What Not to Wear...

... or how I was shamed into dressing in a way that makes other people less embaressed and me less happy.

I'm currently watching What Not To Wear on TLC and I've decided that it is an evil evil show. Family and "friends" who are embaressed by someone they love (but clearly only conditionally) film a plea for TV fashion experts to come and change their friend's form of self-expression. The thing that gets me the most is that so many of these people LIKE what they wear... it isn't until they are shamed on national television and being told "you do realize that people are laughing at you" that they begin to go, oh well, maybe everyone else is right. Then they buy new clothes and feel all better about themselves because now everyone feels better about them.

Maybe we could have a culture where our friends and family learn to love us for who we are and how we chose to express ourselves and complete strangers from television stay the hell out of it.