Dress For The Best

My friend Al, a male 30-something made this comment on his Facebook today: "If young adult fashion trends continue on this path, soon all colleges will be built next to the sea: can't run a nudist beach without sand, can you?"

And I fully concur with Al - though my opinions extend beyond the college environment. Take a look around you - be it in the office, in a place of worship, in a restaurant / cafe / mamak, in a shopping mall. Don't you think people no longer have any sense of what is appropriate and what is not anymore when it comes down to their dressing?

The number of people falling into the sensibly kitted out category seem to be no longer the majority ~ I mean it would be that the fashionistas and the walking-closet disasters were the top 10th and bottom 10th percentile, with everyone else falling in between. But we appear now to be the middle 20% only!

And you would think with the Internet and so many fashion magazines and articles being easily available and affordable these days, people would be able to develop a common sense when it comes to dressing!

Perhaps every establishment should do as the churches do these days: Boldly display what is appropriate and what is not.

Perhaps then people would start wearing the right clothes THAT project the right image, NOT ONLY FOR THEMSELVES but the establishment that they represent - either by virtue of working there, or being there.

After all, the office is not the wet market, nor is it the set for Madonna's remake of her music video for Holiday or Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!