feel good I simply don't wear it. That's also ok. I also happen to know and frequent mostly people who think that way. Again, due to culture, how I was raised etc. So while in your eyes we might look like a bunch of schmucks, in truth we are no different, we have the same type of jobs and so on.
they express your interest in and knowledge of fine things. Meaning you are smart, you are interesting
Not quite. Just like people who are not well dressed can be smart and interesting, being well dressed doesn't at all epress a one to one relationship with how smart or interesting you are. There are enough people who look well dressed but just because they copied a look from a magazine or because they had someone pick clothes for them. In which case they look the same, but in reality they don't care about how the clothes fit or what they are made of, and they are smart nor interesting.
- peterwwillis 11y agoWell, you're right in the sense that wearing X doesn't necessarily translate into who you are. But by studying the aesthetics of X, it can influence who you are and how you think. Underneath the layers of color on a Matisse, it's all just canvas. And the paint itself is superficial. But jesus, there's so much in that painting if you know how to look at it. (Ironically, Matisse did not fit in with the artist crowd of the time in Montparnasse because his dress and habits were incredibly boring and regular, yet everyone thought of him as the "wild man" from his use of color)