When we were younger, we savored the experience of afternoons squandered in observing street fashions here in the States, punctuated with self-righteous references to the need for “fashion police.” We would stratify people into the fashion appropriate and candidates for fashion witness protection programs.
These days, the flagrant violations of self-proclaimed fashionistas abound with creativity. Year round flip flops, daytime pajama pants, sweat gear worn by people who never see a gym, clothes that clearly fit a few dead presidents ago, and the like. You have your own list.
Are these assessments fair? And if the European and Japanese everyday fashion aesthetics, just for examples, are better public design, how could we help raise our fashion consciousness to these standards?
