Clothes and Slavery

One of my favorite blogs (outside of our AIS class) is facehunter. If you want to see what it is here's the link.

Basically, facehunter is "a man out and about in london and beyond: eye candy for the style hungry" As sketchy as that sounds, the blog is really cool and you get to see outfits and crazy fashions that practically no one in the United States would ever think of wearing. I'm pretty sure Tyra Banks would classify the clothes as "High Fashion" but when you look closely, most of the clothes are stuff that you or I would have in our closets, however, its the way these people put them together is what makes them unique.

So this is my question:

Is the way we dress a form of expressing what we really feel? Can we really read a person by what they wear?

In my opinion, it's like judging a book by it's cover. It is almost like seeing a person with a tee-shirt for a dress and saying "Wow. They must own no pants. They probably don't have a very good job" What?! How can you make an assumption like that based on a tee-shirt? Unfortunately this happens quite often and I know that I too have been guilty of judging a person by what they are wearing. The interesting connection between this and what our class has been learning is that this is exactly how Blacks were viewed pre and post Civil War America. People only looked at a person's skin and automatically made assumptions about them based on a tiny little factor. We shouldn't worry about a person's skin the same way we shouldn't worry about what a person is wearing. The goal is for everyone one of us to look past a person's exterior and see what they are really like. You might be surprised.