I think OP was focused more on the point that it’s obvious from their attire that people are wearing clothes they haven’t washed or ironed in days.
You don’t need to wear dress clothes to look good, but it helps. A general rule is that clothes looks nicer when they’re fresh.
It sounds more like he's referencing being well dressed and reminiscing back to the days when everyone wore a suit, for example.
Fact is most people will not benefit at all from this. Back then how you dressed would greatly impact your reputation and your career. Today, thanks to mass immigration from the left, the vast majority of people are going to make the same whether you dress nicely or dress like a slob.
Actually some of the most well-dressed people I see in day to day life are either complete dorks or materialistic AF. And the cancer of materialism has it's roots in the early to mid 1900s that OP is likely reminiscing about, so that's not very surprising.
Mindless consumerism isn't something to aspire to. Going back to the root of our dysfunction and the root of corporate America really isn't going to help the situation. It was a tool to control the masses and replace our culture and religions with products and services. Obsession with appearance created the shallow worldview that most Americans to this day still have. The most down to earth people today are the ones with worn out boots and torn up jeans (one of three pairs they actually own).
I get what you mean, and I can totally relate to your point on most of those people being small-minded and materialistic.
Still, it is nice to reminisce about the days where people had pride in what they wore. As you said, multiculturalism has fucked that for us, because it’s apparently racist to expect muds not to look like shit, lmao.
VERY WELL SAID!!! I agree completely!
the vast majority of people are going to (treat you) the same whether you dress nicely or dress like a slob
As it should be. The only reason to treat someone differently based on their clothes is if you mistake wealth for class, honor, or morals.
When I see wealthy privileged kids I think of Hunter.
You can tell yourself that all you want and still won't be true. Clothes make the man (and woman). It has nothing to do with imagining "materialism" is the cause. It's social respect and is rewarded.
Many of the most mindless consumers wear nothing but old t-shirts and torn jeans. "Corporate America" as you put it, has their best consumers brainwashed into believing life lived in a hog trough and sty are respectable. Instead of clean homes, healthy families and tidy clothes, consumers wallow in piles of useless tech toys, volumes of digital nothingness and acquire "virtue" via an electric car filled with trash. They're not "down to earth" they're depressed and suicidal
That's probably the dumbest take I've heard in a long time. You're effectively arguing that simple living is the real consumerism and "Keeping up with the Joneses" is red-pilled. Tesla owners wear worn out jeans and old clothes... Gosh you're dumb. I live in a liberal area full of wealthy snooty liberals. There is a Tesla dealership right up the street. It is NOT homeless looking people with messy houses buying these cars, mind-numbingly retarded take. "Keeping up with the Joneses" originates in the early 1900s when people dressed and acted exactly as how you describe. Those are the people buying these cars and they look down on the people who have lived here for generations. The people with torn up shirts, old clothes and messy houses. Every time they drive by they're thinking "I can't wait until the rifraf is permanently expelled". Blue collar workers with junk yards who wear overalls every day who are overwhelmingly conservative. You are honestly something else.
I haven't ironed in decades. If you pull your clothes out of the dryer while they are still hot and get them hung up, you will very rarely need to iron.
Get them before they are completely dry too.
Same here, the only time I iron is when my shirt pocket flap gets out of line, or my collar decides to go rogue. Otherwise hanging clothes works. Also in a pinch, such as a hotel that has no iron, you can hang them by the shower and turn the shower on really hot for a while and the steam will help remove the wrinkles.
I've done this too. Hotel showers are awesome at getting stupid hot.
Well then I guess I'm the weirdo for putting fresh creases in my shirts and slacks after each wash.
The clothes today are wash-and-wear. Back then, clothes were untreated wool or cotton and looked rough unless cared for. The introduction of nylon and rayon and orlon changed the absolute need for ironing. Orlon? https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1990/06/13/so-long-orlon/b3eee7f2-a132-44d6-9063-2929305af711/
>I haven't ironed in decades. If you pull your clothes out of the dryer while they are still hot and get them hung up, you will very rarely need to iron.
I haven't ironed in like ever. If you pull your clothes off the floor and put them on, you will never need to wash again!
...until you actually press a shirt or pants and look at it next to an un-pressed one, even hot out of the dryer.
You haven't seen one of your articles of clothing pressed in decades, so you probably don't remember.
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