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Posted on 04/16/2009 10:00:00 AM PDT by La Lydia
On any American street, or in any airport or mall, you see the same sad tableau: A 10-year-old boy is walking with his father, whose development was evidently arrested when he was that age, judging by his clothes. Father and son are dressed identically -- running shoes, T-shirts. And jeans, always jeans. If mother is there, she, too, is draped in denim. Writer Daniel Akst ... Writing in the Wall Street Journal...has denounced denim, summoning Americans to soul-searching and repentance about the plague of that ubiquitous fabric, which is symptomatic of deep disorders in the national psyche.
It is, he says, a manifestation of "the modern trend toward undifferentiated dressing, in which we all strive to look equally shabby." Denim reflects "our most nostalgic and destructive agrarian longings -- the ones that prompted all those exurban McMansions now sliding off their manicured lawns and into foreclosure." Jeans come prewashed and acid-treated to make them look like what they are not -- authentic work clothes for horny-handed sons of toil and the soil......
Denim is the clerical vestment for the priesthood of all believers in democracy's catechism of leveling -- thou shalt not dress better than society's most slovenly. To do so would be to commit the sin of lookism -- of believing that appearance matters. That heresy leads to denying the universal appropriateness of everything, and then to the elitist assertion that there is good and bad taste.
Denim is the carefully calculated costume of people eager to communicate indifference to appearances. But the appearances that people choose to present in public are cues from which we make inferences about their maturity and respect for those to whom they are presenting themselves....
Not to mention Elvis.
Jeez, Will. Don’t you have something better to complain about?
I from Texas... we all wear jeans. Nothing wrong with that.
Some of us actually work for a living. Soft garments are expensive and unsuitable.
If you really want to complain about sloppy dressers, I have two words:
Sweat pants.
George Will is slowly morphing into Garrison Keillor.
Uggg. Oops. That probably doesn't meet Will's expectation for proper discourse. What a waste of time for him.
Of course Will doesn't mention anything about the millions who wear their pants, denim or not, with the crotch around the knees. Of couse that might offend Will's dinner partner BRrack. He is so full of himself anymore.
The headline did not come up when I did a search. Wonder what happened. Sorry to have offended you.
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