KEEPS: Fashion: Regret Everything
“Fashion is a dangerous road to go down. Anybody who is going to have children later in life had best not be too fashionable because the photos will come back to haunt them.”Graydon Carter in the Wall Street Journal, who continues “I think the absence of socks on men…
“Fashion is a dangerous road to go down. Anybody who is going to have children later in life had best not be too fashionable because the photos will come back to haunt them.”Graydon Carter in the Wall Street Journal, who continues “I think the absence of socks on men wearing suits and brogues is a problem. They’ll live to regret that.”
I’m a fan of Graydon Carter’s work at Vanity Fair, but the truth is I would probably never want to dress like him.
The same goes for Glenn O’Brien, who’s written a great book called “How to Be A Man” (Which I highly recommend).
Glenn questions why a man would ever wear a black suit outside of a black tie event or funeral. I question why I would ever want a navy suit if I don’t plan to sit in a cubicle for the rest of my life.
“Classic” styles are still affected by the fashion of the times. And Graydon strikes me as a man that would probably advise me not to get sleeve tattoos or wear sneakers past the age of 16.
I would go mad trying to make decisions based on what I think I would regret 40 years down the line. And I don’t think my world will end if my children find the photo of me with an afro perm when I was 19 and laugh.
In the wise words of actor Zachary Scott,
“As you grow older, you’ll find the only things you regret are the things you didn’t do.”
And in the wise words of me,
“Don’t take style advice from people you wouldn’t want to dress like. Myself included.”
(Source: putthison, via peternyc)