![]() Havana, Tuesday April 7, 2009. Year 13 / Number 97 Is going shirtless in fashion? By Lourdes Perez Navarro lourdes.p@granma.cip.cu A CubaNews translation by Giselle Gil. Edited by Walter Lippmann.
Have you ever shared public transportation with someone shirtless? Have you seen someone shirtless walking by in your neighborhood, sometimes holding hands with a very nicely attired young woman, clashingly discordant? Haven’t you run into someone like this in a cafeteria, in a shop, in a marketplace, or in any other place far away from the beach? Alas for global warming! It not only disrupts the weather turning fertile land into deserts, causing floods and droughts, ravaging crops, and wiping out different species of the flora and the fauna… It is also the reason why –or is it merely a justification- people take off their clothes, or, to put it bluntly, the cause of impropriety. Shirtless men are so common now that it makes us doubt if our ancestors were really human. How could they, with similar temperatures, wear suits and shirts and ties, regardless if the sun or the stars were shining? Fashion changes, no doubt about that. What we are arguing is if our community should consider men walking around shirtless fashionable, even though it’s against propriety and a lack of respect to those around us. According to the dictionary, fashion is “to follow what’s in style, to adopt the customs of the country or town where you live”. We should not allow going shirtless to become a fashion, just because we get into the habit of seeing them and out of indolence permit it; in spite of the heat. |
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