Girls love clothes.
It took me literally over an hour to fold and put away all my laundry last night. Yes, I hadn’t done laundry in weeks, but that just didn’t seem normal to me. My coworker, Sara, blamed it on the fact that I’m from Long Island. I blame it on the shear fact that I’m a girl.
My friend Alan agreed, saying that, indeed, the reason I own so many clothes is because I’m a girl. He asked me how long I could possibly go without needing to wash any of my clothing. My response: over a month. This shocked him. It also surprised him that I could probably go a month without repeating an outfit. While Alan isn’t one who cares about the latest fashion trends, he is a typical guy.
The typical guy rotates through a few shirts, a few pants, some for dressy occasions, some for casual. He usually owns a pair of everyday shoes, some athletic shoes, and probably around two pairs of dress shoes—one black and one brown. He generally sticks to neutral colors throughout his wardrobe such as blacks, browns, blues, grays, greens, and sometimes a surprise splash of color added to one of these neutrals.
Of course there are exceptions with males, like my father who has polo shirts in every color Ralph Lauren ever made, more button-down shirts than he even knows he has (seriously, I went through his closet and showed him), and a closet specifically designated for shoes. Then, there’s also my friend Evan, who’s known to only wear his uniform of a blue button-down shirts and khaki pants. He deemed this suitable for every occasion, until his ex intervened and introduced him to jeans.
Female fashions are a bit trickier. The typical girl must have a shirt, a pant, a skirt, a dress, a shoe for every occasion. Plus the color possibilities are endless and therefore coordinating becomes more complicated.
I can’t tell you how many times I have gotten ready with girl friends who have agonized over which shoes to wear. I always told them, guys could care less about what’s on your feet. They’ll be too busy looking at other things. To my surprise, I recently had a (straight) guy ogle a pair of cowboy boots I was wearing. In addition, many guys have been vocal about last year’s (and unfortunately trickling into this year) UGG boot trend. Guys do seem to notice, though that is not the real reason why there are 5239502 pairs of shoes in each of our closets, it’s because we need them to match each outfit.
Jeans are easy to coordinate with, yet I own over 15 pairs of jeans, believe it or not. While you may say, but a pair of jeans is a pair of jeans, I could probably justify a reason for owning each (aside from the fact that instead of dress pants, I’m lucky enough to wear jeans to work on a daily basis). You see, there are jeans that are meant to wear with specific pairs of shoes, based on where the hemline falls, i.e., “the sneaker jeans,” “the tall boots jeans,” “the jeans to tuck into boots jeans.” Of course, there are jeans that are dressier than others, and there are the jeans that make your butt look so good in. For guys, they can get away with wearing the same pair of jeans three days in a row, and no one would say a thing—until they started to smell.
Maybe I’m just justifying why I had three overstuffed laundry hampers last night. Maybe my clothes-horse ways were just inherited by my atypical fashion-conscious father, who filled more than 4 closets in his house solely with his clothing. I think I can speak for most girls when I say that there’s more to a girl getting dressed in the morning than picking out the cleanest shirt in the closet. We put thought into our outfits. We may try on eight combinations before we settle on what we walk out the door with. Like Alan said, it’s what we do, because we’re girls.
My friend Alan agreed, saying that, indeed, the reason I own so many clothes is because I’m a girl. He asked me how long I could possibly go without needing to wash any of my clothing. My response: over a month. This shocked him. It also surprised him that I could probably go a month without repeating an outfit. While Alan isn’t one who cares about the latest fashion trends, he is a typical guy.
The typical guy rotates through a few shirts, a few pants, some for dressy occasions, some for casual. He usually owns a pair of everyday shoes, some athletic shoes, and probably around two pairs of dress shoes—one black and one brown. He generally sticks to neutral colors throughout his wardrobe such as blacks, browns, blues, grays, greens, and sometimes a surprise splash of color added to one of these neutrals.
Of course there are exceptions with males, like my father who has polo shirts in every color Ralph Lauren ever made, more button-down shirts than he even knows he has (seriously, I went through his closet and showed him), and a closet specifically designated for shoes. Then, there’s also my friend Evan, who’s known to only wear his uniform of a blue button-down shirts and khaki pants. He deemed this suitable for every occasion, until his ex intervened and introduced him to jeans.
Female fashions are a bit trickier. The typical girl must have a shirt, a pant, a skirt, a dress, a shoe for every occasion. Plus the color possibilities are endless and therefore coordinating becomes more complicated.
I can’t tell you how many times I have gotten ready with girl friends who have agonized over which shoes to wear. I always told them, guys could care less about what’s on your feet. They’ll be too busy looking at other things. To my surprise, I recently had a (straight) guy ogle a pair of cowboy boots I was wearing. In addition, many guys have been vocal about last year’s (and unfortunately trickling into this year) UGG boot trend. Guys do seem to notice, though that is not the real reason why there are 5239502 pairs of shoes in each of our closets, it’s because we need them to match each outfit.
Jeans are easy to coordinate with, yet I own over 15 pairs of jeans, believe it or not. While you may say, but a pair of jeans is a pair of jeans, I could probably justify a reason for owning each (aside from the fact that instead of dress pants, I’m lucky enough to wear jeans to work on a daily basis). You see, there are jeans that are meant to wear with specific pairs of shoes, based on where the hemline falls, i.e., “the sneaker jeans,” “the tall boots jeans,” “the jeans to tuck into boots jeans.” Of course, there are jeans that are dressier than others, and there are the jeans that make your butt look so good in. For guys, they can get away with wearing the same pair of jeans three days in a row, and no one would say a thing—until they started to smell.
Maybe I’m just justifying why I had three overstuffed laundry hampers last night. Maybe my clothes-horse ways were just inherited by my atypical fashion-conscious father, who filled more than 4 closets in his house solely with his clothing. I think I can speak for most girls when I say that there’s more to a girl getting dressed in the morning than picking out the cleanest shirt in the closet. We put thought into our outfits. We may try on eight combinations before we settle on what we walk out the door with. Like Alan said, it’s what we do, because we’re girls.
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