do most aspies understand the meaning of fashion and trends

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Fashion is an artform like any other, we shouldn't be so quick to demonize it because we perceive it as being superficial, "fashion" is what lets us be unique in our appearence and allows us to set ourselves apart, it tells people just by looking at you "I'm someone just a bit different".

Though I think most of us dress rather normally.

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Yeah I understand the meaning, but I do not care about following current fashion trends and stuff I like to wear what I like.

I get fashion and trends, but I don't follow it because whatever's "in style" at the moment usually doesn't feel good when I'm wearing it.

I don't know quite what defines an understanding of fashion, but I think I have a coherent, practical grasp of what it's about.

I see fashion as a herd game, which one might wish to play in order to underline belonging in a group. However, as the latest fashion items are usually rather more expensive than my clobber, I feel that there's an element of exclusion, a filter that keeps out those with less disposable income and acts as a status symbol or resource display, which is perhaps important when establishing who is the alpha if the group is a (competitive?) hierarchy. I suppose the "herd game" thing may be more of a uniform game than a fashion thing, if the clothing and accessories are relatively fixed over time.

I get the comments on art, and I think art is a good thing when it comes to clothes, but I don't really hold with the idea of a highly-paid fashion designer being the best person to design clothes for a community. I prefer ordinary folks to work out how to use a sewing machine and roll their own artistic creations. Naturally there may be some people with more of a flair for such art, but I don't think it's good to put a small number of artists (from a population of millions) on a pedestal as the top dogs......it could work better in a small group, but with a big group I think it just ends up serving big business interests.

For some folks it's just a bit of fun for a large wallet, trying on funny hats for the sheer joy of seeing what happens. I have a bit of money to waste these days, so I don't feel so negative about such things as I once did, but I could never see conventional fashion and trends as being particularly important to me or my lifestyle - just a bauble really, but I see no need to destroy it.

I'm not sure if my thoughts are compatible to the actual question, but sometimes I get confused by fashion, and I also think it gets a bit out of hand. Like (for females) it is now ''the fashion'' to wear denim shorts over black leggins, but somehow wearing a checked duffel coat with trainers ''looks funny''. Personally I think girls going round in denim shorts over leggins look more ridiculous than somebody wearing a checked duffel coat with trainers, because I know some people have to wear certain shoes due to health reasons on their feet.

Also it is fashionably ''wrong'' to wear blouses low enough to see your bra, but it is fashionably ''OK'' to wear clothes where you can see your bra straps. And men are ''allowed'' to wear clothes where you can see the top of their T-shirt underneath but women ''aren't allowed'' to wear clothes where you can see the top of their T-shirt underneath - unless it's one of those jumpers with a T-shirt that's joined to the jumper underneath.

Only British females should know what I'm talking about.

I get fashion, but most of the time I think the trends are stupid so I don't follow them. I wear what's comfortable to me. I like jeans and t-shirts and hoodies. Occassionally I go a little goth or something totally different and I love my kilt! But honestly, I have my own style and I'll keep it that way.

My clothes have to have a vintage and unisex feel to them. I don't care much for the way that young women dress these days.

I would say the latest fashion trends comes across as hideous to me.

Yeah, I think I can appreciate good artistic composition & color combinations and such, but that is different from "trendy," which changes with time.

I suppose sometimes what is trendy can be new and interesting in an artistic way, but it that doesn't often seem to be the case (but I don't keep up with fashion, so maybe there's a lot of stuff that I don't know about or see).

(This thread is making scenes from "Zoolander" play in my head, lol.)

I must admit, wearing trendy clothes and looking presentable does make me feel better about myself and makes me less socially phobic. It doesn't mean I go over the top and wear things what I don't like or what are not me. I can still find clothes I am comfortable in but still look presentable.

I think it's a waste of money to stay in fashion because then you have to keep buying clothes and keep looking at magazines and looking at what other people wear and what stores sell. I just wear what I like.

I do like high fashion and tomboy stuff but I'm too antieffort to conform to social norms which are considered trends. I hate it when mainstrean media bites whatever style I have too lol.

THIS aspie's response to the question about fashion is .... "don't know, and don't care

I really don't dress to be fashionable. I wear clothes that make me feel safe and comfortable.

Being only mildly aspie, I often *feel* what's being communicated about a person based on their clothes. The checked duffel coat with trainers example brings to mind an image (this word is used by NTs to mean something comletely non-visual by the way) of social ineptness, but if models started wearing it, other 'popular' people would then do the same and the meaning would change for a while in my mind and others'.

So a low-status individual is effectively lying (about their social status) by wearing fashionable clothes; I think we can safely count that as a white lie though

I used to think they new what type of clothing and colours went well together, which was something I always struggled with, but most of the time they're learning it from a magazine.
I could never keep up with fashion or even go through the effort just to dress myself up like that everyday. Even when going out it gets so tiring and I have this notion that if I spend all that time dressing up I'll probably have a disappointing night rather then just putting on what I feel is comfortable. Maybe because I put little effort into it and feel less self conscious.

One of those dress up nights is coming up in a week and given my increase in tactile sensitivity and my attachedness to my Canada hoodie or self made RAAF jacket or jeans that are never washed or old shoes that should be replaced or that mop of hair I should get cut...I should a lot of stares. I think it's Gossip Girl shirt time again. I wear the most lamest t-shirt for special lunches and dinner parties.

Actually, I might do some cosplay.