Jeans has been apart of Americans culture for quite some time now. Everyone we know or once knew wore jeans at some point in their lifetime. Our society has been so overwhelmed on materialistic things that we not only worry about jeans, we worry about what kind and how we wear them. Their once was a time when people wore their jeans rolled up at the bottom. People wore their jeans in all kinds of ways, ripped, baggy, patchy, tight, and even over sized.
When I was in grammer school the style back then was baggy clothes. The way society was if you didn't have baggy jeans or didn't sag them you wasn't cool. Their was this boy who walked in the classroom the second week after school started. We all knew he was different and was obviously from somewhere else because of the way he dressed. He came into the class with jeans that had furry patches in random spots on the jeans. My friends and I made fun of this kid because we never seen anything like that and we thought it was wierd.
One thing that I started to admire about him was that he wasn't afraid to be himself just because society denied him and his way of dressing. This became an everyday thing for him, he always came in with furry things on his jeans and sometimes shirts. He said he stitched everything together. In other words it was his creation. I thought that was pretty tight and after that me and him became pretty cool. But then after a few months in my school things started to change.
Reggie began to dress like everyone else and talking like us aswell. You can tell he was just trying to fit in. But what he fail to realize is that by him fitting in that didn't make us respect him more, that just made us accept him more. We respected the fact that he was different and he didn't do what everyone else did. When reggie began to act like everyone else and dressing like everyone else, he was accepted but, no one respected him. He was like a tag along, a send off, a want to be.
Devonte, I really like your perspective on the subject of individuality here, and it was creative to use jeans as the catalyst. Like you, I also have a lot more respect for people that aren't afraid of being themselves, whatever that may be. It's a shame that people feel they need to fit into a certain mold because of the people around them. Looking back at my early school days, I always gravitated toward people that were comfortable and not afraid to be themselves. I've made many lasting friendships that way. I can also relate because it sucks when you see those people change with the times. It seems many of the people I grew up with lost that kid within them.
ReplyDeleteI can relate to this post because a friend a I would always be looked at weird in high school for the things we wore. We both enjoyed fashion and her and i would always go thirfting. We would plan weeks where we would wear certain decades or eras of clothing. I have always been a 90s lover and she loves neon and track jackets. People always talked about us, but we just said they were jealous because they knew they couldn't pull off what we were wearing lol.
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