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johntoast
- December 18th, 2007
People sote utility out of their clothes in Walden. They didn't see the point of having different types of wear. Formal,Causal and such. Back in society they use to say dress to impress, well dressing to impress meant to some that you were lower on the socioeconomic food chain and needed to dress in fancy clothing, just to impress a person from a higher socioeconomic class. To others this mean to dress better than everyone else so they look up to you, envy you, want to be you. Well this was all vanity to the people of Walden and none of them wanted a part of it. They just wanted to be equal and not give anything abstract value. Abstraction just leads to complexities that don't really have any earthly value. Walden was a town of simple pleasures. People who had enough of the Abstract came here to find a home with nature, to live life as it was meant to be lived. Clothes were just as simple as life. Patches showed character, clothes were used for warmth, sometimes when it was warm out people would go naked. But this lead to some complications with manning an axe. Everyone who lived in Walden was tired of life in society, so they made their own off the transcendentals teachings of one Henry David Thoreau.