One for all and all for one
Charlie Webster would like to wear leather pants:
If you’ve never tried on a pair you are missing out! I promise you this, you will never, ever feel as man-sexy as you do when wearing leather pants.
However, Charlie does not wear leather pants because it is not “socially acceptable”. This made me think about social acceptance. What does “socially acceptable” mean?
Social acceptance has to do with other people’s opinions on something. So let us imagine a society consisting of three persons: A, B and C. Let us also assume that everybody in this society wants to make socially acceptable clothing choices. When A wants to know whether wearing something is socially acceptable, he consults B and C about it. Correspondingly, B consults C and A about his sartorial choices and C consults A and B.
Do you already see where I’m getting at? If everybody sought social acceptance, then everybody would get to influence a person’s clothing choices but the person himself.
