Monday, September 01, 2008

A Nation of Slobs

University of Notre Dame associate professor Linda Przybyszewski wants people to dress better.
Przybyszewski doesn't think dressing up means dressing slutty, which she says too many women do today. She attributes that trend to the "red carpet'' effect, where movie stars before the Oscars try to attract photographers' attention by wearing strapless, revealing gowns that are inappropriate for most occasions ("I was rather appalled to see an off-the-shoulder communion dress in a suburban Chicago church this summer'').

As for guys, "most of my students are wearing T-shirts and shorts or T-shirts and jeans," she says. "In colleges in the 1950s, young men wore ties and sport coats.''

And should they really wear flip-flops? "Men's bare toes, I don't find very attractive. I don't know why I should have to look at them,'' she says.
Somebody please tell Linda that if the younger generation is rejecting the false facade of chic clothing, that reflects well upon their ant-materialistic attitudes. And get her to a nudist resort. She'll have to deal with more than just naked toes.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Although I am a nudist I do in fact support this idea. Clothing when worn does have social value attatched to it and todays value is well very low. As a college student it is painfully obvious that todays lazy fashions of college students do not represent rejection of older values rather it represents that students not only do not take themselves seriously, but also their education. Clothes do affect the situation and when a female is sitting in a class wearing a shirt that says "slut" across the chest one has to wonder if she is really becoming more educate or if she is just buying a degree.