Why do you wear certain clothes? What are your faves and why?

[k8_doran]

Hello!

I just wondered if you think that clothes have a language? If so, how does it work? How can you communicate things to people throught clothes,

WHY do you wear certain clothes? Any examples or just your thought greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Kate

[andy-hughes]

As a teenager, I was never allowed tio externalise my tribal associations by dress code, so always stood out a mile, looking really 'straight' with my short hair and v-neck jumpers while my friends were all hippies.

Now, I still look the same, but internally, I am a nineteen-year-old rebel, so I look, and feel the same as I did then.

The great advantage has been, I have always moved easily in 'straight' company, because I look the part, and in 'alternative' company because I speak the language.

My clothes communicate exactly nothing about what I am like, or what I think and feel - and I love the disguise element.

As a freelance music writer, I attend concerts frequently, and I stand out like a rabbi at a christening, but I'm as big a rocker as any of them, and quite a lot more than most!

I really love people who wear their music affiliations or personality in their appearence - go for it!

[Bohne]

I think my clothes are me...

I don't wear any colours/shades apart from blue, black, white, brown, beige.
I am not a fashion addict, I like what I like, and at the moment, I'll have to make do with what I still fit in (being six months pregnant...)

[kazminx]

I wear business clothes (suits etc), casual clothes and sometimes clubbing clothes. i never feel confident in high necked tops or bulky clothes. if im wearing a business suit or anything else, i always show a wee bit of cleavage..dont know why but i just feel confident..its like my secret weapon. i train people in confidence/self esteem and have discovered that the lower the self image, the more they cover up and wear darker clothes..hiding i suppose. i am very comfortable showing my best asset and covering up my worst (legs & tum!!)..i was at a work night out lately and the women there said they admired that about me! so there!!

[mkt]

people who wear slogan t-shirts have nothing original or interesting to say themselves. apparently.

[andy-hughes]

I don't know mkt, it does depend on the shirt - and the slogan.

I saw a baby about three months old with a tee-shirt advising "Teething - it's the pits!" You can't really argue with that can you!

[zara 4]

Well i'm always in jeans and black boots,big old biker boots, thats how i'm comfy,and thats me,I NEVER have done skirts and stilletto's,(but that would be hard on a bike anyway)I've never been a fashion victim,i'll wear what i'm comfy in,and to hell with what other people want me to wear,

[asciwhite]

Hi K8, For me it's pyjamas.....pyjamas........pyjamas I can just imagine what that says to the tescos delivery person!!! Why do I wear them? comfort...

Out and about, linen... I'm such a scruff..Why wear linen? because it's a natural cloth, and yep...comfy

But I do scrub up well when needed, and I love flowing beautiful dresses, a real magpie when it comes to scarves, real shoes and by that I mean good heels, and, thankfully I was taught how to walk in them. I think thats one of my pet dislikes, a woman who wobbles in her heels. :-\

I'm not sure if clothes have a language in the normal sense but uniform does have a language, whilst some uniforms bring respect and others bring fear.