[Cyzyk]

The UDress Fashion Event, entitled Collision, happened the other day, Saturday the 18 to be precise.

Several hundred people showed up to look at clothes-horses parade up and down a stage. Clothing. Fashion. These words are synonymous with massive multibillion dollar industries. In addition to being large, these industries are completely excessive.

Consider the shoe, or what is more often encountered, the pair of shoes. These range in price from twenty to several hundred dollars. Mine are towards the low end, around fifty. A good leather shoe with velcro can't be gotten cheaper than that, but is comfortable and durable. Assuming I depreciate that over four or five years, I'd say ten to twelve bucks a year for the pleasure of being adequately shod is a decent value. I saw people parading about in high heeled shoes I was told were extremely uncomfortable, clearly less than sturdy, and provided virtally no protection from cold or wet. Such footwear had an estimated value of $200.

What I had begun as a venture in fixing spelling and grammar errors for a (very) small fashion magazine became an escalating abuse of my ethics of modern economy and efficiency. When Cyzyk promises to do a thing, he does it as well as he can do, come hell or high water. I did what I could to help them set the show up, then spent the time of the actual show half a block away pondering the exchange rate on thirty pieces of silver. Admittedly I only betrayed ethics, not morals, but I very much doubt it was worth a can of warm root beer.

I am now developing an idea for an extrapolitical organization bent of ushering in the new world order. Curiously, it does not involve thousand dollar handbags.

[Chyld]

Fashion is a fucked up thing, ra ra ra, too easy a target in my opinion. As long as I'm fine with what I'm wearing, I can't give much more of a monkeys.

Which is crap, since all my shoes have practically fallen apart, and I don't own enough trousers.

[Vesuvius]

I am now developing an idea for an extrapolitical organization bent of ushering in the new world order. Curiously, it does not involve thousand dollar handbags.

Hmmm, does it instead involve the Illuminati?

[SimeSublime]

Fashion is something so disgustingly ugly that we have to change it every six months.

[Otal Nimrodi]

Probably a good hundred or so, eh?

[Emu]

so, if people want to wear ridiculous shoes that cost them two hundred dollars, that's their problem. I mean, I'll laugh at them, but that's still their problem.

[Slade]

Chyld: You only don't have enough pairs of pants if you have less than two pairs. Otherwise, you have too many! My shoes are wearing down, but have a good year or two left in them!

Fashion is quite silly. Give me a pair of jeans and a non-eyesore (or excessively eyesore) t-shirt, and I'm happy.

[Emu]

PANTS!!!