One wouldn't expect, say, a crisply ironed shirt or razor-sharp creases in a slob's clothing. I saw a guy I'm a red basketball jersey (sick a sickening garment that needs to stop being worn by non athletes) and lime green shorts. Very good point. Oscar Wilde once said, "You can never be overdressed or overeducated.". It's interesting what you noted about necktie supplies Nice column, Pam. Whatever happened to wearing an appropriate tuxedo to formal events? 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. 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And to make my point, all one has to do is watch the Oscars and see how the celebrities turn up at the awards, with their goofy outfits, or with some men wearing SNEAKERS with their tuxedos. Having said that, I wholeheartedly agree with you; the absolute laziness and sloppiness of people (including, but not limited to, prospective employees) appalls me. %-). However, I've read the book "The Peter Principle," and although it was published about fifty years ago, the same practices it satirized are still being committed by the ignorant to this very day. I don't look like a slob. I hope this idiot trend of looking like slobs will eventually swing back the other way. Clothes way to tight or to small. I know I'm late. Big bellies flowed over the . (Never mind the fact the photo I used showed a woman shopping for food in the grocery store.) 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. You are exactly right. I couldn't imagine seeing Elizabeth Taylor or Cary Grant with even a small wrist or ankle tattoo, let alone being covered with the goddamn things like David Beckham (nice body, yet he's covered with these obscenities which detract from the appearance!). If I've used a photo, video, etc in one of my posts it means I really dig it! A few people also unfollowed the page. It's spring time again, and now the slobs are out en masse wearing ugly shorts, displaying their ugly, dumpy bodies and trashy tattoos. Smoking: Three homeless people from South Ferry doss houses are in Battery Park on June 6, 1941. However, I continually wonder what the hell has happened to our country, with its sham "values" and its embrace of the ugly and hideous, whether it be in fashion, bodies, attitude, politics (don't get me started about Trump!) Huh? Yesterday, a colleague of mine was grappling with a . I posted about my distaste for tattoos on the Facebook page for this blog a couple of weeks ago, along with how I feel it's a serious sign of the lack of self love people have for themselves and their bodies (and also a denial of their natural beauty.) Stop wearing shorts and T shirts in freezing weather, too. 135. News Corp is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content and other products and services. I was feeling special. I see so much women whos breast are ready to fall out and leggings to tight. It lacks style and substance; it is likely priced at ten times more than what it cost to make; and is generally indicative of a society of consumners that is hard-up financially. The accompanying photo shoot shows the comedian outfitted like a fourth grader on a sugar high. Hi Pam: Your blog has really got me going about how indecently people are appearing in public these days. The Wal-Mart slob ethic is pervasive everywhere (people of wal-Mart!) The slobs should look in the mirror to see what they look like. I couldn't agree with you more. I am a male in my early thirties who has, or at least once had, a penchant for "dressing up", before the economy crashed. Why has it become fashionable to actually want to look like a bum even when you've got plenty of moola to your name? New York Post writer Elisabeth Vincentelli's rant on the growing slob population strikes a chord. That's what I don't understand. Fat, tattooed, wearing sagging athletic shorts showing underwear. As a professional designer, I realize that at least 90% of people wouldn't know what looks good, and they need to be shown. I try to look as good as possible when out in public. Well just look how horrible their parents are today that don't even know how to raise their children right anymore these days when years ago most parents back then knew how to raise their children right. So while you can hold on to your crop tops and ratty band tees, you may also think twice about where and when you wear them. Just because they're known to millions of adorers still doesn't impress me with their grunge appeal, and doesn't enhance any fantasy about wanting to be in bed with them. They even go so far as to consider formal clothing stiff and boring. I'm 62, Navy vet, retired engineer (Computer/Electrical), have been in the IT field for 30 years, and I'm a writer and artist. She's right, by the way. The PC Police will probably be after me for saying as much. I'm a guy and I feel like you about this issue. Most are males wearing ties and coats. They have already been forgotten and more mass shootings will inevitably follow. Appearance is the first thing we all notice, and many people still do use that when making judgments about each other. Another point of contention is how everyone gets away with using profanity, whether they are politicians making a speech, or even Ken Jennings on Jeopardy, who was "bleeped out" on a recent episode. Can we assume that the USA is a decadent nation that has given up trying to maintain what was once considered a decent standard in clothing and fashion representation? Apparently this "casual Friday-and-then-some every damn day" way of dressing is a national epidemic and according to a some, a tragedy. About tattoos and piercingsI have a lady friend in Ukraine, and we've both noticed that the younger women in Eastern Europe are now following the American trend of covering themselves with tattoos and getting piercings (nose, lips, etc.) He would wear dress pants, open neck shirt and sport's jacket and was overdressed compared to everyone else who were in baggy jeans, many torn or frayed, flip flops, shorts, very sloppy looking. Even attending church now seems more like a circus than actually being in church. Obviously they pay money for all of it! I'm actually taking a little break from blogging but am already getting inspired to resume posting soon. I remember as a kid we dressed up to go out, even if it was to an A&W. This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Consider a recent story in the news about Mitchell Casado--a. working for uFly--who was fired for not dressing professionally enough. 12 Courtney Love Courtney's style has always been along the lines of grunge/alternative so the preppy pant suits and super sexy dresses were never exactly her thing. I often went beyond this basic requirement and donned a sportcoat as well. Why are so many people looking like this? and implants. All this nonsense with the jeans (mining and peasant trousers) started in the 70s with the rise of the left. Most Americans dress like absolute slobs and should be ashamed of themselves I've been fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to travel outside the US. It's truly revolting and frankly, seems dangerous--you're just asking for an infection. There are these weird stretchy spandex dresses women wear that look so terrible. The cleaner cut look will always be timeless as far as I believe. I wonder if schools shouldn't have courses in how to be respectable since there are increasing numbers of people in the U.S. that are complete slobs. Can we judge an entire country by its clothing choices? Fat people as well as very thin should not wear what they call leggings.These are tights not pants. I saw no fewer than four men who were seated at tables or booths with grungy ballcaps firmly on their heads. The human body looks better, in my opinion, when unadorned. what happened to nice variety of long and short woolen coats? Here in Europe, if a man is wearing jeans and trainers (sneakers for my US friends) and a t shirt, they won't be baggy, sloppy looking items. Its very obviousThey look pleasant and situationally appropriate. When people were invited onstage at a recent performance of Penn & Teller on Broadway, many women looked as if they had stepped out of a jazzercise class, while men ambled around in hideous cargo shorts. Who dresses down to go to the doctors office? Those cost money so its funny how none is spent on clothes yet tats get it. Kylie Jenner may have been wearing a classy Eat Me Out T-shirt, but at least she wasnt at the theater. Esquire went so far as to proclaim this "the Summer of Sleaze," pointing to celebs dressing like "high-school drug dealers." In one image, he stands there in baggy, cornflower-blue track pants with mismatched sneakers and an unzipped cycling jersey. So if someone looks like a slob, it's completely their fault. Yuck. Are these so-called famous people for real, or are they competing for the outlandish awards? I'm not sure what dressing down has to do with Trump or mass shootings. Sweat pants, yoga pants for women, t shirts - it's pathetic. I am striving to dress better every season. ), I think it repulsive when I see big ugly people wearing their "jammies" to the store, or sagging their grungy pants as if they flaunt being a lowlife. At least my friend agrees whole-hardheartedly that it's a disgusting trend (she only has a single piercing on each earlobe for an earring and no tattoos; I myself have no tattoos or piercings--don't want any). It has really become pervasive, and I won't go back to eat at a restaurant that operates this way. Sadly,so many women also do it too. How about the trashy women who wear bra tops with ugly tattoos showing? It's still ugly, however. It doesn't cost hundreds or thouands of dollars to wear clothing that doesn't look as though it functions for bedtime wear. I also own a lot of dressier clothing, which I wear when I can. What kind of a standard is that? 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. What looks best on me are a-line skirts and dresses, and flowy tunics. Their posture is better, too. Regardless, I can't stand the "let it all hang out no matter how ugly" ethos that has infected modern mankind. A slob is, to put it charitably, a person who aspires to have the energy to be merely untidy some day. Fatties with tank tops and unnecessarily huge tattoos. Most people took pride in looking their best and dressing for success. Also agree with Bill on the tie thing, at least in socal. variety. I really want a time machine,so I can go back to something betterbecause yes,things ARE getting worse. Speaking of strange body piercings, has anyone seem the disturbing trend online which may or may not be Photoshopped where people are piercing the sides of their faces and expanding the holes so that you can see their teeth? Partly this has to do with the visual erasure of style barriers. Look at TV shows, like Hawaii Five-O, past vs new series. I prefer the traditional look. 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. And if you haven't picked up on it, I am a male myself who holds these "old-fashioned" opinions. However, I do believe this condition of looking like bums seeming to have little to know pride, is all (Gov.) The status marker . This was some fifteen years ago. Adobe Stock. This is a nation of slobs, all right, and brainless, too. Nowadays, everyone wears sweatpants like cranky children who insist on wearing their pajamas out in public. Sadly, it's probably because things haven't gotten any better, but have instead become worse. It would be an impossibility of manpower and mental power. Not to mention, all the unsightly tattoos that these idiots are defacing their bodies with. Technology alone, including . I work in a hospital and the vistors and patients who come in dressed in. whatever is ghastly. It's gotten so ugly that I notice if someone is even wearing a decent pair of jeans, compared to most of the slob army out there now. Here in the U.K., unless I'm at work (I'm a military consultant), then you wouldn't catch me dead looking like most US citizens.