Fashion Faux-Pas

[Bootylicious!! 2]

I wouldn't ever go out in pj's. My mom always taught me that no matter where you are going, you get "dressed" to go there. For example, I got out of the shower the other night, around 8, and decided I wanted some coke to drink. We didn't have any at the house so I asked Javi to run get some. To which he said no. So I said, fine I'll go myself. I went to the bedroom, put on jeans, a t-shirt, a hoodie, and tennis shoes. I was just going 2/10 of a mile down the road. I seriously could have walked to where I was going. It's just not acceptable to me to go out that way.

[Mark&Steph 0]

There was a time where people had this quaint notion that you show respect to other members of society by the clothing you choose to wear in public.

I don't understand. Are you saying next time I see someone in an outfit I do not like that I should think they are disrespecting me?

[Empress of Groovy 373]

never noticed anyone recently doing that here in orange county or in NYC last year.

I've seen it here at our local Tarzhey, and it wasn't early morning or late at night.

There was a time where people had this quaint notion that you show respect to other members of society by the clothing you choose to wear in public.

I don't think that choices about what to wear in public ever had to do with respect for others, at least in the "modern" times.

[Caladan 19]

We do dress for others, but drawing the line at 'decently covered' is really all it needs to be to be acceptable. I'm not liking the undercurrent of 'gee, fat people are nasty, I can't bear to look at them in public' in this thread.

[Empress of Groovy 373]

We do dress for others, but drawing the line at 'decently covered' is really all it needs to be to be acceptable. I'm not liking the undercurrent of 'gee, fat people are nasty, I can't bear to look at them in public' in this thread.

I agree that we dress for others, although I wouldn't say that the average person's motivation when deciding what to wear in public is consideration of or respect toward others; it's based more on how that person wants to be perceived by others.

In more specific instances, one's dress has to do with respect, such as dressing for a meeting or interview, going out to a function or dinner, etc. I'm a really casual person and am all about jeans and sneakers (that said, I would never wear PJs and slippers--slippers!--to get, say, milk), but I like to think I have some sense of propriety.

My husband had a meeting a few months ago with a young guy who has a little company that does some work for my husband's company. They met at a nearby coffee place for what was billed a casual meeting, and the guy shows up in an old t-shirt, cargo shorts, and flip-flops. Granted, it was a casual meeting, but when Jon was telling me about it, I said, "Who is this doofus? Would it have killed him to put on a pair of pants and a shirt that's not a t-shirt?" I sounded like my mother. Ha! But anyway, the kid seemed to be saying, "I'm young and successful, and I can wear whatever the #### I want." I'm all for wearing casual and comfy clothing, but show a little respect!

But in terms of throwing on sweatpants to run out and get baking soda, who gives a $#it about that? Everday life shouldn't be a fashion contest.