do most aspies understand the meaning of fashion and trends

Post Reply New Topic

Cool idea!

I get it but I think it's highly impractical. If someone insists on wearing clothes that are in style then they end up spending so much money on clothes they won't wear more than a few times. I can replace my entire wardrobe for the price of one or two "fashionable" outfits.

Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn

I've been wearing the same hoodie all winter, aside from my uniform.

I have some analysis of it, but overall, I just wear clothes that will make me not stand out, whatever it is. I used to wear military clothes, as they were really practical, but they got me really badly profiled, so I mostly stopped that, and only wear them mixed with other clothes. So now I wear random "preppy" brands simply because they won't cause me to stand out to other people. They're really cheap, too, I pay usually 33c-$1 for each preppy brand shirt I buy, and about $4 per pair of jeans. Yay. So in some ways I understand the mechanics of fashion. If it was up to me, I'd probably wear milsurp clothes everyday, but it's not, so I wear preppy clothes instead.

I think the dumbest fashion lately for men is those stupid Tapout and Affliction shirts. YEAH BRO I TRAIN UFC YO



As much as I caved with wearing the preppy clothes, that just looks ridiculous, but it seems to be all the rage in cool Natty Ice drinking bro fashion right now. Bleh.

I don't get fashion.

You can't....there aren't enough letters for one thing.

Seriously, my guess is that fashionable clothes are often revealing in a way that "ordinary" clothes aren't......and traditional societies tend to see out-of-the-ordinary body exposure as humiliating for the person who is exposed........was not Our Lord stripped before they crucified him? (NB I'm an atheist, but I think my point remains valid). Near-nudity can sometimes also physically be a somewhat vulnerable state compared with battle fatigues or a boiler suit and Doc Martins.

So traditionalists would in my view tend to see sexualised fashion items as a humiliation for the wearer, and close family members, particularly husbands, might also feel some degree of humiliation themselves if one of their young ladies were to get into the more sexualised aspects of Western fashion.

Oh, and I'd feel humiliated if I were wearing those half-mast gangster DJ trousers, and if I were female I'd probably feel at least a tad humiliated if a close partner of mine started to dress like that. To my mind, they just look so freaking stupid.

But yes, it takes a bit of figuring out if you're not familiar with traditional values.

You couldn't run afterburners if you did.

I never cared enough about "fashion" to really consider it for myself.

How someone dresses up and feels good about themselves via the image in the mirror, eludes me for some reason of how the feel good mechanism works, unless it has do with a dynamic of exerting a presence within a group, as influence or subconscious persuasion . If you were living on a deserted island, like Gilligan's Island, I doubt one would strut around like the "movie star."

When a bachelor, I used to go to the clothing store once a year to buy everything I needed. I wear the same jeans and same style plain pullover shirts , same haircut as always.

i recognize the trends but i just don't really care. i wear what i like and i don't worry what everyone else is wearing. i don't really get that hyped up about shopping, it's mostly just stuff to waste money on.

If it feels good, wear it.