And why do women allow their husbands/boyfriends to dress terribly, when they are dressed up? Everything looks like rags now, cheaply made with the least amount of fabric and no linings. This was some fifteen years ago. Dress for Failure: Americans Look Like Slobs - The Feehery Theory Pam it is interesting you said that "everyone has their own idea of what is esthetically pleasing." I don't buy that argument because if you can afford PJ bottoms with the Duck Dynasty logo on them, then you can afford proper daytime pants from Target or Walmart. Very well said&very true. If there is a piece of your content used in one of my posts that you wish removed, kindly contact me via the contact form and I will delete it. They even go so far as to consider formal clothing stiff and boring. If you've ever been called an old soul like I have, or you were lucky enough to actually live during the mid-20th century in America, then you're in the right place! I posted about my distaste for tattoos on the Facebook page for this blog a couple of weeks ago, along with how I feel it's a serious sign of the lack of self love people have for themselves and their bodies (and also a denial of their natural beauty.) Who dresses down to go to the doctors office? I go to my local library; instead of handing my items to a waiting librarian to check them out for me, as I once used to do, I am now made to do it myself. All this nonsense with the jeans (mining and peasant trousers) started in the 70s with the rise of the left. I LIKE wearing a suit when I go out, though I may appear overdressed in even "fine dining" establishments. People's fashion changes from state to state or even county to county. Comedian Bill Maher questioned why celebrities and Democrat politicians do not address issues like the Black-on-Black crime wave in cities such as Chicago. I don't consider the Kardashians a good example of the point you're trying to make, because a lot of what they wear is trampy. I refused to have them on my ops after that incident. Recently I had the opportunity to play at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Queens. I don't think so!" For the love of God, stop dressing like crap - New York Post Even though America is still in an economic depression (yes, it really is! They look abominable but they think it makes them unique. American guys hate slender pants, by the way -- they say this style looks "gay"; I say it looks way more flattering than baggy pants (though part of the reason the slim pant trend will never catch on here is because of men's weight issues, which is another blog post entirely.). Most 9f us are the work horses that keep the system going, that's all. Casual pants with bleach spots and rips as fashion. This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. I believe it started somewhere in the 1990sI remember a scene in the movie "Clueless" where Alicia Silverstone's character Cher mentions how boys dress "nowadays": "So, okay. Who are they trying to impress if anyone? Why? Shortages of drugs like Adderall are growing in the United States, and experts see no clear path to resolving them. Why Are Male Celebrities Dressing like Such Slobs? 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 you're going to act like one. When I was a boy, I remember my mother once telling me she couldn't go to the store until she took the curlers from her hair. Lived a couple of years in Japan. It's wrong to call it "style" because obviously no thought or effort seem to go into women's hair today. Those cost money so its funny how none is spent on clothes yet tats get it. At least they were clean. It isnt limited to certain age groups anymore, either. StillShaving. You can blame the bloated, greedy corporations like Wal-Mart and Amazon for contributing to a culture of mass exploitation, and mass production all for the obese masses to consume without thought. Also the problem of world overpopulation and terrorism are alarming. What does "dress like kids" even mean in this context? People used to take decent care of both dress&their bodies,years ago. Hi, Pam! This is dangerous for blood circulation. And Mr. LaBeouf belongs in a loutish league of his own, wearing hot-pink running tights underneath tattered denim cutoffs, ripped-collared hoodies and Uggs. Said restaurant now has little, brightly lit computer monitors obtrusively placed on every table. A lot of them are bizarre, you cant help but stare because your eye is trying to figure out what youre seeing. They're always wearing track suits and sweats! I am asking for someone who dresses like a gentleman and presents himself professionally when the situation and setting calls for it. Needless to say I won't give money to that store in future. It doesnt mean you have to be wealthy or thin. And to make my point, all one has to do is watch the Oscars and see how the celebrities turn up at the awards, with their goofy outfits, or with some men wearing SNEAKERS with their tuxedos. I noticed how scruffy everyone was when I was over there. What's behind shortages of Adderall, Ozempic and other meds? It isn't just all about the men who look bad. So what's up with the overly-shaggy haired and bearded look in which famous men appear these days? I am sick and tired of this anything goes mentality. Or dressing like "lesser beings" dress. 135. Apparel is being displaced by travel, eating out and activitieswhat's routinely lumped together as "experiences"which have grown to 18 percent of purchases. I dress in accordance with the weather and make sure Im properly covered. Molloy wrote the run-away best seller in the 1970's entitled "Dress for Success," a guide for people who wanted to work their way up the corporate world. I suspect some women don't even look at the mirror for a second. In the 90s, after all clothing manufacturing, even ordstroms, was move to china the powers that be recognised that the quality was not very good for fashionable clothes. 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. Just look at how trim the general American public was in the 20th century. I'm an apple shape - I have no business wearing baggy t-shirts or too small pants. Hot pants are maybe not the best idea at a gourmet restaurant. We went to a concert at the Beacon (unbelievably ornate) and most of the women, no makeup, bare legs, tattoos, ugly clothes, appalling! Why are so many people looking like this? Hmm, interesting points. ), 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. americans dressing like slaves is by design. Fat people as well as very thin should not wear what they call leggings.These are tights not pants. Women should never wear leggings - if only they can see how awful they look in it, or maybe they know but it is what the stores want you to buy so they all buy the same crap. If one wishes to appear in public at large with tattoos, and looking like the circus freaks of old (often worse) than that is indeed one's choice. Both of my parents grew up in thrifty households, but my grandparents always made sure they and their siblings had appropriate clothing to wear to school, church, etc. First, it was clothing, then came the no shave look. I've gotten rather tired seeing ordinary people out in public places looking as though they were either refugees, or inhabitants of homeless encampments. Clean and neat is good. And guess whatI can afford my groceries,too. A pair of nice Wrangler jeans (no holes, slashes, not faded or thread-bare), a pair of Vasque hiking boots that are clean and in good shape, and a decent shirt or pull-over fleece sweatshirt (depending on how cold it is). Partly this has to. Having said that, I wholeheartedly agree with you; the absolute laziness and sloppiness of people (including, but not limited to, prospective employees) appalls me. Dressed to kill means to get noticed, to make yourself look really good by wearing your best clothes. Dow Jones Reprints at 1-800-843-0008 or visit www.djreprints.com. Unless they are a Doctor, all are dressed like trash. Red velvet suits with white shoes, "Aquaman" in a light pink suit. A young male yesterday that came in wearing flip flops, tank top, shorts and it was 40 degrees. These people are an eyesore and they're getting worse! Hi Pam! REAL reason #3: No game plan Some men actually start to take action and seek out advice and guidance from better-dressed peers and. This nonsense needs to stop right now. I actually had a senior faculty member come and talk to our new faculty about how to dress professionally (and why it is importantand these weren't just the stereotype faculty who lack "social skills," shall we say? Casual fashion was just starting to become socially acceptable but not allowed obscenities in public. Dear American men-boys: I know that you mostly don't have a clue, since you have been raised in a culture of dumb ass narcissism lacking restraint. It's been going on now for years and does absolutely nothing to ensure the average American will get noticed for their sense of style and sophistication. I do not in any way claim the rights of ownership to any of them. Great article, Pam! and implants. I was a sales associate in the men's and coats departments. George W. Bush later made blue the power tie of choice. Very neat and put together. Maybe they feel emasculated by a gender-blurred society and have retreated to cave man esthetics. Bill Maher questions why Chicago's crime wave isn't addressed: 'Why are It doesn't cost hundreds or thouands of dollars to wear clothing that doesn't look as though it functions for bedtime wear. Their posture is better, too. Unless you are living in poverty, their should be no reason why people should be dressing like dull slobs with no sense of style. I believe such personal values start at home but the catch-22 is if they weren't there or inculcated to begin with. Here in the U.K., unless I'm at work (I'm a military consultant), then you wouldn't catch me dead looking like most US citizens. The USA is being taken down on purpose..you really don't want to know what happens next..David. How Did America Become a Nation of Slobs? - Intellectual Takeout I should add I agree with the poster who commented on the excessive tattoos. She wanted to buy a white pair of women's underwear, but we couldn't find any. The human body looks better, in my opinion, when unadorned. But it's not just the men,who pay to look trashy,now days. April 26, 2023. I see a lot of people in stores that wear flip-flops (even in winter! To judge from Professor Przybyszewski's students, her one-woman crusade to rescue the nation from its own sloppiness is bearing fruit. This has, like evey other stupid thing, become endemic to so-called American culture, and it's really annoying to me. Never apologize, Pam, for stating the obvious. Plus although they're rare, there are risks with getting tattoos such as contracting a skin infection. No one at it.I honestly think my boss likes it this way though. My theory about the dress culture getting out of hand is due to the influence of music culture. Their were still social taboos on what people couldn't wear in public. Adobe Stock. My men and even the men of the Royal Marines had everything from gas piston to bolt assembly immaculate and lightly oiled within 15 minutes. During my childhood in the 1950s, the manner of dress was much more formal than it is today. October 2008. America definitely needs a renaissance not just in fashion but in general. I spend a lot of time wondering when people will care of such things again. When I do see someone dressed nicely, theyve usually added some touch thats supposed to be quirky and cool but is actually unflattering or just looks stupid. Am I saying we need to go back to dressing like they did in the 1920s. What the hell happened? It's hard to look good in anything,if you look like a beached whale,both men&women. Skinny jeans, skinny slacks, ankle slacks--teacher should not wear skinny slacks to work, but there wasn't anything else. As I live in a German speaking country I have also noticed that formal greeting is being more and more reduced. I don't get it. 286 friends. And it's only getting worse, I'm sad to say, while "technology" is displacing manners and common sense. And if you haven't picked up on it, I am a male myself who holds these "old-fashioned" opinions. 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.". The "trend" of people wearing pajamas (usually bottoms) in public is not new. Oscar Wilde once said, "You can never be overdressed or overeducated.". 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 . Even bums on the street have digital devices, as though to be without one is the ultimate comedown in our culture of automatons. At the end of our meal, the waitress brought back the little computer monitor to my table. It's a complete difference in attitude between what my grandfather would have considered appropriate or even halfway decent, as compared to the 20 year old pop culture twits who have infantilized the world with their inane behaviors and digital music. And gentlemen, we know its hot and youre exercising, but please keep your shirt on or at least wear a tank top. To me it signals low self esteem, laziness and no pride in yourself. Can we assume that the USA is a decadent nation that has given up trying to maintain what was once considered a decent standard in clothing and fashion representation? I am only 16 years old, it's not only age that matters, it's intelligence and basic common sense of capitalism and aestethics. Technology alone, including . A person can always change his clothes, but he can't change ugly tattoos. I live in Fairbanks, Alaskait's just now starting to get temperatures above +40 F (this is 15 April 2022), so people are starting to wear shorts again (when you've had temperatures in the -30s F or lower for a while, anything above 0 F actually feels warm). I've copped a few comments about trying too hard and things like that which i just let wash over my head. What is notable in both countries is that the standard goes up with the average income of the shoppers.Ties I can live without, but there are plenty to be had in UK shops, and if anything they seem to be having a revival especially with younger men. Is it because they are trying to imitate little joke ass punks like Justin Bieber? "My supervisor told me, 'Always dress up for Linda's class,. We get very nice clothes. I find it off putting and want to tell these Hollywood and U.K. guys to spruce up and look like a successfully civilized person, not a digital age Neanderthal Man. 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. They have ruined their otherwise good looks. More often than not, you can find nice clothing in thrift stores. Once again, Pam you've gotten inside my head and blogged about what I'm thinking! Including torn stained levys. 59 people were murdered in Las Vegas fairly recently by another deranged white male with no motive other than hatred. Too many people now days,either dress like slobs or sluts&I find it apalling,personally. However, I do believe this condition of looking like bums seeming to have little to know pride, is all (Gov.) Oh, and the "language", notice the level of profanity that is mostly bleeped out, radio, TV, etc..Great topic, Pam! Love your observations, Doug. A longtime user of the citys public courts and their anything-goes dress code, I complained at West Side daring to demand all white from its patrons but I eventually caved because I badly wanted to try out the clubs famed grass courts. 12 Courtney Love Courtney's style has always been along the lines of grunge/alternative so the preppy pant suits and super sexy dresses were never exactly her thing. I try to look as good as possible when out in public. For the record, I was born in the 1950s. Every roll shows the fat. So they started promoting the casual slob look in sitcoms, magazine, fashion shows and in the media. They have already been forgotten and more mass shootings will inevitably follow. Giorgio Armani designer fitted jeans, a fitted Stone Island, Dolce & Gabbana or other designer Italian t shirt, smart trainers such as Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana or even Adidas Gazelles. I love watching movies from the 30s to the 50s, wherein the majority were dressed to the nines and would never have even gone to bed, much less into public, looking remotely like the Wal-Martians of our time, unless they wanted to be sent to happy acres for degenerate behavior. I'm 62, Navy vet, retired engineer (Computer/Electrical), have been in the IT field for 30 years, and I'm a writer and artist. This was in the beginning of the 2000s. I never found David Beckham attractive and part of it definitely is the excessive tattooing. Tell this to the same idiots who make stupid faces on snapchat or like to bullshit there lives on Instagram. Big fat stomachs and oversized rumps exposed; tattoing mania; ignorance and imbecility; a lowest common denominator slacker attitude; no common sense. Behind the Backlash Against Bud Light's Transgender Influencer I'm of the generation called "Millenials," which is a label that I dislike, since it seems to imply that my generation is lost and stupid, or at least that's how I perceive it. My husband and i go out to expensive music performances, some of them classical, and I see older people dressed just as heinously, though. This explained all the jamming issues and stoppages they continually experienced during the contact we were engaged in. The women often arent dressed much better; they tend to wear clothes that are either too baggy or much too small for them. I guess that this is supposed to be cute, to live in a so-called "culture" wherein manners and educated speech are for the dogs, and having an intellectual disposition is considered strange. So I definitely see some of the worst here, although I do try to stay out of Walmart if at all possible. I thought I was the only who even noticed and am very glad for your article. Who designed such crap is beyond me. I can't tell you how happy I am to have found this site and this article on how sloppy people have become. Thoroughly enjoyed reading the article and all the comments! When did American youth culture stop being cool and interesting? She wore a beautiful scarf or turtleneck sweater along with her blue jeans. What you say is true, and as a New Zealander living in the UK, my impression is that the British are more careful about what they wear and many of my compatriots have slid down the same mucky hole as some Americans. I see so much women whos breast are ready to fall out and leggings to tight. Someone asked here "What the hell happened?" I'm a guy and I feel like you about this issue. to look even worse? All I know is, I make twice the money I did in 1995 but feel about half as professional. Dressed to Kill: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly - Tennis Now I'm 69 and think some people who dress like slobs have mental health issues. Well, I have absolutely nothing against same sex people, since I am one. I was reminded of a David Sedaris essay where he suggested to North Americans visiting Paris that one shouldn't visit another person's country dressed like they have come over to fix the plumbing. People have cast off classical beauty and age old esthetics for what they think is the new thing, when it really is the old abnormal. Even when I dont wear makeup or style my hair, I see to it that I am clean and presentable. Kylie Jenner may have been wearing a classy Eat Me Out T-shirt, but at least she wasnt at the theater. Apparently, the youngest of the millenial generation will work for minimum wage and be exploited, but is happy so long as they get to express themselves by looking vulgar and unprofessional. Tell this to the same people who walk down the street with iPhone in one hand and Starbucks in the other. Their pants are slimmer than that staple of American men's closets, chino pants. It has gotten so bad now that if a man wears an ordinary suit outside of a strictly professional business he will be conspicuous, and people will wonder if he's some snob or is rich and showing off. 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. Kids play tennis at Forest Hills West Side Tennis Club, famous for its strict all-white dress code. I don't look like a slob. People looking like potato sacks. Yesterday, after I had come out of the Fred Meyers East store, I saw an idiot young adult male wearing a toddler-like once-piece pajamas with cartoon characters on them, heading towards the entrance. The Slice: Young and old alike dress like slobs For patients, that can mean treatment delays, medication switches and other . Today I saw what had to be the world's ugliest lesbo walking into my local grocery store. I love to dress casually myself and it would be pretty ridiculous to don a dress and gloves to pick up milk and bread, like they did in the 1950s. A suggestion in one of the European books was to save all your worn-out, stained, threadbare clothes for your big European vacation, and then throw out each item after it was worn - that way, there would be ever-increasing space in your suitcase for souvenirs.

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