One of the ironic things about our age is that Vanity Fair ended up becoming a magazine,

a very popular magazine by the way a fashion magazine fashion

fashion and trends and fashion has always cracked me up.

I am a slave to it.

I'm a slave in my own way to it.

So believe me, I am not accusing others,

assuming I am not prone to it, but I was a Shakespearean student for a

number of years and thought that I would end up actually in a career in Shakespearean

theatre. And you look back at those guys with the really big

collars right that kind of looks like they have an accordion wrapped around their

neck. That's a good luck. And you go like he honestly thought that he was cool. You call, like, that is a ridiculous look.

That with your leggings, right, and your bloomers, and you've got this accordion wrapped around your neck and it's like

buddy you look ridiculous but he thought hey look at me hey, I look so freaking cool bit.

Wow, Theophilus, that looks so fresh today.

The power of fashion down through the centuries and what it says about human nature and how

desperately we want to be in with whatever the in crowd that we want to be in, whatever our particular group,

and the language we use, the way we dress, the sunglasses we wear or don't wear.

I'm in. I've got reasons stories, but I have an old story which is easier to tell. But I remember I was a freshman in college and when I, and it's so simple.

When I had been in Colorado before moving out to California,

you know, rock climbing, Fisbee at the park,

I would just roll up my pants and go around the day that way and I was putting on, you know,

a pair of pants starting to roll them up and then I had a real moment of total consternation.

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