why do celebrities dress like slobs
Spike Lee in a purple outfit and some presenter in a woman styled suit. So did Kurt Vonnegut and Gore Vidal, all whom I miss, with their varied works that satirized the foibles of We the People and the hideous and incompetent "leaders" we "elect.". Why has it become fashionable to actually want to look like a bum even when you've got plenty of moola to your name? I was beginning to think i was just a grumpy ole buzzard. Large breasts swinging to and fro makes for an ugly site from gals who are not attractive in any way. I don't have a lot but I manage to look my best in any given situation. Wow! The store thanked me for reporting this and said they would take care of the problem. I LIKE wearing a suit when I go out, though I may appear overdressed in even "fine dining" establishments. This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. In a society like ours where half of the people are either overweight or obese, it doesn't help for the fashion magazines to portray unrealistically thin models wearing the latest spaghetti thin garments. There, a nation of slobs paraded through the crossroads of America. The Canadians apparently take more pride in their appearance than we do. but also afraid because we might continue some of the trends from this decade into the 2020s. Clothes way to tight or to small. I thought I was the last one out there who missed the "Carey Grant" look or the beauty of Grace Kelly and I'm in my 30's! in October 2013 (when Crocs were introduced in the late 90s, Maher quipped that people won't be happy until they can go shopping in a diaper) and I've read numerous blog posts attesting to how our European counterparts dress compared to us (hint: we've really let ourselves go.). Its okay to be heavy now, even if that weight gain resulted from a bad diet. That's not bullying, it's setting the standard. They are always wearing a suit that's been tailored to work with their physique, and fit them properly, or a nice jacket over a button down shirt. Go Retro is about celebrating the retro, and that means appreciating what people used to look like before these over the top trends took hold. I said on here a few months back in another post that every day we're another day closer to the depressing world depicted in "WALL-E" where humans are so obese they are immobile and they suck their nutrition from cups all day while glued to computer screens. I remember as a kid we dressed up to go out, even if it was to an A&W. Personally,I fail to see how any of these teens expect to be taken seriously in the real world,when they dress like dumpster divers,street walkers,and wannabe gang bangers,and are covered with tattoos,body piercings,and other mutilations.News flash child,nobody wants to see your underwear,or your scrawny (or giant) backside. That way they could develop a sloppy style that could be made for very little money and sell clothes for a lot of money. I was feeling special. Atom It's hard to look good in anything,if you look like a beached whale,both men&women. or "Why are you dressed up?" The cleaner cut look will always be timeless as far as I believe. My men and even the men of the Royal Marines had everything from gas piston to bolt assembly immaculate and lightly oiled within 15 minutes. As Grant Williamson, 25, a Knoxville, Tenn. law student and admirer of these stars style admitted, Its kind of sloppy., Copyright 2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. ( I was a sales associate in the men's and coats departments. And they complain about "suntan" stockings? (please,take them, and far away if you do. The people don't try to look their best because they live inside a marxist fever dream where everyone is their best buddy and everyone is so very equal. It was Molloy who first popularized the notion of the "power tie", which for me in college was a bright red one. I also believe the idea of having a foreign substance such as ink -- which is often made in China -- could have side effects years from now. They're always wearing track suits and sweats! I have written a few comments here about it, and I fear that I am starting to sound like a broken record. Ironically, I think that this is where most of today's confusion originates in the problems that are upon us now. I please myself. Theres the utter selfishness of it. The PC Police will probably be after me for saying as much. It's not a question of money, but of class, as in the way you present yourself in public. Im in my twenties, female, and a student. A good appearance doesnt just earn you respect, its a way of respecting yourself and boosting your confidence, which is something lots of people would benefit from. Tell that to the slobs who turn up at Broadway shows dressed as though theyd just walked in from a tailgating party one with a three-figure admission price, mind you. Help! It's spring time again, and now the slobs are out en masse wearing ugly shorts, displaying their ugly, dumpy bodies and trashy tattoos. Not everyone is or can be a size two. A couple of days ago I said to my husband, am I being a snob or have people become really sloppy? Stop wearing shorts and T shirts in freezing weather, too. This loss of basic common sense of what looks good has been indicated into the people for generations. I really long for a return to the days when men looked somewhat respectable even when wearing what was once considered to be casual clothing. To me it signals low self esteem, laziness and no pride in yourself. Suits, ties, and dresses: Ah yes, the way people used to dress for summer BBQs. Also, what's up with this new trend of people now wearing pajama pants out in public. My pet peeve is spandex/clothing out side the gym. I notice those physical traits, too, but also the way he is dressed. Ah, America in the Spring! What a moronic joke. I immediately asked the waitress to remove it from my table when we were being seated. Sweat pants, yoga pants for women, t shirts - it's pathetic. Especially if its in an office building in New York city we see all the people going to and from and dressed perfectly. It isn't realistic for me to try and don a suit that only an italian twink would be able to wear, even if I wanted to spend a bunch of money trying to do so. Good for you. Its looks like highlighter. I am striving to dress better every season. (I hate Picasso, for example.) What a dreary culture. I work in an elementary school and always dress professionally even though my title is not a high one at this point. Quite frankly I think the latter is a sign of mental illness and that applies to going overboard with tattooing and putting them on very visible body parts like your face. I can't tell you how happy I am to have found this site and this article on how sloppy people have become. It's one thing if you have ONE tattoo that is well done and has personal meaning to you; it's another when someone has an entire body part or their body inked over, often with various random designs that don't relate to one another. I went to my local grocery store which is now in a somewhat run-down shopping center in what used to be a better area of the "Dump." But you've got to realize that we live now in an age of post-1984 surrealism and computerized fascism. Showing up on time, looking nice, and sitting in the front attentive and off your phone ought to go a long way!Lastly, let's talk about body shapes. It's a shame because these people should know better. But I can't help feeling that there are too many dirty ingredients in the melting pot now. It's a society of disrespect through obnoxious clothing choices, ignorance, and a "screw you I'll be as offensive as I want attitude." Shudder. I find that the males are dressed far better than the women today in my area (North East)I was just in Manhattan a few days ago. All this nonsense with the jeans (mining and peasant trousers) started in the 70s with the rise of the left. It has to do with self respect. I can go down to the Men's Clothing Warehouse and spend three hundred dollars to look (approximately) like a millionaire. I believe such personal values start at home but the catch-22 is if they weren't there or inculcated to begin with. EGADS! I went to Las Vegas (for the first and last time)for a business convention in 1990 and was staggered by how badly everyone in the casinos dressed. So if someone looks like a slob, it's completely their fault. What's more, if I'm not mistaken, the mania for tattoos really accelerated starting around 11 years ago, when it was still uncommon to see the average person with "sleeves" and the like. It gets so old, and it's just another reason why my opinion of society is beginning to drop.Im all for individuality and self-expression, and Im not suggesting that everyone needs to dress to impress when they leave the house. Well, I have absolutely nothing against same sex people, since I am one. This is how one is supposed to pay, by using a machine instead of having the waitress give the bill and then give them money or a card. You are exactly right. Basically, we don't have an audience. This nonsense needs to stop right now. But then they still wouldn't care. Different strokes and all that. This is the reason why sites like People of Walmart get the attention they do--many of the images on there are so unbelievably grotesque and repulsive (breasts, bellies, and butts spilling out of too tight fabric; underwear missing altogether; bodily fluids leaking onto the aisle floor) they make me throw up in my mouth. However, I do believe this condition of looking like bums seeming to have little to know pride, is all (Gov.) Post Comments Fatties with tank tops and unnecessarily huge tattoos. It was especially shocking since I expected casino-goers to be as well dressed as they were depicted in movies and on TV shows.I was wearing business casual -- dress shirt, tie, nice slacks and shoes -- and people stared at me. People were fiddling with phones, and are mostly unable to even put the damn things away for a half hour meal. I can't understand why people look so debased now, but I suspect it arises from a lack of not just money, but also from a shared sense of sloppiness that society says is okay. Casual fashion was just starting to become socially acceptable but not allowed obscenities in public. Maybe today's generation feels it has to buy garments that can be washed without being dry cleaned. People don't have any pride anymore. Today, I still go out in public wearing decent-looking clothes. The examples go on and on, but it is coming to the point where interactions with other people, even as a customer, are lowering to a nadir. Yesterday, after I had come out of the Fred Meyers East store, I saw an idiot young adult male wearing a toddler-like once-piece pajamas with cartoon characters on them, heading towards the entrance. I am only 16 years old, it's not only age that matters, it's intelligence and basic common sense of capitalism and aestethics. It would be nice if the rest of us could comment on their attire but they still wouldn't care or sue for slander. (Polo ralph Lauren being one of them). I don't think so!" They look abominable but they think it makes them unique. For my entire life, I have dressed well and spent very little money. Considering it takes a lot of nerve to wear PJs out in public, I wouldn't count lack of confidence as one of the reasons. Sores like HM and Zara have the nicest clothing for the same price you would pay for what you usually buy. According to a paper from Social Psychological and Personality Science, a certain number of subjects were instructed to wear casual clothing and formal clothing before taking intellectual tests. It's all being done by design on purpose and it's happening with everything not just the way people are dressed, not just with them being extremely fat, and not just with them having tattoos all over their bodies, it's happening in every single solitary possible way it could happen within the USA. I see plenty of people who should know better. It appears to me, in my humble opinion, at least, that our society has given up apsiring and has accepted these debasements, and doesn't care about "keeping up appearances" at least for the sake of one's self respect. Coco Chanel once famously said, "Dress shabbily, and they remember the dress. Even the way they dress casually is heads and tails above us. It's quite repulsive. It derives from the Irish Gaelic slab, meaning mud. The "idiot trend" of looking like slobs is, sadly, not likely to turn back the other way any time soon. BTW I had a suit on as well! Very well said&very true. Out gets a latino woman and her man, who is wearing basketball shorts, a t-shirt and is covered in tattoos. They have already been forgotten and more mass shootings will inevitably follow. Like someone commented above, its sad that you would be looked at funny for wearing a suit with a fedora because you like to look nice. It's wrong to call it "style" because obviously no thought or effort seem to go into women's hair today. First, for a clue, I live in a town which is called "The Biggest Little City in the World," and which the comedienne Amy Schumer referred to as a "Dump." I volunteer at a thrift store. Enough with the ugly tattoos! Some might say I'm being snooty, superficial, judgmental--and maybe even a bully for having this opinion. It doesn't take much money to wear actual pants in public, instead of sweats and basketball shorts. But I digressthis post is about how people in general dress today. The smell was horrendous- parmesan cheese- him and her clad in ragged, ugly clothes, playing on their iphones. This look ruins some nice designer made pants and you can't even sit properly in them without feeling tightness around your knees. Better yet, look at photos of bands like the Who, moody blues, the small faces, and the Beatles in the mid 60s during the height of the mod movement. All will look ridiculous at 70 when everything is sagging and wrinkled. Did you see the recent Academy Awards in HOLLYWEIRD and notice the absurd outfits that the male celebs were sporting, as though they weren't supposed to be ashamed? Very true article, the men today dress like they just rolled out of bed.The typical male attire is a wrinkled up T-shirt, baggy shorts, no socks and flip flops; pathetic!Truthfully, is it asking too much to wear a clean pair of jeans, a dress shirt and shoes with style?Also make sure to button-up the tunic, wearing a dress shirt with the top unbuttoned is a no-no. I get turned off by the ugliness of tattoos and poorly and slovenly dressed people every time I go out. There appears to be no common sense of what is appropriate, compared with what is trashy and disrespectful. americans dressing like slaves is by design. Lose weight and you too can fit into nice suits. I'm not asking that every man dress like Don Draper and go to work wearing a suit, tie, and hat (but us ladies would certainly not complain if the working world looked like that again; just saying.) Bra less too. That quote must be extended today to both sexes. Some women wear way too big/baggy/frumpy clothing as well. I guess that this is supposed to be cute, to live in a so-called "culture" wherein manners and educated speech are for the dogs, and having an intellectual disposition is considered strange. I'm tired of it and wish that there would be a return to more conservative times when dressing to at least look presentable was the norm. %-). If I've used a photo, video, etc in one of my posts it means I really dig it! Being 18, I'm part of the uncaring generation and I have to admit that for years I've been a slob. Learning to dress tastefully is something anyone can do no matter their size, and once youve got it down, its not difficult. In the 80s we "woven ties", around 1990 everything was silk with geometric patterns, in the mid 90s, the trend was floral ties!I walked into that same dept store a week ago and saw virtually nothing. A colleague who used to work at the Neue Galerie a museum housed in a former Vanderbilt mansion would see visitors in cutoffs. During my childhood in the 1950s, the manner of dress was much more formal than it is today. I'm of the generation called "Millenials," which is a label that I dislike, since it seems to imply that my generation is lost and stupid, or at least that's how I perceive it. What kind of a standard is that? Shame on them! I've copped a few comments about trying too hard and things like that which i just let wash over my head. what happened to nice variety of long and short woolen coats? A pair of nice Wrangler jeans (no holes, slashes, not faded or thread-bare), a pair of Vasque hiking boots that are clean and in good shape, and a decent shirt or pull-over fleece sweatshirt (depending on how cold it is). Now we have fat slobs&sluts,who enjoy(or at least don't mind)making the list,on 'people of walmart',even if they are'nt IN walmart. Not to mention the hoards of young males with scruffy beards and un-groomed facial hair.I get the feeling many have never heard of such a thing as a belt as well. I live in Fairbanks, Alaskait's just now starting to get temperatures above +40 F (this is 15 April 2022), so people are starting to wear shorts again (when you've had temperatures in the -30s F or lower for a while, anything above 0 F actually feels warm). People should pay attention to keeping up appearances instead of rotting their minds with the unsrestricted use of technology. It also doesn't help that at least 95% of the clothing one finds at the local retail store is insipid and made in China out of synthetics that are cheap. Slobs. And the folly of it all is that in the longrun these cheapskate tactics don't save the business money, but actually lose them customers like me, who'll want to shop at a place where we feel our business is appreciated. Can we judge an entire country by its clothing choices? "Dress for success" is a true statement. I have a challenge for people who read this. I'm not sure what dressing down has to do with Trump or mass shootings. They have two children with them. I've talked about this before but it's just getting worse as the year goes on. Just look at how trim the general American public was in the 20th century. And guess whatI can afford my groceries,too. Technology and addiction to devices, maybe. I was watching the NBC nightly news not too long ago on a Sunday evening. Even working class people (which I am) used to take pains to dress as best they could for special occasions, such as church or going out to dinner. Extreme? Unless you have a personal tailor, probably at least 99% of clothing sold in what was once middle class retail stores is cheaply mass produced in some chinese sweat factory. George W. Bush later made blue the power tie of choice. YetI'm at a loss when I see so many obese people in public and I've noticed there's a LOT more obese women than obese men, it seems. ).When I'm "casually" dressed in a basic skirt and sweater, I'm considered "dressed up" because everyone else is running errands in their pajamas.Wellyou knowI could rant on this forever! People today just don't seem to give a s*it about their appearance and the way they present themselves. Now, if I was on-site somewhere and pulling data cables or working on equipment, I would wear a pair of jeans and work boots and a decent shirt. Not to mention, all the unsightly tattoos that these idiots are defacing their bodies with. Smoking: Three homeless people from South Ferry doss houses are in Battery Park on June 6, 1941. I will not wear the rags. I might otherwise resemble my Norse ancestors, though even they cared about their appearance. Yesterday, a colleague of mine was grappling with a . Nobody has any pride in himself/herself and nobody has any energy to look at another person either, so there is no need for pride anymore. Casual pants with bleach spots and rips as fashion. He had appeared regularly on CNN to discuss the missing Malaysian airliner wearing jeans and open plaid shirts, which didn't sit well with viewers, who told uFly's owner that he was "shaming Canadians" and making the country look bad to the rest of the world. I mean, c'mon, it looks like they just fell out of bed and put on some baggy pants, and take their greasy hairew!and cover it up with a backwards cap and, like, we're expected to swoon? I wear classic hats but I'd never leave one on my head at at table, though I would look much better than the morons with ballcaps if I did. I love watching old movies and tv shows pre 1965 and see all the well-dressed people. Look at old Kodachrome photos from the 60s or look at old film videos from Disneyland in the 60s on YouTube. I'm an apple shape - I have no business wearing baggy t-shirts or too small pants. She wanted to buy a white pair of women's underwear, but we couldn't find any. And why do women allow their husbands/boyfriends to dress terribly, when they are dressed up? Apparel is being displaced by travel, eating out and activitieswhat's routinely lumped together as "experiences"which have grown to 18 percent of purchases. Every time I see some eejit wearing pants that are 10 sizes too big, waistband below their butt, flaunting their boxers to everyone--I want to give them a good paddling for being slobs and see them shamed by standing on a busy street corner wearing a big sign about being a slob in public (or something to that effect). One does'nt have to 'dress up' per se,but they can certainly try to dress decently/nice. when running errands, by the way. I don't buy that argument because if you can afford PJ bottoms with the Duck Dynasty logo on them, then you can afford proper daytime pants from Target or Walmart. As I live in a German speaking country I have also noticed that formal greeting is being more and more reduced. no just NO. Yes to the ugly tats. As Maher pointed out in his on-air editorial, if you can afford $17.99 pajama bottoms with the Budweiser logo on them, then you can afford the $11.99 jeans at Target. Skinny jeans, skinny slacks, ankle slacks--teacher should not wear skinny slacks to work, but there wasn't anything else. La La Land indeed. It doesnt mean you have to be wealthy or thin. The sleeves of tattoos looks so gross, not artsy and cool. When I was still working, I would at least wear a pair of Dockers pants, a button-down shirt, and tie most days, though sometimes I'd wear a nice polo shirt with my company logo on it -- tucked in. Where is the decency?I'll probably be "overdressed" in their eyes, but I intend on showing up to class in a nice dress and heels everyday with my hair neat in a braid. They are supposed to be rich and glamorous and the last thing that we would expect is that they live like slobs. Aaron Hernandez, the ex-Patriot that was on trial for murdering two people (and who killed himself after being found guilty) was covered with them, including sporting random ones on his neck. It seems sadly apparent that the average "american male" has been bereft of a culture in which fathers would show their sons how to at least form a necktie. One pair belonged to a father and son schlub team; in fact the dad even had his sunglasses on the top of the ballcap, which was camouflage, while junior was wearing his typically backwards. The one store "associate" who was there never greeted me, and looked at me as though I was in her way, while she was more interested in pretending that she had to tidy up. I thought I was the only who even noticed and am very glad for your article. Also, I've never understood the appeal of bulky hooded sweatshirts, particularly on women. This has, like evey other stupid thing, become endemic to so-called American culture, and it's really annoying to me. Who designed such crap is beyond me. One cannot help but wonder where are morals and standards are heading to and it's quite sad to see America this "dumbed down". Feeling good about. Contrast this to what we are used to seeing in the US now - baggy jeans with the croth around their knees, t shirts that look about 2 or 3 sizes too large and ugly trainers that look like they were made for walking in space.
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