"Oh...you're wearing that shirt?"
This is a common enough comment made by my fiancee to me. Before you assume she is being mean or critical, let me give you a little background. My fiancee was a model for several years, a cheerleader for a while, and a very fashionable person. I am a geek. Not the kind that lives in his mother's basement, but the kind who is better with computers and technology than social trends. When I have
time to poke my head out of the computer lab, the last thing I've spent time thinking about is what I am wearing and how it looks. So when Kacie, my fiancee, asks me the question, "You're wearing that shirt?" She's sweetly, gently trying to get me to respond by asking, "How do I look? What would look good?"
The most common reason for this is that my shirt has a hole in it. From my perspective, it's a small, insignificant hole. It shouldn't really matter, it's more of a larger gap in the thread. But then, I've never really figured out where holes in clothing are appropriate and where they're not. When I was younger, if my jeans got holes in them my mother would patch them or throw them out. Suddenly, everyone was wearing jeans with holes in them. I assume to most people they looked cool, but to me they just looked old. I tried to apply this same theory to my shoes and wore them long enough they too developed holes. But that wasn't cool, everyone told me I needed new ones and celebrated when I showed up to school with a new pair.
I admit, I took it a little too far when I thought socks with holes would be cool. The first time I took my shoes off my mother roled her eyes in mild amusement and told me to go get a new pair.
But if any of you are friends with geeks, you know that when we think we've discovered a useful theory to apply to life, we run with it. Often times we're running headlong into a wall, but we won't know until a pretty girl can get our attention and help us understand better.
Which is why now, as a senior in college, my wonderful fiancee often has to say things like, "Oh...you're wearing that shirt?" and "Maybe we should get you a new shirt like that one." Because fashion is beyond people like me. For people out there like Kacie who understand fashion and have graciously allowed themselves to help us geeks know how to dress, we don't mind. If we act frustrated when you tell us to change, it's because you're contradicting our theory. Explain why we should change and we'll get it...eventually.
This is a common enough comment made by my fiancee to me. Before you assume she is being mean or critical, let me give you a little background. My fiancee was a model for several years, a cheerleader for a while, and a very fashionable person. I am a geek. Not the kind that lives in his mother's basement, but the kind who is better with computers and technology than social trends. When I have
time to poke my head out of the computer lab, the last thing I've spent time thinking about is what I am wearing and how it looks. So when Kacie, my fiancee, asks me the question, "You're wearing that shirt?" She's sweetly, gently trying to get me to respond by asking, "How do I look? What would look good?"
The most common reason for this is that my shirt has a hole in it. From my perspective, it's a small, insignificant hole. It shouldn't really matter, it's more of a larger gap in the thread. But then, I've never really figured out where holes in clothing are appropriate and where they're not. When I was younger, if my jeans got holes in them my mother would patch them or throw them out. Suddenly, everyone was wearing jeans with holes in them. I assume to most people they looked cool, but to me they just looked old. I tried to apply this same theory to my shoes and wore them long enough they too developed holes. But that wasn't cool, everyone told me I needed new ones and celebrated when I showed up to school with a new pair.
I admit, I took it a little too far when I thought socks with holes would be cool. The first time I took my shoes off my mother roled her eyes in mild amusement and told me to go get a new pair.
But if any of you are friends with geeks, you know that when we think we've discovered a useful theory to apply to life, we run with it. Often times we're running headlong into a wall, but we won't know until a pretty girl can get our attention and help us understand better.
Which is why now, as a senior in college, my wonderful fiancee often has to say things like, "Oh...you're wearing that shirt?" and "Maybe we should get you a new shirt like that one." Because fashion is beyond people like me. For people out there like Kacie who understand fashion and have graciously allowed themselves to help us geeks know how to dress, we don't mind. If we act frustrated when you tell us to change, it's because you're contradicting our theory. Explain why we should change and we'll get it...eventually.
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