Einstein's Closet?

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I tend to wear v-necked tops because i instinctively knew (god knows how -I've seen it on fashion programmes since though confirming it) that it was a more flattering neckline and didnt emphasize a certain area like normal t-shirts (I'd got uncomfortable comments from males before when I'd worn round-necked tops).
I like things to fit my shape- probably because I get paranoid about my weight easily (thanks to my female relatives ) I prefer natural fabrics and tend to wear natural colours. I also prefer cords to jeans, much more comfortable.

I don't mind clothes at all; in fact I quite like them. I like to look nice and respectable when I go out, like when I hang out downtown, or when I go to church, or when I go places with my parents.

I also go ballroom dancing once a month and I make a point out of wearing a skirt or a dress. I think it's bad form for a lady to wear jeans to a ballroom; it makes me feel as if she doesn't care about her appearance. Knowing how to dress for the occassion is part of the social graces. If it's a country dance hall, by all means wear jeans, but to a ballroom where it's mostly traditional ballroom, dress up!

When I was a little girl, I didn't much like dresses because I found them too troublesome.

In high school and college, I was prone to wearing bright colors and loud retro-style clothes. My father is red-green colorblind, and when I was in high school, I am positive that Daddy would stick his tongue out at me at least once a week--my bright clothes must've looked a horrid shade of gray to him!! !

I still tend to wear bright colors, and I still wear retro clothes, but the "craziness" of my clothes has tended to tone down as I age, and especially as I'm looking for work.

Nearly all my clothes are solid color. I have a closet full of solid color shirts, short-sleeved and long-sleeved. A drawer full of solid color sweatshirts. Solid color socks. 6 pair of plain blue jeans and three pair of plain cotton dress pants. I don't think I own more than one or two patterned pieces of clothing. Plain loose cotton jumpers when I decide I can't stand the thought of a waistband around my middle. Plain "dressy" dresses when social custom dictates, but long enough that I can get away with wearing knee-high stockings and never need to wear that torturous invention known as pantyhose. Never lace or sequins or beads.

Today I'm in one-size-too-big denim shorts and a solid color cotton polo shirt. Always shoeless, summer and winter, unless I have to leave the house.

i love clothes. i hate fashion.

my (burgeoning) wardrobe contains many frilly filly fancies: original dresses dating from the 1920's through to now. My favourite type of dress would be a 1940's silk or crepe tea dress. i have a multitude of original nylons, gloves, corsets, wigs, hats and bonnets, 7 inch platforms. luckily i do go to places where some of the above are appropriate, otherwise i mostly wear a black knee length pencil skirt and an army surpless t-shirt (for work) or black cord flares.

i do get quite emotionally attached to my clothes. most of these things are costume and i will wear for fun or clubbing only, but i enjoy collecting them. however, i do not like fashion. if you liked a garment last year, how can you not like it this year? why would you want to wear something that may not suit you and every else has one very similar (unless it is something fairly plain)?

it is interesting what you say about women exposing flesh. perhaps if you did have some pin-ups around the house it would help you aclimatise to the view and you will feel less awkward in public?

i do sympathise because i get the flip side to what you are saying. i have trouble in hot weather that i still want to cover up (even if it makes me too hot) because i cannot deal with the attention from men. oh, that makes me sound awfully full of myself. but i don't mean it like that, i think it is more like this: if a man looks at me for too long i notice and (because i am AS?) i do not know how to give the appropriate (yes you can look, no i am not interested, i am confident) signals back nor can i ignor it and i do feel confused and violated. is yours a body language problem too?

oh, this is all very lond winded. you can pm me on this if you want to carry the discussion further.