Red Gym Folk. Damn They're Cool!

Today at work, I watched the people who came into the Red Gym for one reason or another. I found a couple trends among the people I saw:

1. iPods were a staple for all people.
2. The majority of people wore dark jeans.
3. People who came in big groups all had scarves on. Weird, I know.
4. People who exerted quite a bit of confidence were all wearing brown dress shoes.

So, clearly pretty much everyone had an iPod. I think this cool accessory has already hit its threshold, and everyone has caught on and bought one/uses one. I remember when I first got my iPod, I had no clue what it was. I got it from my parents, which is even weirder because my parents were in a way the innovators. They purchased one for me before they were this huge deal. I think I was a freshman in high school. I used it quite a bit and all of a sudden saw a boom of people using them. Maybe I was the hub?!?!?! That would be pretty cool. Anyway, at some point they hit the threshold, and people started using them ALL THE TIME! Now my dad has a iPod…I think that’s the weirdest (haha). He is definitely the straggler in this coolness.

The dark jeans thing is hard to make any sense of. I mean, I have a pair of light jeans, two medium colored jeans, and one pair of dark jeans. Maybe it was just a coincidence that people were wearing them on the same day. However, this could be because dark jeans are the cool jeans. I am not sure, and I don’t think I can discuss how a shade of jeans would hit a hub and cross a threshold…I think jeans are jeans. But maybe that’s just me.

It seems that people who travel in packs like to wear scarves. This might correlate to scarves being popular items fro cool people. If I were a coolhunter, I would notice this and take advantage of it. Maybe advertising scarves that match shirts or something…then people would wear them more. I don’t know. I don’t wear a scarf. I think that possibly the people wearing the scarves are innovators and that soon, since the people wearing them are pretty popular, scarf wearage with hit its threshold and everyone will wear them.

Confidence, I feel, tells a lot about a person. I think that cool people might have more confidence than uncool people. Brown shoes aren’t worn by everyone, so I think maybe they have just hit the hub and the cool, confident people will allow the fashion of the brown shoe to explode after it hits the threshold.

I did see a lot of northface jackets, ugg boots, stretch pants, and huge sunglasses. But this is a fad of coasties. Nothing else. It is definitely not cool because most people would not walk out of their dwelling-places in those clothes.

That is all.