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Is Black The New Black?
Is black the new black? It’s fairly obvious that one of the most popular colors in fashion, style, culture and just about anything else one would care to mention these days — including the high-speed, low drag sports cars many young guys are driving around in — is still black. It never seems to go out of style and there are certainly a good many reasons for why.
For one, and this is an important consideration when talking about boys, young man, men and even old men, it hides dirt, stains and other icky blotches very well. Think about it; the color works great and looking good and hiding dirt. Think about something like a black helmet, perhaps one intended for a motorcycle, for example. Who needs to polish it and clean it for the first seven or eight years when black is there to hide all the dirt?
Truthfully, hiding dirt as well as one can is probably one of the big priorities and most of the young guy’s life, because what young guy wants to spend 30 minutes washing a pair of dirty jeans that are black in color when they can probably be worn for at least five or six more weeks, at which point they’ll probably march themselves to the washer just to relieve themselves of the stench.
For most guys, even picking out something as simple as a watch will require thinking about how it can best appear to be clean when it’s not. This may be why they go for a black sport watch, after busily leafing through the discount store fliers for a good eight dollar model, it must be said. What guy, really, ever considers throwing down three grand on a Swiss watch that needs to be cleaned all the time and doesn’t come in black?
In reality, there’s really no deep-dark secret behind why guys love the color black. In fact, most men, boys and even old men worship the color because it also helps them quickly wash off the odd ketchup stain or motor oil stain that ends up on their black jeans. Try that little stunt while wearing a pair of stylish light colored khakis and see the looks that will be cast a guy’s way, especially if that stain is near the crotch area.
If there’s anything, really, to complain about as far as things are colored black, it just might be that a guy who insists on going around dressed in it from head to toe might be mistaken for some ninja warrior out on a mission. Of course, his very cute Day-Glo men’s sport watch would have given him away, how else would he know that it’s time to head to his favorite chat room to discuss the goings-on at his favorite online first-person shooter game?
There are so many positive things to say about black, coming from the perspective of a guy, that it’s a wonder that more men aren’t running around dressed like ninja warriors. Certainly, it can even slim down a guy who’s been chowing down on too many doughnuts and 32 ounce soda pops while busily punching his videogame controller, and that’s probably why black will forever be loved by any man or boy worth his salt.