Hell, I BARELY dress for myself.
Aight. Let's be honest. How many of you dress for yourselves, and how many dress for others?
Submitted 1 day ago by JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
brax@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
I dress for myself unless I want to try to exploit something, then I’ll dress to fit in because a lot of normies are stupid and actually think different types of clothing means something.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 9 hours ago
Comfort is a deciding factor on how I dress. Within that, I try to pull off looks that don’t look like ass, which I seem to pull off.
spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Myself. I stopped following our work dress code after Covid and nobody has complained. Flannel and jeans and a hat == office casual now.
Mubelotix@jlai.lu 16 hours ago
Why would I even dress if it wasn’t for others?
starlinguk@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Because I’d be cold.
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I don’t know the difference. I pretty much live in business casual, but on the weekends I will wear a graphic tee instead of a white undershirt. Maybe I leave my button down shirt open. It’s what I would choose to wear in any instance I leave the house. I’m comfortable in my clothes.
Gonzako@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I’d be naked if I could tbh
Normo@lemdro.id 11 hours ago
Hell yeah
Strider@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Fuck others, I need to be comfortable.
Am Neurodivergent.
Poot@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I’ve learned, through the years, what’s comfortable for me and still produces an image that others find pleasing. That image is still very comfortable looking, mind you. I’ve been told that when I’m out I look like “Merlin on vacation…”
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Both. I like look good in clothes that fit, but I wear what I like, and always have. As a kid, my mother would pick out clothes in the morning, and I’d come down in totally different clothing. I like fashion. I am not gay. And I also like to appear well dressed. And also, 95% of my tshirts are geeky graphic tees, like my Andorian Mining Consortium (Runs from Nobody) shirt.
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Noone would ever confuse me for someone who dresses for others. Lol
Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
At home for myself, at work for others.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
we are a social species I don’t know what the difference is
Empricorn@feddit.nl 11 hours ago
You don’t know the difference between dressing for yourself vs dressing for others? Try showing up to court in an inflatable costume! Or just go a single average day out in public without pants or a shirt (even with underclothes on)…
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
yea
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
I dress for myself. And my own comfort does depend on things like social interactions and conversation dynamics and office relationships and others’ perception of me and my reputation. So dressing for myself includes dressing within social conventions.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
when I dress for myself it’s usually in funky, slightly silly clothing
when I dress for others it’s as low-effort business casual for a zoom meeting square as possible
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Function over form every day all day. Duck others.
I’ve been a jeans and T-shirt guy for well over 30 years at this point.Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Function over form every day all day.
This might as well be my motto. Appearance may reflect inside state, but I really don’t care as long as it works.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
I am kinda required to wear safety clothes
hedge_lord@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Looking at myself gives me the thoughts of despair so I dress to make people not look at me
zxqwas@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The only reason I put pants on is because it’s be arrested otherwise.
That being said, comfortable has priority over good looking and I don’t think I’ve ever had a compliment on how I dress since grandma saw me in a suit when I graduated 20 something years ago.
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
i would dress for myself but my cat will get hair over my outfit so the only time I can really dress is when I’m out of the house
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Is that a calico/tabby?
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Siegfried@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I dress so society does not put me into jail for indecency. We are not the same.
memfree@piefed.social 1 day ago
For others. If I’m staying home, I dress like I’m homeless in whatever grungy dirty things that already need washing. If I’m going out, my hair combed, my threads are fresh and I’m not getting denied entrance to the restaurant. The movie Blast from the Past was pretty stupid, but it did teach me (remind me?) that you dress nice as a courtesy to your friends.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I dress for the weather.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Tlaloc approves and smiles down at you from the pouring heavens.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I 100% dress for others, I don’t really care about clothing, and I hate to buy new clothes. I only do it because I think I may be nearing some limit of what is considered decent to wear in the presence of other people, who 100% always are better dressed than me.
The other day I was at the supermarket, and had seen they had a special offer on “plaice” I think it’s called.
Well the special offer was sold out, and I asked an employee if they had anymore.
The employee was extremely nice, and asked how many I had planned to buy? And I said 2, then he took 2 bags that had 50% more content, and wrote the price of the special offer on them, and said I should just mention his name at the register.
I though Wow that stellar service, and it was only when I came home I realized I had some of my worst pants on that are so warn they had holes in them.
I have newer pants, but I don’t like them, because they have no sway and they are some sort of stretch material to be tight, and I absolutely hate that. And I also hate shopping for clothes.Anyways because my clothes are (to put it mildly) sub par for normal people, I figured he probably thought I was some sort of destitute.
I am married, and our economy is absolutely fine, we own an almost paid out house, and we have a car that was bought cash without borrowing, and we have a good amount of money in the bank.
Anyways I don’t care, maybe because I don’t have to. I just want clothes that are comfortable.
swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 day ago
I dress for the weather and what I’m going to be doing.
Squirliss@piefed.social 13 hours ago
Myself. Because if I was dressing for others I would be taking a lot more objection to looking like a fashionably challenged (albeit very comfortable) hobo at all times but I dont care about it
ArseAssassin@sopuli.xyz 17 hours ago
I wouldn’t know what anyone else wants me to wear.
youngGoku@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I have more important things to worry about than clothes. Nobody cares what I wear, and frankly neither do I.
tburkhol@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They do care that I wear clothes. Ain’t nobody’s day improved by seeing more of my skin.
SPRUNT@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Clothing is a courtesy I wear for others.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 10 hours ago
Work doesn’t count, that shit is mandated and the new boss likes to fire for it.
Everywhere else? For myself as much as society allows it. If I’m going somewhere where my friends/party could face consequences for my outfit, then I dress to fit in. If I’m going to the grocery store or any other errand? I’m wearing whatever the hell is the most comfortable. I’m not drawing lustful gazes when covered in motorcycle gear anyway.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I dress for the weather.