Intweener Shorts

Fiberal Abuse.

It's almost spring here in the Netherlands, and today is the first day that people enjoy being outside with temperatures above the average room temperature. 

Suddenly the old dresses, prebought skirts and one pair of the gazillion sandals and/or boots were ripped out of their comfortable closets to be shown to the rest of the world. Life's good it seems, but when I walk around in the park and observe the people who are enjoying themselves, I also come to realize the horrible truth : Clothing Suffers! 

 Let's start off with shoes. They're made specifically to be worn, and yet most shoes only see the light of day just a fraction of their lives. They have to share their time in the bright sunlight with -to females at least- an horrific average of  a dozen pair of shoes spread over sometimes only a couple of months. 

But that's not the worst of it even. Shoes wouldn't actually mind having a time-share in being worn. Humans like it for some reason, and shoes are there to adapt right? Wrong! Countless shoes are being bought in sizes that the owners cannot actually wear comfortable, just because "I liked it's color sooo much, but it wasn't in my size".

Then the shoes will have to come and realize, that they're only shown indiscriminately to their owner's friends in a catalog. Eventually the shoes will simply be thrown away and forgotten. Never getting the chance to degrate from the inside, but slowly and evenly indiscriminately broken down by time or fire.

Pants are completely different on that matter. When shoes are bought, they look neat, perfect. It's like opening a perfectly packed present when you wear your first shoes. It used to be the same with pants that way. Especially jeans. But the last decade, the people in the fabrics, who show their newly made jeans to their bosses get "Nice, now tear some stuff up and make it look worn" . 

Jeans were suddenly created to make people look weathered or adventurous, while the pants have only just left the store the other day.

What's worse, the pants are usually molested so much that they can only be worn about half a year before they start their shortlived road to decline, while they could live a full three to four years easily without. What's more, since fashion suddenly make weathered pants popular, it meant for their previous generation they could last eight years easily. But keep in mind people... you're paying for your jeans to be molested so you look cool.

Moving up another tier of the body we come to a problem in clothing that receive mercy where shoes do not : the shirts and sweaters!

It's a part of the body that on the male's side are generally well-received. Either the shirts are neat, tidy and live a full life of function. Usually time even grants the shirts some neat holes and signs of degration, before it gets thrown away respectfully. A job well done for the shirt, if it felt any kind of fulfillment. 

Then we're of course taking a closer look at females where the tables are turned. Shirts don't have to fit like it has to with males. A little longer or shorter is acceptable, as long as the female looks great in it. To that extent a shirt still can feel some level of fulfillment, although it wears out quite fast, and gets ditched when they can't take any more worn abuse.

Not to mention they suffer a daily battle to be put on and they're often pulled from all sides just to make the right impression. But would females start to wear just a bigger size and keep in mind the fact that the cute little shirts could shrink? Easter on Christmas guys.. Easter on Christmas.

There is a small footnote to be made on a specific brand of shirts : the misfits. They're usually made to either cover something up more or cover up less of the body. They're only worn as long as a current;y well-known pop song stays in the top lists that are only funded by people who do not know how to download or make their own clothes.  

And they usually die off rather quickly if everyone is fed up with it, and only 0.0001% of these ugly piles of manure are remembered into the abyss that is past pop and fashion. 

Then we get to the most unthankful, unseen piece of clothing that is often missed by the eye of any observer. The towel. Not only do they try their best to look their best as long as possible. They try to get your attention and love by showing up in all kinds of colours and patterns. And yet it only deserves a title like "Looks nice with the curtains" or "Fits with the interior" They are the pieces of clothing most abused, most thrown down on the floor without thinking after an intense backrub. . 

And they're just being piled up as if they're not all unique in their own special way, slowly rotting because they're forgotten by the people that pretend they're too busy caring for them. 

In the end they have led an excessively long life. Never shown off to people the way they should, and never being complimented on how well they fit with the people wearing them, if only for a little while. 

And they may be the most special piece of clothing for not being influenced by trends and being replaced by identical siblings. 

So for their sake... Love your towels, keep them dry as often as possible, and they love a huggle every now and then as much as you do.

Writing Time : 20-25 minutes

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Catalyst word : Irreverence.