Which is all well and good.. There's nothing at all wrong with someone's personal fashion (and/or music) preferences. IF you are NOT wearing said garb DURING a NATIONALLY TELEVISED interview regarding yourself and your m̶u̶r̶d̶e̶r̶e̶d missing child... while LE stands beside you shaking their heads in thorough disgust.
JMHO
IMO if law enforcement is standing there shaking their heads in disgust due to his
clothing, then they need to figure out their priorities. There are far more important things to be disgusted about in regards to that man than whether he is wearing his 8 dollar Walmart T-shirt or not, in a style of dress that probably half the population wears on a daily basis.
If I thought for one second that this was actually going through the cops minds, I'd be very sad for Zhara that even AFTER death, people are less concerned with her and the actual things she went through than they are with superficial non-sense. Seeing as all of those t-shirts are common enough to be found at any Walmart and in many stores at the mall, even for kids as young as infants, I find it totally ridiculous and insulting to the cops to think that any of those law enforcement officials are spending much time being judgmental about his clothing instead of being simply disgusted at his mannerisms and the OBVIOUS signs that this was foul play beginning in the home (which AB is most likely involved in).
But then again you're right and some people ARE totally focussed on appearance rather than action. Perhaps AB should have been concerned more about how he would appear to others than about the other things going on. Personally, when someone who's child is missing has the presence of mind to change their standard way of dressing before a press conference I wonder if they're putting on a show. Caylee Anthony's mom cleaned up pretty nicely for court appearances...perhaps she's just more "respectful" of her child than AB since she made the effort not to wear her club wear to court? Sorry, but I still think this is just silly. Ted Bundy wouldn't have been caught dead in "alternative clothes" but if AB had changed into a button up shirt and khakis for the interview, you would have thought I was totally nuts if I came on here and said he was "trying to dress like Ted Bundy to make a statement".
There are situations where clothes can be one part of the puzzle, but when someone dresses in exactly the same way that they always dress, in clothes they already owned, that they probably bought at Walmart, that reflects a prevailing casual clothing style that is very common today, I just don't see any type of big connection. I'm way more concerned with things that are ACTUALLY disgusting about this man, rather than the things he shares with MILLIONS of parents who have perfectly normal happy kids.
Hell, if my kid went missing I'd have to go to a mall and BUY new clothes in order to dress to some of the standards people expect here of "grieving parents"...and do you know what the chance is of me giving a enough of a crap about my
clothing to actually do that while my child is missing? None. Zilch. If that makes me a bad parent, then so be it, but I know where my priorities are, and clothing is not it when my child is gone.
