Yeah, but unless you are shearing your own sheep, weaving your own fabric on a loom and sewing our own clothing, you're picking out clothing designed and made by someone else. It's their view of fashion (or lack thereof), that you're selecting. Well, this goes back to the tree-falling-in-the-forest idea. You've got all this stuff that you think is "cool", but no one ever sees it... is it "cool" then?

I've seen quite a few guys who don't give a ***** what others think. They sit around drinking beer, not shaving or taking care of their hair for months at a time. They never do laundry, because why should they conform to others' ideas of fashionable or neat right? They certianly don't care about clean trimmed nails and they slobber food all over their beards down onto their pot-bellies as they eat. Belching and farting while eating is certainly the norm. In their eyes, they are "perfect" and "cool" as they are, the heck with what other people think. They certainly aren't attracting anything above trailer-trash wh0res either...

BTW, we aren't solitary cavemen living our existences in solitude, we live in a society, a cohesive group with shared norms and values. The degree to which we've adapted and conformed to our society varies, but we've been shaped and formed more by our surrounding culture than we think. Just go travel abroad to someplace halfway across the world and you'll see how much your identity has been developed to fit in with your surroundings.

Heck, even with our European ancestry, you can spot the European tourists in town at a quick glance. American tourists stick out like sore thumbs everywhere in the world. Even the way you walk, has been shaped by society at large.