Posted
4/16/2009 05:20:00 PM
by Douglas
George Will bloviates (does he have another setting?) on the evils of blue jeans and the eminent breakup of our social fabric by people
wearing them.Denim is the carefully calculated costume of people eager to communicate indifference to appearances. But the appearances that people choose to present in public are cues from which we make inferences about their maturity and respect for those to whom they are presenting themselves.
I wouldn't disagree with his argument, although I'm guilty of it a lot of the time, but
blue jeans? Really? That's the nit he wants to pick about how Americans dress like shit? The last flight I was on had me sitting next to a guy in a tank top, cut-off blue jeans, a backwards turned Skoal Bandit cap and a dirty pair of Crocs, which have to be the absolute
worst thing inflicted on humanity since the guillotine or Russell Brand. On a plane where over half the occupants weren't even wearing socks, I'd have
loved to see some slobs actually put on a pair of jeans.