One of my worst qualities is that I’m not a very confident guy, and this is reflected in how I dress myself. I don’t know anything about what is good or bad in clothing or fashion, which is probably the direct result of being colorblind. To keep things simple for me, all of my clothes are very plain and boring and are either black, white, gray, or blue. Combine my boring wardrobe with my boring haircut and generally boring countenance and you have yourself one boring-looking dude.
I’m a boring, non-confident dude.
However, it’s a good thing that I don’t have to be particularly creative when I dress up for work. I don’t have a uniform, but I do have to wear a shirt and tie (which is kind of like a uniform, I suppose). I currently rotate through a set of seven or eight dress shirts of varying colors and styles, and I have accompanying pants and ties that have been pre-approved (by friends, sales associates, baristas, strangers, etc.) to match my shirts. But while my work wardrobe is fairly idiot-proof, there are two shirts that I prefer more than the others. I have no idea why, but these two shirts make me look absolutely phenomenal, and whenever I wear them to work I exude confidence into the stratosphere. I don’t understand John W. Nordstrom.
I’m certain that most people would agree that what you wear can affect your confidence and, conversely, your confidence can affect what you wear. People who are confident about their bodies are more likely to wear tight clothes that accentuate their figures. However, this standard seems to be thrown out the window every year for Halloween. Over the past twenty years Halloween has slowly evolved from a day where kids can get candy to an excuse for adults to get drunk. It has also inexplicably become a day for women to dress slutty and not feel guilty about it (slutty angels, slutty devils, slutty girl scouts, slutty nurses, etc.). As a man, it would be weird of me to object to this trend, but there is something about this that kind of bothers me. It’s not only the women who have nice figures who dress skimpy for Halloween, but women who normally don’t dress skanky seem to like to dress less on Halloween, too. It seems that many women who were ashamed of their bodies for 364 days of the year suddenly all strip down for October 31. Sometimes this is good, but sometimes it’s like watching a train wreck. Now, I’m not going to make fun of fat women who do this because they have every right to dress like sluts if they want to. It certainly takes a good amount of confidence to dress like a whore, and if you’re proud of your body (which is good) then you have every right to show it off if you want to. But, I don’t understand why they have to wait for Halloween to do this. I mean, if they’re really proud and confident about their bodies, then shouldn’t they dress like sluts all year long? Why wait for a kid holiday like Halloween?
We should probably give Halloween back to the kids.
