Look around you next time that you are out in public where the great unwashed masses of suburbanites, working class Joes, and knuckle dragging Fox news heads gather, and you will notice one glaring thing – most Americans dress like children. From the endless bad tattoos to the stupid tee-shirts and short pants – we are a nation of childlike dressers.
I know that I am often guilty of the same thing. Like right now, I am at work, typing this on my lunch break while sporting a plane blue tee, shorts and am barefoot. After work, when I go out to meet my new friend at a coffee shop I’ll probably still be in some sort of shorts, but at least I’ll be sporting a button shirt and shoes. My big excuse for now is that it is summertime, will be close to 90f today and I’ll be on my bike.
Dressed Like a Child
Fuck though, look at pictures of people “back in the day”, they dressed nice even when the weather was hot. I guess that isn’t a valid excuse.
When I go to the main “campus” for work most of my co-workers are still dressed very casually. Granted we deal with software, not customers face-to-face, but when you stand in the cafeteria at lunch time and look around, it appears like a bunch of out-of-shape, very old high school students are at lunch. It really isn’t that big of a deal. Of course you dress the way you want to dress. However, I am going to make a concerted effort to dress more like an adult.
My closet contains some nice clothes. I will start wearing them. Along with the clothes of an adult I try to have the accessories that all well dressed men should carry: a pocket knife, a notebook and pen, a handkerchief, a phone/camera, money clip, and a flask.
Here are a few good links for the well dressed man:
The Art of Manliness
Put This On
