Wear It Anyway
When I was a kid there were certain clothes that I wanted to wear, but didn't because I knew I would catch a verbal beating from my "friends". There wasn't anything wrong with the clothes or even the label, but they were different than what my friends were used to seeing within their circles or clicks. When I grew older, I would refrain from listening to opera or classical music if I had someone else in the car with me as I knew they would mock it, and I didn't care to hear the criticism. Yesterday that called it making fun of someone. Can you imagine that? What an obscure notion, mocking someone for their preference of music. Today it is often referred to as bullying. Everywhere you look there are campaigns against bullying within the schools, "stop bullying", "stand up", and so on. The reality of bullying is this, that it will never stop because making fun of someone else due to your own insecurities has always been a part of this society, and until we can teach kids and adults alike to find more confidence in something other than their attire, appearance, or number of social media "followers/likes...bullying will always be a part of this thing called life.
They mocked me regardless of what I wore with style and then some, how I spoke, and how I walked. It did not matter if I would attempt to change in accordance with how they perceived me or with whom I hung around. They had their target, and for the moment I was in the crosshairs. Little that I said made any difference and wouldn't you know it, 20 years later people are the same. How miserable the person who delights in the condescending of others, how drab an existence, how enslaved they are in their own self-pity and grim projection of a mirrored ugliness gripping their soul tightly choking light from peering through the darkness of self-hatred and envy. I realized that their problem had nothing to do with me or my attire, but rather with themselves. They were in some kind of predicament at home or at school and their only outlet was to take it out on someone else, predicatbly it would be the person closest, and if they could get others to laugh about what they just said or who they just punched, then their rating just went up in the eyes of their "friends". It makes me wonder how different life might be for our young people if they cared less about what others thought and more about finding out who they truly are.
Do you recall when the fashion industry first started making pink polos for men? And it threw the world of insecure people into a feeding frenzy on how there must be something wrong with you if boys wear that color. The bow tie took a dirt knap for about 30 years and was then recently resurrected and once again finds itself in the limelight outside of professors in academia. In a round-a-bout way, I suppose my point is this, if they are going to mock you anyway, you might as well wear the pink polo. Some guys have the Seinfeld-like cherry hew in their cheeks to pull it off and others do not. Whip out that bow tie and try it on for size. While I would never recommend going outside of your own color palette, I would definitely try something new and see if it fits both your style and personality. If it compliments those two criteria, Vaya Con Dios. Haters gonna hate, and people gonna eat donuts, but...then again...that's just my humble opinion.