Glad to be here. Nice video really stating the children to know about the joy of sox. Wonderful title to look through….

Glad to be here. Nice video really stating the children to know about the joy of sox. Wonderful title to look through….

Ditto on autotuning the track with 808s accompanying the tablas

And as for plus size – well, learn to sew! It is not that hard. In the olden days people worked much harder than they did now, but they still managed to go outside looking presentable.

I was actually thinking DJ Rekha needs to remix this track ASAP. Imagine the music video…..

Oh lord no. I said “taste and discernment.” Superficiality and ostentatious displays of wealth that serve no purpose but to scream “LOOK HOW MUCH FUCKING MONEY I HAVE!” as loudly as possible are the exact opposite of that. That’s like school on a Sunday: no class.

I just mean putting yourself together. The fact that any article you read offering advice for a job interview says step 1 is to make sure you shave and take a shower that morning is very disconcerting. All I want is for people to leave the house with the expectation that people are going to see them. So put on some real clothes, don’t wander around in sweats or pajamas unless you happen to be gardening or working out. Just because you are a stranger on the sidewalk doesn’t mean I don’t owe you the respect of looking presentable. Dirt poor workmen during the Great Depression were http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6213#comment-273845 <blockquote>a while ago about how the millenial generation is bringing back the "not a slob" look</blockquote> <p>You mean this: <a href="http://funnyonly.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/generation-y.jpg">Generation Y</a></p> a while ago about how the millenial generation is bringing back the “not a slob” look

You mean this: Generation Y

It never hurts to introduce a modicum of taste and discernment.

Hear hear. Or HEARD THAT, rather. I think ZZ Top said it best, and I’m glad I decided to take their advice seriously at a young age. It’s true. Even the crustiest, punkest, attitudenest bad ass chicks dig a well-dressed man. (This is my jam when I’m getting dressed to go out, though.)

I don’t want to put words (or anything else…except maybe a laddoo) in Yoga Fire’s mouth, but I think s/he is advocating for people to discover and adopt their own individual, personal style. Fashion can be bought, style cannot.

I don’t spend a lot of money on clothes (maybe a nice hat and a Swatch and some new kicks once a year), but I like to think I’m stylish and I catch hella compliments all the time. Most of my gear comes from thrift stores–and not just because I’m cheap, but “my” style is kind of stuck in the 1970s. I like big wide-ass collars on my shirts. I also like three-button suits (from my rude boy ska show days). I realize that there are designers making new clothes in those styles, but I can’t afford them. And I figure that if an article of clothing has survived 20 or 30 years already, it’s much likelier built to last than today’s disposable sweat-shop gear. Some of my favorite shirts were bought for $5, 10 years ago. I mend them when they need it and the mending isn’t beyond my limited skills. I have taught class wearing slightly torn blazers (when those tears are in not-obvious places.)

1970s JC Penney duds are the flyest!

I live in the south now. I think it’s disgusting that people routinely go out in sweatpants and puffy-paint unicorn shirts bearing spaghetti stains. I am personally offended by that. You might call me classist, but I beg to differ. I think you owe the public–the people who are forced to look at you–at least some effort to clean up in public.

Wow, yoga fire, you feel very strongly about it! ‘No excuse’, eh?

One question– what exactly do you mean by “dress well”? If you are talking about American “style” (quotes denoting my own viewpoint ) then half of the point is buying the expensive brand name crap, er, I mean clothes.

But regardless of what you mean, it will always be difficult for some people to “dress well” in the U.S. which is anyone who doesn’t fit into the normally available sizes in the U.S. (i.e. too thin, too short, too tall, too large). Since we don’t have easy and inexpensive tailors like India (oh how I miss them) then unaverage people hard a very hard time finding clothes. (I know this since while I am not freakishly tall, I have quite long legs– it is hard to find pants and skirts which are long enough, and when I do find them, they are usually far more expensive then normal ones, or they have a limited supply of only boring and blah trousers, using the non-basic styles on come in “regular length”)