(While I am thinking about fashion) A friend asked me today to write about buyin

(While I am thinking about fashion)

A friend asked me today to write about buying and wearing suits.

As I said in my last post, I realized that NY had lost touch and become an insular and irrelevant microcosm.

So since most fashion literature comes from NY, I have been working on a long article of corrected do’s and dont’s that launder NY’s anti masculinism (effeminacy) from fashion advice.

To do this requires that I make general statements about formal, business, smart casual as well as casual, working class and proletarian wear. Thus takes some effort.

The reason being that our physical interaction with the physical world is dependent upon our class. Or more simply stated our clothes reflect our needs for physical movement.

If you drive a jaguar from you attached garage to an underground office park, and walk fifty feet on washed pavement, enter an elevator and exit into a carpeted floor walked upon by identical people then italian shoes and fine woolen slacks carry no wear. Someone who walks five blocks to a bus, five more to work at home depot has different needs.

Most of us are in the middle if that spectrum and increasingly that arena of wool slacks is dying off.

Clothes are class uniforms.

They can help or hurt you.

And the days if easy employment and dressing to rebel are over outside of the proletarians.

Rebellion is a luxury of wealth. The century of “easy” is over I think.