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Do Your Socks Have to Match in Quarantine?
Who cares, right? Does it really matter?
I have seen a lot of funny memes about the way people are dressing now that they are stuck at home and are not going out for others to see them. I think a lot of people are happy to be able to slouch around in their most comfortable clothes. Usually, that means the rattiest thing we own.
That’s great! These are the clothes that make us feel hugged. That’s why we usually wore them on the weekends before, because by Friday we needed a hug. Now we are living in a hug all week long.
I reached in the drawer this morning and tried to find a pair of socks that matched what I have on. Then I thought, who cares? No one is going to see me anyway. “You’re right” I said to myself and grabbed the first pair my hand landed on. Matching socks in the face of the greatest crisis any of us have ever faced do not seem a priority.
But then I started thinking about why we dress differently when we go out and when we are at home. When we go out, we want to impress others with our ability to put ourselves together. Or, if we don’t care about that, we are following social mores that say we should not show up at work in our pajamas. We also dress differently when we go out because it makes us feel better about ourselves and it expresses our…
