Person #1 was a male with medium length black hair. He had some stubble as facial hair and he was also had black gauges. He was wearing a black, gray, and purple flannel shirt with a black graphic t-shirt, with blue jeans that on the bottom you could see were torn and ratted. He did though, have nice gray boot like shoes. He was sitting at a table with his Mac laptop with a textbook. The Mac book had stickers on it, including the state of Oregon with a red heart in the middle, a I love beer, and a anchor like design sticker. From my own assumptions I would think that he is in his early twenties. I believe that the values and beliefs of person #1 are strong, even though is appearance looked a little grungy he was taking time to what it looked like to me, homework or studying. I could tell from that small moment that he cared about his classes; he looked tired so he might not have gotten much sleep the night before. Since it’s midterms I could see how tired and stressed he appeared to be at the moment, health wise it looked as if he could get more sleep but we’re students we don’t run on much sleep to begin with.
Person #2 was a female with brunette hair with curling iron waves. She was wearing a teal blazer with a white blouse, jeans, and black heals. She has make up on, foundation, blush, mascara, eye liner, and eye shadow. Accessory wise I could tell she was wearing earrings, she was though was a fairly large fashionable ring on her right index finger. She was conducting what it looked like interviews, once one interview was over she pulled out a tablet from her nice beige purse, she then made a phone call on her iphone as well before starting the next interview. She appeared to be in her mid-twenties, and from the looks of it was not a student. You could tell she was very well put together in the sense of wearing a blazer but pairing it with jeans and heels gave her the laid back kind of vibe. It also seemed she would be one who is outgoing by the seems of her big fashionable ring that screamed for attention.
Person #3 was a male with brown hair on the shorter side. He has a good sculpted beard and also wore black glasses. He was wearing a jean long sleeve topped by a dress sweater with the collar of the jean shirt sticking out. On top of that he wore a black north face rain jacket. On the bottom he wore grayish khaki jeans with nice oxford style shoes with navy polka dot socks. He also wore a very nice looking watch. From the way he dresses it would appear that he is in his mid-twenties. He seems to care much about how he presents himself to others, so what he wears is something he must put work into. By the look of his outfit I believe that himself and his family are fairly wealthy, I say this due to the quality of his watch and shoes.
From just appearance it is hard for me to generalize their values and beliefs, in order to determine what those are to someone, I have to get to know them in order to do so. As described in the reading “ People use appearance to place each other into categories, which aid in the anticipation and interpretation of behavior, and to make decisions about how best to coordinate social activities. “ (Sanders 1) It is easier to make assumptions about someone based on their appearance than how values and beliefs are demonstrated. Assumptions that can be made based on appearance can be whether the person is happy or sad, if they can be taken seriously or not, are they stuck up or easy going just to name a few things that can be assumed by someone’s appearance.
After I read your article, one thing that I feel very interesting is that you said that, “even though is appearance looked a little grungy he was taking time to what it looked like to me, homework or studying.” In my understanding, look like you think if a person who looks grungy, he should not waste time to take care of his outside anymore. However, I also hear some people said, “there is not grungy person, but lazy person.” Which means everyone can be very beautiful if we choose a good design. How do you think about this idea?
I do agree in what you said, I do think people can look beautiful if they all just take time. I also feel that not everyone always has to be dolled up all the time, because that can be exhausting as well. I think there are times that people should put in a little bit more of an effort, such as interviews, outings with friends, going on a date. Everything we do there is always this idea that you have to look a particular way. So when I mentioned that the male that I was observing looked a little grundy, it was not to indicate that he was lazy. Yes, it did look that he didn’t put some time in the morning to get ready, but as college students I feel that we all have other priorities on our mind. As students there are so many things that we have to balance such as school, work, homework, time with friends, family, a significant other, etc. It could have been that I caught him on a bad day, he was studying before hand so maybe he was stressed out about finals. Sometimes I think we are allowed to be “lazy” every once and a while, if I could I would show up to classes with a sweatshirt, yoga pants, UGG boots, my hair in a bun, wearing my glasses. I can’t do that since I work either before or after class and cannot show up like that to work. Just because you dress “grungy” does not necessarily make you a lazy person.
I find it interesting, after reading yours and other student’s blogs, that we all started with the top of their head, with hair, make up, and jewelry. Clearly it is what we see first and I wonder without a full physical description if we would still come to the same conclusion. Women who wear make-up, like myself, care about their appearance and take time to ‘gussy-up’, men who shave want to look professional or ‘clean’. There is a style and a message with our faces. I agree, through this assignment I discovered it is difficult to generalize values and beliefs, it isn’t just what is on the outside what tells the story.