Properly dressed Wrote:
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> Amid all the marches and protests for social
> justice that took place over the summer in
> America, every day since George Floyd was killed
> while in police custody on May 25, two protests
> stood out: the thousands dressed in white who
> thronged Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn in support of
> black trans lives; and, farther south, the
> thousands gathered in Columbia, S.C., “fully
> adorned in their Sunday best,” according to one
> of the organizers of that city’s Million Man
> March for racial justice.
>
> They wore suits in bright red, shell pink, dove
> gray and burgundy; jewel-toned ties and plaid bow
> ties; striped button-up shirts and crisp white
> ones. Sundresses and tulle dresses and sleeveless
> silk tops. And they were gussied up on purpose.
>
> From its inception, the march organizers had
> specified: “Come in dress attire please.” The
> point being, said Leo Jones, who came up with the
> idea for Columbia’s Million Man March, to
> “reframe the narrative and build a sense of joy
> in our community to see us looking so well, and
> marching with such pride.”
>
> Almost every protest movement has its visual
> signifiers: images etched in the collective memory
> that crystallize the causes for which they were
> fought. The white dresses of the suffragists and
> the women’s rights movements. The neat black
> suits and white button-up shirts of the original
> civil rights protests. The Black Panthers in
> leathers and turtlenecks. The followers of Mahatma
> Gandhi in Gandhi caps and khadi shirts. The
> sans-culottes of the French Revolution and the
> yellow vests of the French revolt centuries
> later.
>
> But the current moment, in part because of its
> extraordinary reach and multiracial, multinational
> dimensions, as well as the fact it has been
> organized largely over social media without a
> strategic centralized body, has been notably
> diffuse. As Robin Givhan wrote in The Washington
> Post, “There’s no cohesion in the look of the
> marching multitudes.”
>
> They have been resplendent in the uniform of no
> uniform.
>
> Richard Ford, a professor at Stanford Law School
> focused on civil rights and the author of the
> upcoming “Dress Codes: Crimes of Fashion and
> Laws of Attire,” wrote “there’s a tension
> in this moment reflected in questions around dress
> code, and to what extent do we want to tear down
> the system or to what extent do we want to reform
> it.”
>
> Yet, said Eddie M. Eades Jr., another organizer of
> the South Carolina event, “iconography
> matters.”
>
> And what both the march in Brooklyn and the march
> in South Carolina suggest is that the iconography
> of the current upheaval is beginning to evolve and
> coalesce.
>
> In other words, the BLM Movement in New York and
> South Carolina cared enough to look presentable
> when representing a cause, the clowns at the
> Capitol didn't even think to present themselves
> well. This privileged white class chose to not
> make presentable dress a requirement, or ignored
> its usefulness in getting credibility for their
> message. They dressed like thugs, wearing
> "comfortable clothing," suited not for
> representing a political debate, but more apt for
> a looting TV's during a power black out.
>
> They ultimately acted accordingly.
>
> Their message was dismissed by the American
> people.
>
> My freshman year of university in a dank Scottish
> hills dorm was full of convivial mass drinking at
> night, and awful tidy up the next morning. My
> second year we had a welcome back party to start
> the first trimester. We did something different
> for this soirée and required a dress code to
> attend. Jackets and ties for the lads, and
> dresses for the lasses. We had a great party, and
> in the morning there was very little to do in
> regards to tidying up. People when well dressed
> behave themselves, use the waste baskets, try not
> to spill, have better eating habits, and respect
> those around them who don similar
>
> I cannot give credence to those who stormed the
> Capitol. I cannot juxtapose their motive with
> motivation of the clean shaven with fresh hair
> cuts, turtle neck and grey jacket wearing
> Panther's political message of the 1960's. I can
> only compare them to the slugs who terrorized
> Birmingham streets at night (Who Jeremy Clarkson
> called "hoodies"), just a few summers ago.
>
>
> Dipatched from SoHo, London. It's bedtime chaps.
And your women know how to protest. Looking good here, love!
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