Jacob Patterson

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NIKE AIR MAX 90 HYPERFUSE “OLYMPIC”

The Hyperfuse model of Nike’s Air Max 90 sits as one of the brand’s more popular silhouettes, and with the Olympic theme being one of Nike’s more favorite choices of late, it makes sense that we would see a combination of the two. Released alongside the Nike Air Max 95+ BB “Olympic,” this sneaker may prove to be more popular, if less linear in its design. It holds true in the same manner to the colors of the traditional Olympic flag, with red, yellow, green, blue, and black and white interspersed about the shoe. Similarly to the 95+ BB model, you can expect these sneakers to drop in plenty of time for you to pack them for your trip to London for the Games in July.

These might be my first sneaker purchase since starting my managing gig. If I can find em for under like $175 I’ll do it… I think. ahhhhhh

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Am I the only person who thinks that fashion makes dudes looks like tools. Fashion can eat it…t-shirt and jeans people! 

I strongly disagree with this.

A dispassionate approach to how you present yourself to the world outside your own head is, I would say, a waste of what might be the most personal opportunity for self-expression a person has. In The Pale King, Wallace refers to an “understanding of [oneself] as an object, a body among other bodies, something than [can] see and yet also be seen” as a concept one comes to terms with as a child, that awareness that you’re not an ethereal spirit floating through a world of flesh but an actual person just like all the other people around you. It’s this awareness that makes me want to make an aesthetic effort before I leave the house in the morning; not for others necessarily, but more as an act of self-respect. If I’m to be a body mingling with all these other bodies, I want to do the best with it that I can.

Naturally, you can choose not to subscribe to that, and of course there are days when you wanna be as innocuous as possible and jeans and a t-shirt are the best way to do that*, but fashion is a complex and multi-faceted way to express yourself. I have written before at length about why I sometimes choose to dress in a certain outdated way from the early 2000s before, and I feel that’s just one example of how fashion’s deep roots in pop culture can lead to an interesting and expressive outfit that says something not necessarily just about you, but about your attitudes and values.

It’s a big statement, and it can take a lot of guts to do something out of the ordinary, but it makes me feel good about myself and adds an element of creativity to an otherwise mundane task. Yes, it can make people look like tools if they overdo it or do it wrong, but not all fashion is silly ties and polo shirts; there’s a whole world of difference between wearing jeans and a t-shirt and simply taking the time to think about which shoes look best with the particular t-shirt you’re wearing today, or buying a backpack to go with a particular pair of jeans. I get a lot of joy out of it and - hopefully - I haven’t looked like too much of a tool going about it.

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*I actually wear black jeans and a t-shirt almost every day, but it’s what I choose to accompany that standard baseline outfit that I think pushes me over the boundary into your definition of toolishness.

First, I didn’t think about what I wrote about Mr. Halpert up there for more than the 12 seconds it took to write out my snide remark, so I’m not going to try to defend my original point (as it is indefensible, and I don’t agree with it). But I will try to identify from where my snark came from, and hopefully it will make sense.

It’s foolish to pretend that the brain and the body are not mostly unified. I understand that. But my goal as a human is to express myself through my words and my actions, not the pain that I apply to my exterior. Through my mind, and not through my body.

But to be clear, a t-Shirt and jeans would be a fashion statement, in fact, if society said it were. What fashion really is, is an attempt to understand culture (the collective belief of everyone we will run into in any given day) enough to say something we’d like to say through our exterior trimmings (haircut, clothes, tattoos, piercings, shoes.) 

This is a very hard thing to do, which is why people with “good fashion sense” are rare and, in general, extremely culturally sensitive and aware. But more broadly, it’s actually impossible. What we actually end up doing is tailoring our exterior for a certain subset of culture. People our age, people who hold similar beliefs to ours, people with similar socio-economic status, people of the same race. 

Fashion, at that point, further alienates us from people who aren’t like us. People who are dissimilar to us do not have the sub-cultural understanding necessary to decipher these exterior cues and so they end up coming to snap-judgements.

Their subconscious says “that boy looks like a tool” …or, at least, that’s what I said. They might also think “gang member” or “homeless person” or whatever. The point is that what you are attempting to express through this “most personal opportunity for self expression” is almost invariably going to be misunderstood. And it’s going to be misunderstood more frequently by people who are dissimilar to you. 

Anything that further alienates me from people who are different from me, I see as a bad thing. I do it too. To cowboys and preps and the like…I see their clothes and immediately judge the broad sub-culture they are cueing to and not the subtler cues that they are no doubt employing and certainly not the actual person that lies beneath the clothes.

Which isn’t to say that fashion doesn’t play a role and isn’t one of the very cool things about our species that makes us different and interesting. And, indeed, it’s probably the most evolutionary and broadly appreciated art form we have outside of music. But my snap judgement that Jim looked like a tool is an example of what I’m talking about. People who don’t get it judge…and I would prefer to be judged on my mind, not on my clothes.

But that’s probably just because I’m very careful about how I present myself and very afraid of being judged due to unresolved issues from my childhood. And it’s also probably because I don’t have a very good fashion sense. 

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