Feb
24In matters of culture and style, it must be said a battle revolves around looking good versus looking like a slouch. In fact, it’s style versus slovenliness and slovenliness is winning, unfortunately. Around these parts, class and style seems to be drowning amid a sea of baggy pants that hang down to the ground and back tattoos that would make the Illustrated Man run away in fright.
Many fashion experts are at a loss to pinpoint when the move from a sense of style and culture began to turn into a headlong rush into dressing like somebody who grew up on a canal barge first occurred. But if smell is any indication, the loss of the ability to put on a bit of eau de parfum spray in order to avoid at least smelling like week-old fish seems to have completely deserted many people.
Of course, it’s always the case that one generation will tend to rebel against the traditions and norms of another generation, and this is especially true when it has to do with younger people, especially men. Most of them today wouldn’t be caught dead walking around with a men’s sport watch on their wrists, for example. For them, busily digging around playing pocket pool to pull out a cellular phone seems to be something that they really love to do.
Why this is so — when having a watch on the wrist is far more convenient — probably has to do with the desire to show off the cell phone and its cutesy little decorations and color schemes than anything else. Considering that a typical watch today contains more computing power than all the computers used to put humans on the moon, it’s hard to see any other reason for why one would forgo this handy little instrument.
Another area that’s been hit hard lately is women’s fashions. Put aside, for a moment, the Paris runways, where nearly-anorexic models parade about in getups that would put a space alien to shame, and think about something as simple as women’s brown boots. For sure, there are still boots out there being worn by women, though they probably look more like something a US Marine would wear rather than elegant and stylish footwear for a lady.
It could be that many people have become completely and utterly enamored of modern technology, to the point where they look at something that might remotely be considered ‘old’ with the horror that people reserved for somebody shambling into town after being turned into a zombie by one of those invading alien armies we’re worried about encountering. For sure, the wristwatch is going down to bitter defeat even as we speak.
In the ‘good old days, ‘ a watch was meant for one thing and a telephone for another and never did the twain meet. Does anybody even remember being able to pick up a phone and call for the time from a real live human being? The answer to that question probably is ‘no, ‘ and it will for sure be a historical curiosity when a watch is found on the wrist of a person traveling between Earth and Mars, sadly.
