Fashion

Fashion doesn’t rate highly on my scale of priorities. I just want to be comfortable in what I’m wearing. Clothes to me are simply protective gear to prevent me getting sunburnt or cold or wet. I’d be just as happy without clothes if I felt I didn’t need them.

Social pressures have a lot to answer for.

Think back to the origins of clothes. They were for just the purposes I hold as my values – therefore I feel redeemed.

Different Societies around the world have different customs and fashions. Some native cultures in warmer parts of the world wear very little. The Australian aboriginal at the time of European arrivals wore nothing. They had dark skins that didn’t seem to sunburn, they were warm, and they didn’t need clothes. When it was cold they had animal skins they could drape over themselves for warmth. If it rained – they got wet – so what – they dried off when the rain stopped.

Our “Society” deems that I wear clothes at all times in public and that they meet certain “standards” determined by “somebody else” who thinks they have the right to make those decisions.

My wife is a slave to fashion in regard to wanting to “look nice”. I don’t have a problem with that. Live and let live is my motto. However, it doesn’t stop there…..

She is critical of what I choose to put on (remember - to be comfortable – not concerned with “looking nice”) particularly when we are going out. It’s all the same to me, but no I have to change and I should wear this or wear that. My mother was the same.

Women in general get into the habit of dressing their kids and they never grow out of the habit and it seems they can never make up their minds about what they’ll wear themselves.

It doesn’t take me half an hour and six changes of outfit before making up my mind what I’ll wear today.

Anyway, that’s the trials and tribulations of life and if that’s the worst I have to deal with I guess it’s not too bad, but gee I sometimes wish I lived in times when fashion wasn’t a passion and the only dictates were the climatic conditions.