So the other day my best friend and I were standing in my dorm room about to head out to dinner. I looked in the mirror and made a comment about how I was looking pretty rough. She replied with, "are you serious? Look at me. I'm in a sweatshirt." While, I got what she was saying, we ended up getting into a talk about "roughness." I would like to share this conversation with all of you. I had to explain to her while yes, she was looking a little rough she didn't look as rough as I did because all of her roughness matched. She was completely in the same category. Someone would still look at her and say, "she's cute" even though she is wearing a sweatshirt and her hair is in a ponytail. While me on the other hand, was dressed nicely, but my hair and my face looked rough, therefore, I was spanning two different categories. It is better to stay completely in the same category. If someone looked at what I was wearing and was impressed, as soon as they looked up, they wouldn't have been as impressed. While, in the clothes I was currently wearing I felt I looked rough, if I had changed into something more casual I would have felt better about myself because I would have felt as though everything matched. This may not make any sense to most of you, but maybe you can think of a situation where you were dressed up and didn't feel as pretty as you did when you threw on something more casual. NOTE: "casual" is not a code word for "ugly," "tacky," or "sloppy."
I call this the "Roughness Criterion"
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