Do you friends dress the way you do?
...ess. They told me that they wouldn’t stop being their friend, but eventually their friendship would fade further away. “Why would your friendship fade away,” I asked. They told me that it would weaken because they wouldn’t relate with one another. Our clothes help people understand who we our. When we wake up in the morning we put on what best suits our everyday activities. You wouldn’t put on a shirt with holes in it or a pant that has loose strings and missing pockets if you were going to a business meeting. We don’t do this because of the impact that our appearance is giving to those who are viewing us. We want people to understand how we feel through what we wear. Not everyone is born with the gift of gab, so we try to let our clothes do the talking for us. Our clothes not only have an impact on those around us, but ourselves as well. When we are going somewhere we expect our clothes to hide some of the physical attributes that we don’t want to be seen. Someone who is real thin will sometimes put on something baggy or thick in order to hide the fact that they are slender. We often try to use our clothes as an escape goat. When a person doesn’t look our way or find us attractive, we usually blame it on what we are wearing and not who we are, but some would argue that who we are is determined. By the way we dress. I agree with that statement, but we still cannot hide the fact that we may be over weight or just not appealing to those around us no matter what we have on. Sometimes we need to take time out of our daily lives and stop dressing for other people and dress for ourselves. I believe that the impact our clothes have on us should be much stronger then it is for those who view us. If we do not feel good about ourselves, or what we have on, then how do we expect others to feel towards us? How can we truly think that people around us will feel any differently then we do? We can’t, and shouldn’t expect anything more from anyone else. Why do we judge people by the way we are dressed? We judge them because sometimes this is all we have to go on. Although many of us say we do not judge a book by its cover, we can’t help reading between the lines. I ...