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At some point in all of us non-glasses- wearers' lives, we wished we needed glasses. Just cause it'd be cool to get to wear them like, once a week for fun. However, something about the social stigma of showing up at school with glasses that everyone knew we didn't reeeeeally need kept us sane. Unfortunately, at some point in the last 3 years, we collectively gave up on this as a society and now not only do people wear glasses they don't need, but the bigger more hideous looking the better.
Nobody looks back at high school yearbook pictures of cats in the 80's and thinks, "Damn those glasses looked good... My dad's old pair are around here somewhere, now if only I could just pop a set of fake plastic lenses in, I'm set!"
They are a scandal waiting to happen AGAIN. Except this time we can't even blame it on an era, or more importantly fallback on necessity, it's just mass lameness.
The confusion here has been percolating for about 3 years on this one but when I don't have anything else to talk about, these things come out. Maybe the usual influx of hours upon hours of free time in Europe brought it on - I have insane amounts of time to peruse style blogs and feel intermittently inspired, but also about 99% more inclined to want to buy things, and at least 50% uglier.
Style blogs are the new black. I mean, they're the new fashion magazines. Except now regular people have no excuse that these are just models whose job it is to look good. Instead, style bloggers are regular people who just look that good everyday. Or don't look that good... or are just really vain but we won't talk about that. (Although, I guess to post pictures of what you look like everyday for people to comment on - aka tell you how good you look - has to involve vanity on some level. Kinda like the whole "If a tree falls in a forest and there's nobody there to hear it..." thing, does a style blog really exist if there's nobody there to comment on the outfit to tell you how good you look?)
Regardless, at the end of the day these people aren't wearing mismatched socks, an ASU volleyball alumni t-shirt and basketball shorts so I can't really hate. Even though I sound like I am.
For a second there I contemplated starting a 2nd blog called "I Wear Sweats To Work" inspired by that lifestyle. It would contain features along the lines of "Today I wasn't feeling very inspired about my outfit for practice but then I realized nobody gives a crap. I threw on a headband, changed my shoelace and I'm loving the unexpected pops of color".
Ultimately, I decided even I wouldn't want to waste minutes of my life looking at that, so it's been killed.
Also, having read that I'm contemplating killing this blog... thoughts?
5 comments:
What? How would we keep up the randomness of your life?
Killin the blog??????? Its one of the only ones thatwhen I see a new post has been added I know I will get a good laugh from.
defs a fat NO to the kill on the blog, and a fo' sho for creating your I wear sweats to work. We could all pitch in and I'll even throw in a "crew sock or high sock, or ankle sock today?"
Okay, I am reading this during conference, or more trying not to read it. I will look down, catch a sentence and start laughing! I can't help it, this is amazing! I would read your blog if I didn't know you it is so awesome!
first of all: no to killing the blog.
second of all: when you spoke of the upcoming "crutches" fad, did you think to include massive knee braces under lulu sweats on the dance floor at the club? cause i've been there. and it works.
third of all: UNCONDITIONAL
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