Dressing Up

I HAVE DETERMINED to fill my closet with three types of clothing: camouflage fatigues, medical scrubs, and sweats. All three have in common that they are gender neutral, relatively inexpensive, comfortable, colorful, can be slept in comfortably, and when worn are conducive to exercise, except in hot weather. For hot weather, shorts, about mid thigh, not too baggy, with large pockets, and T shirts, with bright colors and clever messages, preferably without corporate advertising, preferably extolling an accomplishment, like donating blood, running a race, or competing in a tennis tournament, or perhaps commemorating an event, like a class reunion. When I was a kid, in the nineteen sixties, all T shirts were solid white, with nothing else. Improved coloring techniques have given us beautiful T shirts which fill with holes before fading. Camos I'll take in either green or tan tones. Give me a set of bright red, bright blue, light blue, and green scrubs. Sweats, the above, but include black. Further, they all three comprise a sort of uniform, and if worn by everyone, would lend an egalitarian aura to society, and dispense with the snobbishness and impracticality which accompanies dress clothing. No more suits jackets, and strips of useless cloth wrapped around one's neck. No more of this nonsense of advertising social status with clothing. Children could wear them to school, and be in a "uniform", while retaining an individual flair. My mother, a career nurse, used to go to work attired in a white dress and white cap, and she looked striking, as all nurses did back in the day. But scrubs are more practical, and offer more variety. If everyone within the white collar community cooperated, then, as the lyrics to a really existing but largely unknown song go: no more "scary guys in suits and ties, who disguise their lies, and romanticize free enterprise, and everything that money buys."...THANKS FOR READING!