The Convergence of the Williamsburg Bridge and WilliamsburgI own three pairs of black shoes. A square-toed pair of leather dressy ones purchased years ago that carry an orthopedic Northern European sensibility, a pair of super flat 60's German military sneakers and a pair of molded rubbery biodegradable gardening clogs. I recalled these shoes on the way to work this morning as I noticed, for the first time, the previously imperceptible seasonal-dress switchover heretofore apparent only to the fashionably conscious. Perhaps something akin to not wearing white after Labor Day, I figure one should not sport dankly dark colors (and dankly dark colored shoes) on a warming sunny spring day. It's offensive to the sensibilities, it's bad style and it's deviously gauche. It's spring. Brighten your shit up.
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I should say that skin tone is a brightener. Show a little skin and that may do it right there. Also, and really fundamentally, it is more the correct choice of density of fabric than density of color.
Either way, get it together mopes.
what about black people like me?
I love photos of painted streets. It's the contrast. Love that contrast. Black people, like me, love contrast.
Huh, I never really, you know, considered you 'black', I mean in any way, except your hair color is pretty dark. But you tend to wear pretty bright stuff all year round. You are a bright stuff wearer, and it works for you. And you have that sunny disposition.
Huh. Black. Well, ok, yeah for you there can be an exception, I guess.
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