Do people with aspergers have a certain dress sense?

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02 Jul 2019, 1:01 pm

Most Asperger's people tend to be poor dressers, in my experience. I myself, however, am the best dresser I know, and a woman of my one-time acquaintance, whom I strongly suspect of having had Asperger's, was perhaps the best dressed woman of my age I've known.

I wear suits and ties pretty much whenever I'm outside of my house. She used to wear lovely suits and blouses - and I never saw her once in trousers. I wish I'd proposed! :heart: :heart: :heart:



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02 Jul 2019, 1:26 pm

I like fashionable but comfortable.


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02 Jul 2019, 1:36 pm

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Most Asperger's people tend to be poor dressers, in my experience. I myself, however, am the best dresser I know, and a woman of my one-time acquaintance, whom I strongly suspect of having had Asperger's, was perhaps the best dressed woman of my age I've known.

I wear suits and ties pretty much whenever I'm outside of my house. She used to wear lovely suits and blouses - and I never saw her once in trousers. I wish I'd proposed! :heart: :heart: :heart:


Can you reacquaint with her? It does seem you were rather smitten with this beguiling mystery woman ...


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02 Jul 2019, 2:44 pm

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Prometheus18 wrote:
Most Asperger's people tend to be poor dressers, in my experience. I myself, however, am the best dresser I know, and a woman of my one-time acquaintance, whom I strongly suspect of having had Asperger's, was perhaps the best dressed woman of my age I've known.

I wear suits and ties pretty much whenever I'm outside of my house. She used to wear lovely suits and blouses - and I never saw her once in trousers. I wish I'd proposed! :heart: :heart: :heart:


Can you reacquaint with her? It does seem you were rather smitten with this beguiling mystery woman ...


I fear not, although quite frankly, a large part of me would be terrified by the possibility of marrying her; one could go insane from that kind of happiness.

Nevertheless, no other woman I've ever met comes close to being so perfect an embodiment of my ideal of femininity which, among other things, is the reason for my love of art.

I rather look at her in the way Dante did Beatrice; it's an abstract, spiritual kind of love. She didn't look a bit like Rosetti's Beatrix, though.



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02 Jul 2019, 4:18 pm

I dress like a homeless person, only I'm clean. I like soft things. When I go for an interview, I race home and get rid of my dress clothes asap. I also hate the feeling of shoes on my feet.


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02 Jul 2019, 4:21 pm

Comfort is probably more important to me than most people, but I also like being fashionably casual. I don’t like to put forth a lot of effort into what I wear, but I certainly buy things that I like and feel confident in.

I won’t wear anything that’s fussy, and I don’t buy clothes that might need ironed.

I prefer fabrics that are made out of cotton and are soft.


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02 Jul 2019, 4:22 pm

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I dress like a homeless person, only I'm clean. I like soft things. When I go for an interview, I race home and get rid of my dress clothes asap. I also hate the feeling of shoes on my feet.


Getting out of uncomfortable clothes and putting on comfy ones is a wonderful feeling...


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02 Jul 2019, 4:23 pm

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Most Asperger's people tend to be poor dressers, in my experience. I myself, however, am the best dresser I know, and a woman of my one-time acquaintance, whom I strongly suspect of having had Asperger's, was perhaps the best dressed woman of my age I've known.

I wear suits and ties pretty much whenever I'm outside of my house. She used to wear lovely suits and blouses - and I never saw her once in trousers. I wish I'd proposed! :heart: :heart: :heart:


Can you reacquaint with her? It does seem you were rather smitten with this beguiling mystery woman ...


I fear not, although quite frankly, a large part of me would be terrified by the possibility of marrying her; one could go insane from that kind of happiness.

Nevertheless, no other woman I've ever met comes close to being so perfect an embodiment of my ideal of femininity which, among other things, is the reason for my love of art.

I rather look at her in the way Dante did Beatrice; it's an abstract, spiritual kind of love. She didn't look a bit like Rosetti's Beatrix, though.


:heart:


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02 Jul 2019, 4:25 pm

Also an hourglass, so I tend towards tight fitting clothes that show off my figure. I like bright colors.



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02 Jul 2019, 8:44 pm

Jeans, t-shirts, and comfy shoes, lots of black.



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02 Jul 2019, 9:00 pm

I like wearing graphic t-shirts. Depending on the weather, I'm okay with shorts or jeans for my pants.



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02 Jul 2019, 9:46 pm

I wear:

At work: jeans, nice and clean, with a T-shirt, and cap-toed dress boots. Or I wear replicas of WWII combat boots.

At play!

button-up shirt or Edwardian-style cricket shirt, khakis, belt, maybe a necktie of a nice brown color with a little pattern. Hat: linen flat cap or baggy green newsboy cap in wool. No whiskers, ever. Art Deco tie bar, silver pocket watch on a strap, maybe a vest (sweater or waistcoat style, IDK) and a jacket if it's chilly. Suspenders have buttons, belts are solid cowhide.

At church!

black pinstripe suit, white shirt, tie. Or: super-dark blue blazer, khaki pants, tie.

In bed!
flannelette pyjamas, very baggy, in normal earth-tone striped pattern. I look like a grown-up version of the boy on the old Fisk Tires ads. Zzzz...

Trying to add:

high-waisted "fishtail" trousers because they're super comfortable. No belt means no snagging on my extremely bony hips, and cotton materials are nice.

Straw boater hat: picked up an amazing one recently, fitted to my size, but don't wear them around here because the Bro Population tends to harass on anyone who doesn't look like Brock Turner. These are my favorite summer hats; get the old heavy kind that feel like plywood, not the cheap replicas. Good ones weigh a ton and are stiff.

In wintertime I wear an original Depression-era woolen overcoat, which is amazingly warm and fuzzy. :D

New favorite clothes: Darcy Clothing of England makes some awesome ones if I can afford them, but I can't do that often! So I bought an antique Singer sewing machine, the cast-iron type, and patterns. My next dress shirt is going to be a replica of a 1920s style one, made in all-natural linen on my ancient but rugged little Singer.


(Clothes I hate: hourglass-shaped suits, slim-fit anything, skinny jeans, underwear of all types, ankle socks, T-shirts as outerwear, T-shirts with colored cloth or designs printed on them, that sort of thing. I don't wear sneakers, sandals, or baseball caps; athletic clothing is out of the question.)

I love itchy, crunchy, lets-the-air-through vintage clothes, and happen to look all right while wearing them, which helps. It's hard to make an aspie look good if I bounce when I walk and stare at the ground but hey. I look like a combo of St. Aloysius Gonzaga and Harold Lloyd.


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03 Jul 2019, 1:32 pm

There is a dividing line between what I used to wear and what I wear now.

I used to wear dull colors (usually black) and loose clothing. I had issues doing laundry and would wear the same clothes for extended periods. I would wear hoodies a lot as well. Clothes existed to hide my nakedness and that's it.

I had a moment where I became obsessed with my image and made effort to change it. Now I dress with tight, form fitting clothes made of pleasant fabrics and I gravitate towards bright colors. Laying around the house I will usually wear loose pajama pants because they feel so nice :)

I have always dressed oddly without consideration of social reception. I've traveled from looking awful to looking "good but eccentric."


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03 Jul 2019, 2:00 pm

Prometheus18 wrote:
Most Asperger's people tend to be poor dressers, in my experience. I myself, however, am the best dresser I know, and a woman of my one-time acquaintance, whom I strongly suspect of having had Asperger's, was perhaps the best dressed woman of my age I've known.

I wear suits and ties pretty much whenever I'm outside of my house. She used to wear lovely suits and blouses - and I never saw her once in trousers. I wish I'd proposed! :heart: :heart: :heart:


Aww. If I could bring her to you I would... (In theory... As you could be in a city or even in another country or area outside of my safe enviroment).



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03 Jul 2019, 2:20 pm

Mountain Goat wrote:
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Most Asperger's people tend to be poor dressers, in my experience. I myself, however, am the best dresser I know, and a woman of my one-time acquaintance, whom I strongly suspect of having had Asperger's, was perhaps the best dressed woman of my age I've known.

I wear suits and ties pretty much whenever I'm outside of my house. She used to wear lovely suits and blouses - and I never saw her once in trousers. I wish I'd proposed! :heart: :heart: :heart:


Aww. If I could bring her to you I would... (In theory... As you could be in a city or even in another country or area outside of my safe enviroment).


She was the only woman my age (or any other) I've ever liked in more than a Platonic way: she had excellent taste in music and culture (she was a classical pianist); she was pretty in a delightfully modest way, with her ankle-length skirts and tweed jackets; she was a lover of classical literature; she was meek and demure in a quintessentially feminine way; perfectly bourgeois in her background, values and tastes.

It seems inconceivably improbable I'll meet another such woman again. I suppose such women disappeared with the Cultural Revolution of the sixties. What an ugly revolution it was.



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03 Jul 2019, 2:22 pm

Those sorts of women do exist. I see them on a regular basis when I ride the subway.