The Power of Clothing

[ebacon]

As we enter fall and change our clothes I can't help but to think back on what I learned when I wore less.

Here is a serious question. If America has a cultural dress, what does it look like? My mind is hooked on the cowboy but that is me being mentally greedy. New Mexico living also introduced me to native Indian dress and that is also ingrained in me.

The sweatpants thing that started in the 1970s, while being popular, cannot be presented to the world as our dress. Fess up.

My mom is a seamstress and we had a serious discussion about this over the summer. Our discussion happened while trying to interpret a foreign word for "cultural dress". The foreign word lost its meaning when software interpreted it as "costume".