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Random question but with a deeper reason behind it... What kind of clothes do you wear on a daily basis and why?
Many years ago I used to dress in a very sloppy "hip-hop" style. Then I switched completely to super formal clothes all the time (yeah, I was wearing a suit every day, even to walk my dog). Then I got tired of how uncomfortable it was and switched to more of a minimalist, slightly outdoor-style (basically just clean white t-shirts and simple neutral-colored pants/shorts designed to be comfortable and made by outdoor brands). And I don't mean that I dress like a complete slob, in a cheap fleece tracksuit - just very neutral outdoor-inspired stuff but not anything bright or overly outdoor-like.
Recently after spending some time in fancier areas I've been thinking about upgrading my style to wear better-fitting pants and dress shirts rather than t-shirts.
But once you start wearing clothes that are designed for freedom of movement and utility (deep pockets) it's really, really hard to go back to wearing "regular" restrictive pants that limit your movements, with all the stuff you have in your pockets falling out or digging into your hips when you sit down. Same goes for dress shirts and any other stuff like that. It's super uncomfortable and impractical.
This brings me to my deeper reason for this question: if you don't enjoy dressing up and want to do it simply because it's a social norm or because you want to look like other "respected" people, isn't that a weak move that's sort of an act of self-betrayal? Unless you get something out of it (like, your potential customers are more likely to do deals with you based on how you dress), why would you dress up?
In the end, isn't clothing another kind of societal script, too? For some reason, many of the richest and most powerful people wear simple stuff, too, and it's mostly the pretenders that wear flashy clothes.
Many years ago I used to dress in a very sloppy "hip-hop" style. Then I switched completely to super formal clothes all the time (yeah, I was wearing a suit every day, even to walk my dog). Then I got tired of how uncomfortable it was and switched to more of a minimalist, slightly outdoor-style (basically just clean white t-shirts and simple neutral-colored pants/shorts designed to be comfortable and made by outdoor brands). And I don't mean that I dress like a complete slob, in a cheap fleece tracksuit - just very neutral outdoor-inspired stuff but not anything bright or overly outdoor-like.
Recently after spending some time in fancier areas I've been thinking about upgrading my style to wear better-fitting pants and dress shirts rather than t-shirts.
But once you start wearing clothes that are designed for freedom of movement and utility (deep pockets) it's really, really hard to go back to wearing "regular" restrictive pants that limit your movements, with all the stuff you have in your pockets falling out or digging into your hips when you sit down. Same goes for dress shirts and any other stuff like that. It's super uncomfortable and impractical.
This brings me to my deeper reason for this question: if you don't enjoy dressing up and want to do it simply because it's a social norm or because you want to look like other "respected" people, isn't that a weak move that's sort of an act of self-betrayal? Unless you get something out of it (like, your potential customers are more likely to do deals with you based on how you dress), why would you dress up?
In the end, isn't clothing another kind of societal script, too? For some reason, many of the richest and most powerful people wear simple stuff, too, and it's mostly the pretenders that wear flashy clothes.
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