Saelune said:
As one of the people critical of the hair style...who cares? I mean, who cares that people care? If they genuinely like it, and aren't just a fashion sheep, then they wont care if I hate it. Just as my own personal style doesn't appeal to everyone, and I don't care, as long as I like it.
I don't know.. I care when people actively dislike me as a person over something as trivial as my hair or clothes. True, I care mostly in the sense that I don't want to have to waste my life on people who are that fucking insecure, which I suspect is probably part of why I've always gravitated towards dressing in ways which tend to sort the wheat from the chaff, so to speak. But I can still dislike and criticise the annoying tenancy to be an overly judgemental ****.
I mean, the problem with "making your own fashion style" is that it's really hard to do. If you're buying clothes from a shop, at least a shop which is easily accessible, you're not making your own fashion style.
I'd go so far as to sat that people who claim to be making their own fashion style pretty much never are, they're either people who claim not to care about fashion (while still inexplicably dressing the same way as their friends and people they admire) or they think that ironically wearing a T-shirt referencing a kid's show from the 90s somehow makes them super unique because surely they're the only person who has thought to do that (they aren't).
Saelune said:
I think the people critical of the critical here, are a bit hyperbolic. That said, fashion says something. People with certain styles tend to have certain interests. Not always guaranteed, but I bet the people with the hairstyle in the OP wouldn't really enjoy my company, or me theirs. But if I met someone who I got along with, and had that awful hair style, it wouldn't really matter.
I think the fact that you assume that is probably more indicative that you wouldn't get on with them than their hair will ever be.
I mean, I've been through the goth scene. I went through all the bullshit of thinking that clothing choice or hair expressed something deep about you and that only people who dressed like you could possibly understand you or share interests with you, and you know what.. it's kinda horseshit. Clothes are clothes. Hair is hair. They say nothing about you as a person, only your actions and expressed opinions do that. If you treat people like shit over clothes and hair, then you're a shitty person no matter what you're wearing.