What Spaniards wear

“Not at all. I find it liberating. I believe my life has value, and I don’t want to waste it thinking about clothing,” Malcolm said. “I don’t want to think about what I will wear in the morning. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion? Professional sports, perhaps. Grown men swatting little balls, while the rest of the world pays m

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Part of the problem lies, I suspect, in how the Norwegians dress for their special day. They are a bit special, the Norwegians, and May 17 showcases this specialness in abundant ways magnificent to behold. It is the fancy dress party to end them all. Soon after leaving my hotel at 9 a.m., I begin to encounter them en masse: men, women, children, an

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So there’s a weird thing going on where there’s abundance, and yet, at the same time, we’ve become really conservative about our own styles, because people fundamentally don’t want to adopt things that feel inauthentic to them, or will be judged inauthentic.

And because culture is so ephemeral, there’s just more stuff that people are worried that —

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