I really look down on people who don’t dress well

Kwek00 · 41-45, M

@Strongtea It's just stupid Strongtea, you are looking down on people because of something as subjective as taste. There is nothing there, but your own ego that has elevated itself to a region where it thinks it can be the arbitter of good taste. It's just something that makes you feel good, based on absolutely nothing you did. It's like smelling your own farts and pretending they should bottled and sold just because they are yours. Good luck with that attitude.

Kwek00 · 41-45, M

@ElwoodBlues I think it sounds better in french: [i]"Des goûts et des couleurs, on ne discute pas."[/i].

Anyway, artists, museum holders, people with art galleries, fashion designers, ... all that forms of aristery attract people that often [i](not always) [/i]love to smell their own farts by believing that they are the absolute arbitter of taste. I look down on those people, cause it makes no sense. It's just idiots that elevate their own subjective notions to absolute notions just because they are their subjective ideas. It's just collective stupidity to feel important about oneself by doing absolutely nothing then judge someone elses' taste by their own subjective standards. It's hollow as fuck.

ElwoodBlues · M

@Kwek00 I think part of fashion is the foundationless self elevation like you describe; another part is separating fools from their money. If you can convince people their self value depends on buying a "new look" every year or two, you're guaranteeing a large and steady stream of income to the fashion "industry." And it's actually a little different from yuppiedom, or at least preppiedom.

When whoever it was published the Preppie Handbook back in the eighties, their idea was it only needed to be written once, because although they was about expensive "business" clothing, they focused on timeless styles like a blue blazers & sensible skirts. They had to come out with a new edition when fleece became established because it's so long lasting. But the ethos of that book at least was anti-fashion even for the monied waspy set. The Preppie Handbook lampooned by the Yuppie Handbook a few years later; it was probably much more about tying one's self worth to the latest trends.