look, im all for courageous fashion efforts, im all about gaga, but some themes of clothing are not okay with me and should be outlawed. Yesterday, or the day before, i cant remember but it doesnt matter it would be equally as traumatizing, i went to juicy green with deb and sam and her friends julia and anne for some after-lunch fro yo. It was a relatively small space which suffocated me with one wardrobe atrocity after another. i really though someone was playing a joke on me and i wish i had taken a picture. now the lineup, respectivley: first, athletic wear girl in an itsy bitsy demin neon green tennis skirt with pleats and nikes. Then, tacky christmas sweater lady in the corner matching her husband with a bunch of fro yo all over herself. And who could forget, miss Im gonna match rainbow plaid wool sweater with a fuzzy leopard print bag, green kahaki pants, and sneakers. at this point its official, im in hell. but lets not leave out the flip flops in winter brigade and their ever so stylish friends: the uggs and pajamas club. Unless they were dying of some winter sickness and forcefully shuttled to the fro yo shoppe, then they have no excuse. yeesh. I dont mean to be snobby, only to have standards, you cant wear pjs out, everyone else has to get dressed, nothing makes you that special. Its one thing to be differnt, its another to look like a slob, the difference is effort. There are certain things that seemingly indicate survival, but really, when cultivated surpass merely this. Like food, junk food is one thing, and for sure everyone should have access to good fair clean food, but some things that i read the ingredients on i cant comfortably put in my body, like wise, some things i cannot comfortably put on my body. Im not too good for essentials, i just realize that to treat them with respect improves the quality of life and breeds happiness. I dont mean to say that these are bad people or anything, its more for there sake, i just think that your appearance is more important that people give it credit for. Now you cant judge a person on their appearance but you can judge their self worth, pending that they have the resources, I do realize that some people in the world do not have access to good clean clothes or food, all the more reason to respect your acess to them. There is a certian respect that is involved in taking something that you must do for survival and making it worth something. Respect for yourself and respect for your good fortune. And just to be clear, respecting yourself, your body, and your appearance is NOT at all necessarily expensive, it does not require an excess of money, only consideration. Its just, anything worth doing is worth doing well, this is not selfishness or excess, it is health and it is care. I just think that without the need to strive to ensure quality and to seek beauty and revolution and novelty, then we have nothing but survival, and honestly, without beauty and intricacy id rather not survive. What is the world without a perfect creme brulee, and chanel and art museums, what is life without wonder? Its not snobbery, its excellence, excellence that dictates and feeds every desire to be better that will ever exist beyond it. It makes being human worth it i think.

That being said.

i love you all.

j