Brooks Brothers. JCrew. Vineyard Vines.
There was a period in my life, right when I started working at UBS, that I had this nagging desire to be proper and preppy. Part of the reason was my newfound environment.
The vast majority of people in my team at UBS went to an Ivy League undergrad / business school, then worked at Bain / BCG / McKinsey before coming to UBS. They had boating sneakers. They had belts with little whales and wore yellow cashmere sweaters. I...had none of those.
I browed through those cloting websites mentioned above and realized I could never bring myself to change my whole wardrobe...I was either too stingy, too lazy, or both.
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As I thought about that "phase" I realized how incredibly stupid it was - and how incredibly fortunate I already am to have shoes, socks, clothes - no matter what's on the tag and what kind of animal is embrodiered on it. I was pissed at myself for ever wanting to fit an image or a mold artificially created by marketers and clothing companies. Walking through the slums makes companies like Brooks Brothers seem evil (even if they really aren't) - certainly, wanting to fit that image IS evil I believe. I almost despise even having the option & means to live like that.
I think the more we care about God and people the less we will care about purchasing and acquiring clothes for the sake of image and vanity...and instead think about truly being clothed and truely re-imaged.
We would think about Christ, who was disrobed, stripped naked, pulverzied and put on a cross so that one day our bodies would be made whole for eternity and we would never have to be naked again, clothed in the righteousness of Christ. He took on the life of a poor peasant man and lived in poverty so that we could enjoy the infinite riches of His kindness.
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