If there’s one thing I hate, it’s being put into a category. Being labeled is no fun. What’s even less fun is when those labels fit you like a glove. When you recognize that you are a stereotype, a caricature, or just a “basic bro.” When this realization sets in, it is important to lean into it. Pain and disappointment are nature’s teachers, and this can teach us all to appreciate the predictability in some human behavior, when most other human tendencies are as random as the running patterns of cocaine-addled squirrels.
What follows is a careful and scholarly attempt at locating individuals within fashion culture and identity.