VintageGent’s Menswear Daily

Boxing In, Boxing Up

Just an idle thought…and this may be just a rhetorical question.

Some psychologists say that the desire to have many little boxes is an outward sign of compartmentalizing one’s life and one’s relationships. In otherwords, if one struggles to force one’s life into neat little stackable boxes seperated by inlaid lids and cocooned by ring bags, than one can certainly do it with their knick knacks and their accessories!  Or is that vice versa?  The outward decor is the sign of a deranged mind.

But….Can’t a box just be a box? Heck, even the most freewheeling folks need to put their stuff SOMEWHERE. (Unless the point is that their “stuff” is freewheeling, too, and should be allowed to fall where it pleases anywhere at any time).

So…is a valet box or trinket box just a box or does it have a more Freudian meaning? What does it say about you if you happen to collect boxes?