Some people excell at one thing or another. Those are the people you admire. Some people excell at everything they try. Those are the people you hate. Some people excell brilliantly at one thing but are inept at almost everything else. Those are the characters on television's "The Big Bang Theory."
Sheldon, Leonard, Raj, and Howard are three brilliant physicists and one brilliant engineer. They are all socially inept and fashion blind.
Let's look at some of their fashion choices, as well as those of some of their friends, and rate them in order of least dreadful to most dreadful.
#8. Penny is the cute blonde who lives across the hall and keeps Leonard, Raj, and Howard's testosterone levels boiling and their imaginations steaming. She wears shorts and tank tops that accent and reveal all her best assets. When she dresses up, though, she is mostly stylish but never quite modest. Okay, that was before she got married. Since she and Leonard got married she seems to prefer hiding her assets under slacks and shirts that border on being frumpy. How droll. And how unfortunate for the male fans of the show.
#7. Stewart, the comic book store owner--dear Stewart. His clothes are so nondescript that I can almost not picture them. It's as though he shops at the store under the bargain basement. He wears pants, of course, and shirts that are best described as baggy and sloppy. Colorless. Stewart's inadequacies and inhibitions scream, "Don't hurt me. I'm timid," through his clothes.
#6. Sheldon, the tall, skinny genius, the most clueless of the clueless, wears a long sleeved pullover
under a short sleeved pullover. The top pullover is usually emblazoned with some picture or epithet that expresses his love for science or science fiction. Not entirely shabby. But a problem arises when he gets dressed up in his favorite suit, an ill fitting black plaid--or is it a checked?--eyesore with sleeves and pant legs too short for his spidery arms and legs. Somewhere in America there is a tailor who should be punished for making that suit.
#5. Bernadette, Howard's wife, is a tiny pixie with a shrill voice and the attitude of a wild boar.
Though they are friends, Penny admits to being afraid of Bernadette. Howard cringes when she asserts herself. Probably no one has ever had the courage to ask her why she always wears a waist-length cardigan over all her blouses and dresses. A couple of exceptions, though. She doesn't wear a cardigan over formal wear, and she didn't wear one over her lovely wedding gown. Probably couldn't find a white one.
#4. Leonard lives in Pasadena where he can almost always rely on the weather to be perfect--and yet he is never seen not wearing a jacket with a hoodie. Okay, since he got married the hoodies have strangely disappeared. Maybe Penny trashed them along with her shorts and tank tops.
#3. Raj, the adorable Indian friend (we know he's adorable because he told us) bundles up in nice pants, a shirt that we can only partially see, a sweater the origin of which defies the imagination, and a jacket. As he is from India we can assume that he finds the weather in Pasadena chilly, yet there is no accounting for his choice of fabric design combinations. My high school home economics teachers would be appoplectic.
#2. Amy, Sheldon's long suffering girl friend, has Raj beat when it comes to layering clothing and combining fabric design shockers. Her skirts are long and wooly; her cardigans are long and buttoned over who knows what sort of blouse or sweater, which is buttoned up to the chin. Her stockings are normally opaque, fitting into, no doubt, her great grandmother's gardening shoes. If Amy dresses for comfort, it's for the comfort of her soul, not the comfort of her body.
#1. Some people tell Sheldon that he looks like a preying mantis. So what is the opposite of a preying mantis? That would be Howard. He's barely taller than his dainty wife and has the body of a stick figure drawn by a child. On
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