Beware of what you wear!

Are you paying attention to the symbols in your wardrobe? 

I can remember my “cyber” days, when I wore symbols like nuclear and biohazard without a reason, and absolute no conscience about the meaning of it.
It came to my mind only lately: I’m really waving the “No nuclear!” flag, and watching this symbol made me think about how many people have it tattooed on their skin, have t-thirts with it… Just think about Cyberdog, the most famous brand of cyber clothing. Many items carry the radioactive symbol! When I wore it I actually didn’t think about the meaning at all, it was just a symbol meaning radioactivity, somthing like “hey, I’m dangerous!” or “hey, I’m the son of a spoilt era!”. I really didn’t want to say “hey, I want nuclear everywhere!”

So, what about the symbols that we carry each day, and we don’t notice?
What about the military wear? It doesn’t make sense to me. We’re all for peace and stuff, afraid of war… and we wear combat pants? Grades on our shirts? What’s wrong with us?
Is it some kind of catharsis? Or are we just too indifferent to notice that some things are just wrong?
Then there is the opposite tendence: wearing peace symbols. Fucking peace symbols everywhere! I really would like to ask people who are wearing them, “What are you doing for peace? Are you voting the right politicians? Are you helping people who live in countries hitten by war?”

Ok, ok I’ll say something about religions, too! Crosses. The cross is a religious symbol (I don’t want to say catholic, because I’m a bit against all the cristianity thing) and we’re wearing it like it’s nothing. I’m the first one, I boast crosses off everywhere, I put them wherever they fit, neck, ear, t-shirts! Do you ever think that someone could think you’re religious even if you’re not? Im definitely not, I just like the symbol, but I’m often asked if I am.
Not to mention rosaries: I’m into them since I went through my goth period.
I read a blog post about it a few weeks ago, but I can’t find it anymore! It was on a fashion blog obviously, if you remember who wrote about this (crosses in fashion) please tell me!

But in my reasearch, I found this! She talks about religious symbols, but also about the keffiyeh (kefiah), which is another politic/religious symbol I wore in my puberty, and had no absofuckinglutely idea of what I was carrying around. Now I know, and feel pity for adult people who wear it for fashion reasons.

What do you think about it? Do you feel offended by people carrying symbols? Do you think it a right thing to do? Do you feel that garments should mean something more than “fashion”?