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Friday, September 27, 2002
The art of camouflage
By Joy Bernaldez
No one is born perfect. Some are big, small, short, fat, tall, thin, big-busted, flat-chested, broad-shouldered, short-legged, knock-kneed, apple-shaped, pear-shaped… we all come in different sizes and shapes. No two are exactly alike.
Yet when clothes come in a “fits all” size, we are left wondering how that is ever possible.
There’s more than just common sense involved when we take utmost care in picking the clothes that we wear. Verily, it would redound to the best interest of the viewing public. If we all dressed up looking our optimum best— whether at work, at school, at play, at a social event, at the mall—at all the right or even the wrong places outside the home, we’d be doing ourselves a favor. But we’d be performing a civic duty if we cover what is better left unseen and show only what is pleasant to the beholder.
A prerequisite to achieving good dress sense would be to arm ourselves with no-nonsense objectivity, enough honesty to pass a lie detector test, and the purest of intentions as we go on a humbling self-analysis trip to identify our physical problem areas and… accepting them.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with having body flaws… it’s when we don’t accept the fact that we do that creates a problem. If we insist on wearing mini skirts despite our bow-leggedness – (reminds me of the all too familiar question, “… what manner of (wo-) man is this who walks in parenthesis?”) — people are going to say “Tsk!”, squirm and look the other way. Granted, we don’t really give a hoot about what other people think and we just want to exercise our freedom and make a statement, we ought to at least know that there are better ways of expressing ourselves sartorially, without having to solicit unnecessary criticism or sympathy.
Thanks to the art of camouflage, dressing can be an exercise in damage control, even redemption. Truly, there are ways of hiding our imperfections.
Not only does this art bring out only those that we rather would but it also presents us as something we would rather be. It’s not cheating or faking—it’s more like performing magic…creating an illusion of being more beautiful, more perfect than we really are.
If such an art were actually going to make you look several pounds lighter, a few inches slimmer, tell me, what’s to stop you?
So what shape are you?
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