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Elliott should lighten up. If the president can dress up like a fighter pilot, why can't the rest of us wear costumes on Halloween? We all need a break, and if it means going back to childhood, that's O.K. It was probably the last time most of us felt secure. ROBERT E. MILLER II Saugatuck, Mich...
...occupation of Iraq. At a similar moment, in the early 1960s, when the front lines of the cold war had spread from Germany to the Congo and Vietnam, John F. Kennedy announced his support for an augmented counterinsurgency force-and gave those soldiers real panache by allowing them to wear headgear frowned upon by the traditional military: green berets...
Perhaps this is the common downfall of the English major. I still wear the shirt—it’s comfortable, and it fits better than most of the t-shirts I own. And I still think there’s much rich irony to be had, although perhaps in unexpected ways. But I have modified my views on style a bit since that dinner conversation...
...still believe that what we wear is an important choice (although my appearance lately may seem to contradict that opinion, thanks to my course schedule this semester). I’ve come to see, though, the limitations of clothing as communication. The idea, however attractive and fun it may sound, that we can view our clothes as a means of forging identity, as a way of expressing our complex personalities to the world, tends to fall short in practice. Style may gesture towards an affinity for a particular group or culture, but the goal of truly individual expression gets swallowed...
...quite ready, however, to give up on my clothes and view them as nothing more than practical necessities. I like to develop relationships with what I wear. Clothes are what we live in, and when I’m breaking in a new sweater, making it my own, I like to think of the Irish patterns I used to knit when I was younger. I read with fascination about the history of these cable patterns: each one belonged to a particular clan. They wore these patterns not to much to display their family identity—although doubtless that...