Dressing socially acceptably

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To me, anybody who's wearing comfortable looking clothes would seem pleasant. I think it must be some of my sensory issues but people wearing uncomfortable clothes distract me, and I can't take them seriously. Other people wearing very high heels, very tight jeans, wool sweater under a hot sun, thin shorts in the cold wind...etc. all bother me.

I just saw a lady in the mall today wearing a big patterned yellow dress that's dragging on the floor by a few inches. I couldn't figure out how she walked. I tried not look at her again.

I dress in a unisex Mod fashion, because I like the clothes, and the era.

(I'm a girl)

I have worn the same basic style of clothing since high school. I consider it classic (hopefully the rest of the world isn't laughing at me, lol) Anyway, I wear jeans, the boot cut style, and a fitted plain t-shirt style top (attractive and clean cut without being sleazy) with sandals if its nice out. I prefer the Earth Shoes and have worn out more than one pair. I am a near vegan but I do have an old pair of leather shoes that I wear when its cold out. I have a few peasant type shirts (think 1972) and wear those when I am feeling dressy.

Reading the fashion mags I found a article on what to splurge and what to scab on clothing wise. I just follow those rules and I usually look acceptable to the world.

I've just read an article on the Times website where David Mitchell the comedian wrote about the way he dresses:

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life ... 101910.ece

“What I’ve tried to do all my life is wear normal clothes by which no one will judge me, and as a result I end up looking like a young fogey.

“As a child I liked dressing up as various characters, but I relied solely on a black mac. It became a frock coat for the 18th century, or the coat Doctor Who wore, even though he never wore a black mac. I also had a horrible patterned jumper that in my mind looked exactly like Captain Kirk’s.

“I would be better suited to an era when there were rigid dress codes; in her book Watching the English, Kate Fox says the British used to be the best-dressed people in the world because we had rules. You had a morning suit for weddings, black or white tie for the evening and tweeds for hunting. Then the formality of occasions dissipated and you had to use your own judgment – that’s when it all went to s***.

“I find it very odd that at black-tie dinners men have increasingly started to improvise. This is madness – it leads us down the hellish road that women have been led down, where you can’t wear the same thing twice and you’re never quite sure whether your dress will be deemed as glamorous as everyone else’s.

“I’m most comfortable wearing whatever I think won’t get any attention, although I feel pretty comfortable wearing a costume, too, because then everyone knows it’s not my choice. If you turn up in a pirate sketch dressed as a pirate, no one’s going to say, “What the hell have you come as?

“The great advantage of my approach to clothing is that I’ll never need to change. I’ll need more comfortable shoes, but I’ve essentially got my retirement-home look sorted.

“I abhor the thought of being vain and that is a sort of vanity in itself. I’m vain about not appearing vain. I was brought up to think you shouldn’t care too much about your appearance, but it should be smart and respectful to whom you’re meeting. I’ve clung to that because it feels safe and because I know I can’t look the best, so I may as well concentrate on something where I might actually excel. Acceptable is all I’m ever going to achieve. What a miserable life – straining to look acceptable.”

I LOVE David Mitchell! Thanks for posting that.

I'm going to start describing myself as a "young fogey" now.

Activists wear pretty dull clothes. Green/brown earthy colours and a Che Guevara t-shirt.
I used to wear a green army jacket, Che t-shirt or my socialist alliance t-shirt, brown/black pants and converse shoes. Sometimes I wore a black and white striped t-shirt.