November 27, 2005
The jk Still Loves The Manolo
Most of you know me, and know that fashion is not a huge priority for "the jk."
Virginia Postrel's "The Substance of Style" changed my business attitudes sharply. And made me realize that I should change my slovenly nature.
More importantly, I have always belittled the vain. While the shallowly vain deserve it, I now realize that part of my over-arching philosophy is to accept the bounty of this great earth, and the affluence that our freedom has provided.
Who says it best? Today, it's definitely The Manolo as he covers Black Friday:
1) Everyone has the right to be super fantastic. The Manolo he is the proud and strong believer in the personal freedoms, in the ability of the autonomous individual to dress in manner he or she desires (even if the manner chosen it is awful).2) Manolo loves the Capitalism! Nothing is more worthy of the ridicule than the fashion sense of the dictators, politburos, autocrats, and tyrants. For the example, the most horrible, deadening, life-sucking piece of the fashion ever invented, it is the Mao suit, for it reduces the individual to the mere cog in the ideological machine. Happily we live in the system in which the marketplace it is free to deliver to the peoples the beautiful clothes, enabling each individual to dress in the manner he or she chooses.
Of course, I'm wearing a Sam's-Club-purchased Broncos sweatshirt today. Hey, we're 9-2!
Hat-tip: Insty