Costume or Costume
Shakespeare once said that all the world is a stage, which would mean that we are all actors playing a part and our clothes help us to create who we want to project. What we wear act as a supporting role in our everyday performance.
We are conformists when we follow the must-have trend (i.e. Uggs), a power player when we wear a suit and a suburban mom with the dreaded mom jeans. In a way, you can say that what you wear helps you to fit into your desired tribe.
But in today's modern world, we have evolved even further. Beyond trying to just fit in to the bleach blond moms of a California cul de sac or the golf playing dads at the Applebee's, we now accept and celebrate the characters who live life like its a Wizard of Oz fantasy.
The other day, in broad daylight, I saw a girl wearing a hoop skirt with an embroidered poodle, a white Peter Pan colored shirt, a pulled back pony tail and a pair of converse sneakers. She looked like she was making a technicolor debut, but she was just in line at Chipotle getting a taco. It was midtown Manhattan do she could just be coming from a Broadway show but I had seen her before and always in character. The first time I saw her it was startling but over the last couple of months I realized that she seemed normal and I ate at Chipotle way too often.
If Shakespeare was alive, I think he would need to amend his original quote and add that all the world is a stage and no one knows who is wearing a costume.
YES
I got all philosophical. It happens.
NO
Going like you normally dress doesn't pass as a Halloween costume
MAYBE
You are a philosophy major and I got this whole thing wrong based on the Socratic Method. It happens
