Function over Form
As I put my shoes on this morning, I realised that I was no longer dressing to look “cool” at work, but rather for my clothing to serve a purpose for the next 8 hours.
I’m not a trendy person. Unless I’m going to a wedding or something like that I rarely dress up – for me it’s a hoody, jeans and skate shoes in my day to day life. My current job allows me to wear pretty much whatever I want to work, so long as it’s tidy and as a result, I usually end up wearing a polo, jeans and skaties at work.
Over the last few months however, I have started wearing sneakers instead of skaties to work. It allows me to be more comfortable around the office, and go for longer walks at lunch. Jeans and sneakers – how very Jerry Seinfeld of me.
I have found myself thinking more about function over form in the last few years. In some ways I think it has been triggered by my commuting to work on a bike. Life is becoming more about necessity for me, rather than the luxuries, and commuting on a bike is all about that. There’s no point in having a comfortable bike to ride to work on if it weighs half a tonne and breaks all the time!
The whole “simplicity” thing is something that interests me a lot, and is something that I feel will carry over into our house when we build it one day.
With that said, I don’t have issues with people that want to look good, or care a lot about their image. I suppose everyone has their own calling in life, and we all make that judgement call on what we actually want. My only concern is whether or not these people are confident and conscious of their decisions, rather than being dragged along with the crowd into a life that they don’t enjoy.