12:36 PM,  Colleen Shirazi said...

Nice... I like the grey one better though. I realize it's three times the price, but, I dunno. It's more youthful looking.

Well, there is utility in clothing, and there is anti-utility. Utility is something that "trickles up" because it starts with clothing that has a specific function...blue jeans, painters' pants, tee shirts, boots, sneakers, and so forth...the underlying function becomes the fashion.

Anti-utility would be something like skirts, high heels, long fingernails, white-collared shirts, stockings, and so forth...something that specifically keeps you from doing certain kinds of work...by wearing it, everyone knows you don't mop floors for a living.

In between I suppose there are items that don't fit either description but I tend to think first in terms of utility. Which I think is more of an American thing than a European thing. I'm not saying I wear only utilitarian clothes, it's more that I'm conscious of it.