Fashions

[Pallas]

I noticed that standard fashions suck in a lot of ways for practical reasons. I was looking at hats (real hats, not baseball caps) and then ended up talking to someone about how it's apparently fashionable to wear Sherlock Holmes hats, top hats, and hats that look like hats you'd see on yodelers. I was just looking for some sort of hat with a brim because I like to just sit outside for hours and it sucks to do that with an uncovered head a lot of the time the same way it'd suck to sit outside naked a lot of the time. They said all the hats look weird to them since they don't see people in hats much where they live and I said I see people in hats (but not Sherlock Holmes hats, top hats, or yodeling hats, just some berets and wide-brimmed hats and fedora and bowler type hats) a lot but it's still a minority of people.

I also remembered one time when I was in high school and there was some "chariot race" outside for people in Latin. Everyone had a sheet for a toga, and it was really hot, so I took my white sheet and just put it over myself like a tent instead of wearing a toga. Someone asked if I was cold and I said that putting the white sheet over you loosely like that actually keeps you cooler instead of making you warmer and if you're hot outside you should try it. That's pretty much why everyone in the Middle East wears those dress and robe type clothes. But even earlier in the 20th century Americans and Europeans dressed in a way that works more like putting a cool tent over you in the summer than people do now.

I think most modern fashions are designed to keep people indoors. It might also be a result of people being indoors a lot, but you can still wear better clothes for being outside inside, and not really the other way. People have to start being indoors more in order for people's wardrobes being horrible for anything besides sitting on a couch in air conditioning can slip by unnoticed, so it's really a chicken and egg situation, but it's still weird. I read that hats stopped being standard because they were a hassle to wear in cars and that makes sense to me. The rest of the clothes adapting to the new environment of SUVs and suburban housing would follow just by natural evolution. But it still keeps people indoors. People are becoming fused into their new gross environments through fashions. Australian children have to wear hats in school because everyone knows they'll get skin cancer if they don't. But no one stops to think that just sun rays hitting right on you might be subconsciously discouraging people from enjoying the fresh air more in other places.

[Pole]

Well said. I see your points. I think fashions are hideously impractical and shopping for new clothes makes my skin crawls so I only shop in thrift stores to create my wardrobe. I don't like women's fashion at all so I end up looking like a butch lesbian but I'm only wearing clothes women were wearing 30 years ago in the midwest.