Someone mentioned to me today that she would like to play Pokémon Go, but that she was worried that she’d seem silly to others. I replied that as long as she enjoyed the game, and walked about safely, others’ views of silliness shouldn’t matter.
She needn’t have accepted my word for it, however. Noted British philosopher Adam Ant has already dispositively addressed questions of fashion in Goody Two Shoes (from his magnum opus, Friend or Foe, Columbia Records, 1982):
We don’t follow fashion
That’d be a joke
You know we’re going to set them, set them
So everyone can take note, take note
There will always be those who say it should be this style, but never that style; it should be this way, but never that way.
One should set one’s own fashion, and follow one’s harmless enjoyments.
It shouldn’t be hard, let alone discouraged, to exhibit a range, from lighter to darker, from the playful to the serious, depending on the occasion.