Unfashionable Summer

Hello Everybody. I have something to say about how people dress in the summertime. I don’t know if you have traveled by air lately. But I was stuck at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport and I had time to sit and just look at people passing by and most of them looked bad.

I want to be comfortable like anyone else while traveling on a plane. I understand the desire to shed suits and ties and dresses and heels, but I think the traveling public has taken casual, way too far.

I want to start with the men. I know I’m generalizing but a majority were in tank tops and shorts with hairy arms, hairy legs and hairy backs on display, and a gazillion tattoos amidst the fur on their bodies. And you could hear them clomping down the concourse, slap, slap, their naked feet in rubber flip flops. Not a pretty sight. There was a sea of baseball caps, baseball caps everywhere. I always thought they looked best on baseball players. A couple of macho men sported straw cowboy hats and I don’t think they were flying to Wyoming.

The ladies did not escape my prying eyes. Like the men they had parts of their bodies exposed for all to see.  There were teenage and college-age girls wearing short shorts and you could see their butt cheeks hanging out.  And hanging out in front of women of many ages, were “the girls.” Too much of the girls was hanging out.  Belly buttons and love handles, better left unseen, were poking out from under tube tops and cropped shirts. Let me not forget the plus-size women squeezed into leggings so tight they seemed they would burst at any moment.

I’m not beyond criticism. You probably hate this colorful blouse I am wearing. But I can hardly wait for colder weather when everybody has to cover themselves up to stay warm. Everybody will look a whole lot better.

See you next time.

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