The novelty has worn off

Ok, since Saturday I lost the motivation for wearing the Masai outfit. I feel that after a week of wearing it from home to school and back, the ‘shock’ factor is gone. In ‘addressing the body’ chapter in the crit con reader about Polhemus’s contribution to the ‘dress, embodiment and habitus’, subsection, says, ”The mixing of youth culture ‘tribes’ in recent years has meant less clearly differentiated boundaries between groups… young people are now free to choose from a range of styles as if they were displayed on supermarket shelves.”
Perhaps Capetonians tolerate this theory at least on the streets. But I’m not sure Polhemus’s theory would apply say if I were to attend a job interview, try to enter a club, etc in that cloth!

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