No, Blair Waldorf has not worn cat ears, they are decidedly not the new headband trend. I mean dress up every day except not as a slutty sexy cat, but as the person you want to be seen as. Personal style, aka the clothes you wear, mater, a lot. People judge you based on the way you look, and while I don’t advocate judging based on what type of body is underneath the clothes, I am offering a ringing endorsement to judge or more importantly make inferences about people based on what they decide to put on their body.
Think of it this way; if you wear a janitor’s uniform people will infer you are a janitor, if you wear a Bear’s jersey people will infer you are a Bears fan, if you are wearing last nights clothes people will infer you didn’t make it home the previous night, and so on. So why do Madison residents not realize that wearing a Hollister T-shirt makes you look like you’re still trying to fit in at high school? Why don’t we see that wearing the same sweats/socks and Adidas sandals look daily makes you look like you don’t care, and not in a sexy “too cool for school way,” in a “between tooth brushes” kind of way.
Yes, some days my appearance says, “It’s 6 a.m. and I am not a morning person,” or “being warm is more important than being identified as a female” or “please, please notice I am a female” not every day is a home run, and that’s fine. However, it seems like every day either residents of Madison are saying, “I ran out of napkins,” or they have no idea that their appearance has such a loud message. Know that everyone who sees you makes a judgement, and consider if that judgement is inline with who you are or who you want to be.
So Madison I come to you with the humble mission to bring you this amazing opportunity of personal expression and creativity that is fashion. I want to teach you how to look like you know what day of the week it is, and I want you to just see how amazing fashion is even if you aren’t a tall skinny or an heir(ess). I far from expect Tommy Ton to be snapping street style on University, but if I never have to see a man’s nipples in the library again I will be more than satisfied. To get me started, dudes, cut off shirts that show your nipples are never ok, and on a bigger scale, cut off shirts? I guess they are minimally acceptable if you are currently exercising, like don’t even wear that to and from the gym if you can help it.
Seeing as, I’m giving advice about cutoff shirts we all know I’m not a fashion critic yet, but I’m aspiring and I definitely read more blogs/magazines/internet than all of your fashion ignorants out there. If you are struggling with a fashion dilemma in Madison please send it my way at marks3@wisc.edu and I will give you some gentle guidance every Wednesday.
