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So lately I've stopped putting any trouble into how I look. I mean, I just don't make the calculation of comfy vs. fantastic - because comfy just wins hands down. Luckily I own enough old wooly sweaters, cutoff jeans, baggy cords, hoodies, birks, and large campy t-shirts (and newly purchased, at a craft fair, flower hair clips!) that (at least in my opinion,) I look okay anyway, but this begs the question, am I just a hypocritical cretin doing this to look specifically different than before? I've always enjoyed having a particular combination of tastes and putting stuff together in interesting or just fitting ways - and I still do - I just have slightly less ingredients now. Though I wouldn't bar putting on some killer heels and a dress if I felt like it, I just - don't feel like it. I've noticed different types of people making eye contact over these last few weeks too - like dreadlocked guys in ponchos, and chicks with too-short bangs and alot of old people, which is fine, but I mean, I'm exactly the same person, and my clothing is really not so symbolic of who I am other than that day's particular mood and/or temperature and unless I deliberately create an certain image on that day just to fuck with consistancy.

Can one just be comfy ?

yeah, I know about you comitted nudists on NS. in fact, I'm now thinking of all you sitting at your comps - and now I've just become disturbed. So I'll go back to reading phd comics (http://www.phdcomics.com/). It's so depressingly true - and I'm still an undergrad.

I put very little trouble into how I look. I only convinced myself to start shaving a week ago (I'm 17 and a half). I wear shorts and a t-shirt everywhere, no matter what (church, a wedding, and pretty much any weather above freezing).

I've worn the same 4 shirts and coat for the last 5 years, in 40 states, Mexico, and Asia.. brings me luck maybe. Also, I don't like spending money on clothing.

I buy whatever looks like it will last the longest because I hate to shop for clothes.

And pants with lots of pockets.

I just go around nude and once a month take a shower with some soap.

Clothes are tools, fashions are crazy. I try not to look stupid with what I'm wearing, but I certainly don't try to look 'trendy'. I just go for the 'neutral' look.

I'm too lazy to care what I look like so I just wear the same baggy pants, T-shirt, hoody and sandals everywhere.
I'm like one of those cartoon characers whose entire wardrobe consists of two or three monochromatic, easily sketched pieces of clothing.

i only look at clothes when i buy them but first of all they do have to be comfortable... from then on whichever piece of clothing happens to be the first in my way one morning is what i wear for the day (mostly)

T-shirt. (preferably black with favorite bands, or clever phrase)

Jeans/cargo pants.

Boots.

Trendy is uncomfortable, and silly.

I'm a mood dresser. I just dress however I feel at the time. :)

im a guy so this thread probably doesnt apply to me. i dont put much care into how fashionable i am. i own a total of 4 pairs of shoes (dress shoes, running shoes, boots, my everyday pair of shoes) i dont have much variety in my clothing either, if you watch waht i wear for a week you will probably see me wear the same thing a couple of times. if i like wearing it then i wear it, if i dont like wearing it then i dont.

Can't really give you an opinion. I'm almost always in uniform and soaked an a combination of oil, hydraulic fluid, sweat, and JP-8.

I don't go with fashion, ever. Most of what's "fashionable" tends to be either uncomfortable, or downright ugly, in most cases both.

But I do care a lot about what I wear and how I look in it. Who says that clothes that are comfortable can't look good?
Personally, I like clothes that show figure, but aren't too tight. I love tops with deep cleavage, and I like skirts and trousers that feel soft and flowing around my legs.
That doesn't mean that I don't own jeans, but I only wear it when working around the house, or when hiking.

I think me and perhaps some others here are doing a little too much straining to pat ourselves on the back regarding fashion. We are all dictated to by fashion to one degree or another in that it dictates what is available to us to buy as clothing, since I'm not about to start making my own clothes.

We just don't pay attention to the latest trends in what we wear. But at least I am limited to whats on the rack closest to the door, and that's dictated to a degree by fashion.

I generally wear a long sleaved t shirt and jeans with big pockets.

What I don't get, and I don't know if you have it in America, is that thing with men wearing pink. Ordinary men. Not because they like pink but because reasons like "only a real man has the guts to wear pink" or whatever reasons they are told ot wear pink. It makes me sad.

So lately I've stopped putting any trouble into how I look. I mean, I just don't make the calculation of comfy vs. fantastic - because comfy just wins hands down. Luckily I own enough old wooly sweaters, cutoff jeans, baggy cords, hoodies, birks, and large campy t-shirts (and newly purchased, at a craft fair, flower hair clips!) that (at least in my opinion,) I look okay anyway, but this begs the question, am I just a hypocritical cretin doing this to look specifically different than before? I've always enjoyed having a particular combination of tastes and putting stuff together in interesting or just fitting ways - and I still do - I just have slightly less ingredients now. Though I wouldn't bar putting on some killer heels and a dress if I felt like it, I just - don't feel like it. I've noticed different types of people making eye contact over these last few weeks too - like dreadlocked guys in ponchos, and chicks with too-short bangs and alot of old people, which is fine, but I mean, I'm exactly the same person, and my clothing is really not so symbolic of who I am other than that day's particular mood and/or temperature and unless I deliberately create an certain image on that day just to fuck with consistancy.

Can one just be comfy ?

yeah, I know about you comitted nudists on NS. in fact, I'm now thinking of all you sitting at your comps - and now I've just become disturbed. So I'll go back to reading phd comics (http://www.phdcomics.com/). It's so depressingly true - and I'm still an undergrad.

It is good and sane to free the fashion slave within you, unless and until it negatively affects your quality of life.

I don't spend any real time or money on my clothes but people still compliment me on them so I guess I just must have taste.

Who's wearing clothes anyway?!? :cool: (Shades don't count!)

It is good and sane to free the fashion slave within you, unless and until it negatively affects your quality of life.

yeah, as long as you are dressing appropriately to your daily circumstances youre fine.

you (krietzmoorland) can already tell that your new clothing choices affects how people react to you. as long as you are fine with that, your clothes are OK.

dressing fashionably is like being "ON" all the time. you are always actively presenting yourself to the world as a certain kind of person. dressing in bulky sweaters and jeans is declaring yourself as being "OFF". its saying you arent trying to attract anyone or convince anyone that you are a --oh i dont know how to say it-- young career woman trying to take on the world maybe. you can still BE that kind of person but you arent advertising it to everyone who sees you. and, it seems to me, that, as notbad said, it frees you from being a slave to other people's taste and other people's opinion of what you should be wearing.

as long as you dont wear cutoff jeans to your job and as long as you have something cool to wear when you need something cool to wear (and as long as you actually make the effort to wear it when needed) you are just making different clothing choices than you used to.

I tend to view my appearance as a reflection of whomever I am with, so if I go out in public with my kids or my husband I try to wear something that will not embarrass them, in fact when I go out alone I try not to wear anything that might embarrass them in case I run into someone who knows them.

My typical garb on a typical day includes jeans and a blouse, on Thursdays I dress professional because I teach and have appointments with clients, and on Fridays I wear my sweats and a shirt because I teach dance, that's the only day that I go out of the house wearing anything like that, I can rationalize it because my shirt says that I am a dance teacher, so people can assume that I actually did get up and dress like that for a reason, not like I rolled out of bed and went about my day.

At home I pretty much wear my PJ's all the time, I get dressed about 2pm so that I look "put together" when my husband gets home, but other than that, I look like I do right now, I just got home from church and changed out of my dress into a pair of flannel PJ pants and a Rolling Stones shirt ;)

The whole fashion trend thing is more or less inescapable... If you decide what to wear on the basis of rejecting a specific trend, all you're doing is choosing a different trend based around that opposition. You aren't alone, unique or in any way "different" because of it. Call it an equal and opposite reaction if you like, but all you are doing is spawning a new trend based around being the anti-thesis of something else.

What the fuck does it really matter? Are you really so pretentious that you absolutely must ridicule and defy every group of people you associate with "main stream?" Does it make even the slightest bit of difference that you only buy clothes from the Salvation Army because you loath those misguided sheep who fund evil corporations that eat babies? No. Guess what? You're still part of a trend, your "anti-fashion" bullshit IS STILL FASHION!

Honestly, this post-modern counter culture bullshit doesn't make you even the slightest bit better then your average Hot Topic emo bandy freak. Say what you want about the insecurity of those shaped by popular trends, your desperation to disassociate yourself from them and sling ridicule reeks of the same shit.

Wear whatever the hell you want. Wear whatever is appropriate for the situation.* Finally, cut the pseudo-tribal bullshit and leave everyone else alone to wear what they want.

*For the love of God, don't show up at a classy dinner or a funeral in a Godsmack t-shirt, cargo pants and combat boots just to be a "non-conformist," you actually will look like an asshole...

Wear whatever the hell you want. Wear whatever is appropriate for the situation.* Finally, cut the pseudo-tribal bullshit and leave everyone else alone to wear what they want.

*For the love of God, don't show up at a classy dinner or a funeral in a Godsmack t-shirt, cargo pants and combat boots just to be a "non-conformist," you actually will look like an asshole...
darn skippy, if people would quit showing up to the Opera in Juicy pants, and halter tops I would be happy too.

Seriously, I go there to have a nice evening with my husband, he wears a tux, I wear my formal. I don't want to see someone walking around it sweats with glitter words on their ass. :headbang:

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darn skippy, if people would quit showing up to the Opera in Juicy pants, and halter tops I would be happy too.
Hey, no fair! I only ever did that once.
Jeez, you get just the slightest bit drunk before one showing of The Magic Flute and nobody will ever let you live it down . . .

People tell me I have a good sense of style. I like clothes...

darn skippy, if people would quit showing up to the Opera in Juicy pants, and halter tops I would be happy too.

Seriously, I go there to have a nice evening with my husband, he wears a tux, I wear my formal. I don't want to see someone walking around it sweats with glitter words on their ass. :headbang:

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Yeah, no kidding.

It's perfectly alright to go with your friends to a movie or concert in with your band t-shirt, ghetto fab outfit, glittery pants, etc, etc... I'll go out in t-shirt and jeans if it's no big deal, but if it's a nice theater and I'm going to see Hamlet you can bet your ass I'm going to put on a nice button down shirt and slacks at least. Maybe even a sport coat and tie. There is nothing wrong with being conscious of your surroundings and being considerate doesn't make you some kind of unclean leper in your little counter culture niche.

Trilby63;11691701']I generally wear a long sleaved t shirt and jeans with big pockets.

What I don't get, and I don't know if you have it in America, is that thing with men wearing pink. Ordinary men. Not because they like pink but because reasons like "only a real man has the guts to wear pink" or whatever reasons they are told ot wear pink. It makes me sad.

so true. you may think yourself the bigger man because you're wearing pink, but that still doesn't remove the fact that..ermm..you're wearing pink, dude.

I remember having to write an english essay on this topic (fashion: who really cares?). i tried to make it intelligent and thoughtful, so as to get lots of marks, but it ended up just turning into a rant about rich people who buy clothes for popularity purposes. still got good marks though, my english teachers a bit of a rebel.

People tell me I have a good sense of style. I like clothes...

Just to say, I usually wear dark coloured boxers, brown or dark shirts (some collared) with some sort of design, black converse all-stars (high tops), sometimes with a blue-green grayish Polo jacket, and tight blue-greenish jeans sagged just barely to my hips...

The whole fashion trend thing is more or less inescapable... If you decide what to wear on the basis of rejecting a specific trend, all you're doing is choosing a different trend based around that opposition. You aren't alone, unique or in any way "different" because of it. Call it an equal and opposite reaction if you like, but all you are doing is spawning a new trend based around being the anti-thesis of something else.

What the fuck does it really matter? Are you really so pretentious that you absolutely must ridicule and defy every group of people you associate with "main stream?" Does it make even the slightest bit of difference that you only buy clothes from the Salvation Army because you loath those misguided sheep who fund evil corporations that eat babies? No. Guess what? You're still part of a trend, your "anti-fashion" bullshit IS STILL FASHION!

Honestly, this post-modern counter culture bullshit doesn't make you even the slightest bit better then your average Hot Topic emo bandy freak. Say what you want about the insecurity of those shaped by popular trends, your desperation to disassociate yourself from them and sling ridicule reeks of the same shit.

Wear whatever the hell you want. Wear whatever is appropriate for the situation.* Finally, cut the pseudo-tribal bullshit and leave everyone else alone to wear what they want.

*For the love of God, don't show up at a classy dinner or a funeral in a Godsmack t-shirt, cargo pants and combat boots just to be a "non-conformist," you actually will look like an asshole...yeah, I tend to agree. Though some people do put considerably more time and effort into what they wear than others. I think there's some people that honestly don't give a shit, and some people that must be cutting edge and precisely put together at all times. Are they both trying to represent something through their choices? probably.