Sadly, you are right, only now we have miraculous technology instead of religion. It's interesting what you noted about necktie supplies Nice column, Pam. People at my age with several tacky tattoos, girls with half of their heads shaved, boys only wearing basketball shorts and baggy t-shirts. Never Yet Melted Why Americans Today Dress Like Slobs He had appeared regularly on CNN to discuss the missing Malaysian airliner wearing jeans and open plaid shirts, which didn't sit well with viewers, who told uFly's owner that he was "shaming Canadians" and making the country look bad to the rest of the world. Today's pop culture doesn't help, either. W, omen notice certain things when they first see a man--his eyes, his smile, his shoulders. It's rather timely that I found your article because I had commented on a post in Facebook about the same thing. And we're smart enough to know that clothes aren't that important and we can weed out women from our lives who judge us on our clothes. There are slobs all over the world, but we always have bigger expectations when it comes to a celebrity. For me, part of the appeal of going to such a restaurant (or other similar places, like the symphony) is the opportunity to dress up. It has really become pervasive, and I won't go back to eat at a restaurant that operates this way. Every time I see some eejit wearing pants that are 10 sizes too big, waistband below their butt, flaunting their boxers to everyone--I want to give them a good paddling for being slobs and see them shamed by standing on a busy street corner wearing a big sign about being a slob in public (or something to that effect). Dress well: get crap from people Dress like a slob: no one cares Just look at how trim the general American public was in the 20th century. I usually wear all black with a band tee. These teachers dress like slobs. Then there are the so-called mens suits, again, made from cheap, chinese polyester fiber with no wool. It's sad that people find flipping through Instagram more important than there own appearance. I'm actually taking a little break from blogging but am already getting inspired to resume posting soon. My husband and i go out to expensive music performances, some of them classical, and I see older people dressed just as heinously, though. But you've got to realize that we live now in an age of post-1984 surrealism and computerized fascism. More often than not, you can find nice clothing in thrift stores. No one would ever consider me overdressedor overeducated, for that matterbut if I am now regarded as well-dressed . I've copped a few comments about trying too hard and things like that which i just let wash over my head. Maybe so, but it also sums up the decadence and lack of self-respect and confusion of mores that our society is experiencing these sad days. A couple of days ago I said to my husband, am I being a snob or have people become really sloppy? Every damn time I go to a restaurant, there are numerous bozos who sit there with their idiotic caps on their hollow heads. Hi, Pam! There, a nation of slobs paraded through the crossroads of America. Ah, America in the Spring! \: Yes Pam, I think you are completely right when you say that these businesses are trying to save a dime at the expense of customer service and shave their labor costs. I'm moving to Korea, where my length doesn't exist; I can't just buy more pants. So many people here just covered in tattoos. %-). Very neat and put together. They have two children with them. What a moronic joke. Is it because they are trying to imitate little joke ass punks like Justin Bieber? Americans dress like slobs because their phones are more - Wired 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. What the hell happened? I don't look like a slob. Opinion: American Men Need to Stop Dressing Like Overgrown Toddlers They would judge you because you are not a mindless sheep buying the latest leggings at Victoria's secret or not dressing like a hipster. Then you use your finger to sign the screen! Sadly we seem to be moving right along into that direction. Why Are Male Celebrities Dressing Like Such Slobs? - WSJ A colleague who used to work at the Neue Galerie a museum housed in a former Vanderbilt mansion would see visitors in cutoffs. Maybe don't spend $5 on starbucks and $15 on a pack of cigarettes and instead go to Target or Kohls and look through the clearance racks and I bet you anything they could find something affordable. You know, older people here are mature and appropriate, while younger. Casual fashion was just starting to become socially acceptable but not allowed obscenities in public. :). This has zero to do with being poor. There was a young couple with a young child that i encountered in the elevator. Whatever happened to the saying "the clothes make the man"? Very nice post! All this nonsense with the jeans (mining and peasant trousers) started in the 70s with the rise of the left. No wonder everybody from Patti LuPone on down is complaining that nobody knows how to behave anymore: If you dress like a child, chances are youre going to act like one. Sores like HM and Zara have the nicest clothing for the same price you would pay for what you usually buy. Although that probably won't change until women stop allowing it. Some might say I'm being snooty, superficial, judgmental--and maybe even a bully for having this opinion. Fine. Annie -- I think it's a combination of several reasons: laziness, lack of pride, lack of common sense, the spilling over of casual Friday (which I never had a problem with) into places where one shouldn't be so casual. I'm an American professor in Kurdistan and even here, people when they dress casually look put-together and not unclean. I live in Fairbanks, Alaskait's just now starting to get temperatures above +40 F (this is 15 April 2022), so people are starting to wear shorts again (when you've had temperatures in the -30s F or lower for a while, anything above 0 F actually feels warm). You know,like they actually give a damn about themselves. God forbid if i choose to wear a nice casual dress shirt and even worse if i tuck it in which in my opinion looks great if its well fitted.I can't help but feel like other people seem to have no respect for their appearance particularly the young males here who regularly wear singlets with enormous arm holes, baggy graphic t-shirts, board shorts and walk around bear footed or in cheap crappy shoes.