Sorry to join the thread so late.
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Originally Posted by spookypurple
There was a programme on the BBc recently called "A Week Of Dressing Dangerously" or something like that, where they took different individuals and made them dress in a completely different 'outfit' each day for a week and gauged how they behaved and how their friends and total strangers reacted to them. Stuff like, cowboy one day, pimp the next - that kind of thing.
And guess what - d'oh! - the clothes made a huge difference. To actions and reactions.
"This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man."
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Well anyway, there’s some element of truth in what the program shows, esp. in the way different cultures and people with different educational levels value their own and other peoples appearance, guess it’s like ‘Judging a book by it’s cover.’
Now I’m not saying I’m different, just don’t follow the ‘norms’ of Chinese or Asian culture; you know all the looking approachable, professional and keeping face-value shit! For the whole of 2004, I was living in South-East Asia (Hong Kong, south China) and I had many problems been accepted into society. I don’t know about you guys’n’gals, but I get bored real quick. Apparently my constant change in visual appearance caused a slight stir, local law enforcers would pull you aside and give you the third degree and for what? Because you don’t fit in their ‘ideal’ persona, it’s seems that people there have a form of ‘utopia’ that applies to everyone. If you don’t fit, then you can’t be accepted, no two ways about it.
So for me, if I had too, I would have no problems following the guides set out by the many “Andrew Eldritch’s“ of g.net members, they’re absolutely true in one way or another; it’s their perfect, not necessary yours. Thought I would modify them and make it my own. Nowadays I create my own style, I’ve learnt to think that interpersonal labelling is a creation of other people, how they think. What label they like to donate isn’t my problem, it’s theirs.
Life is very short, blink and it’s gone. Express your feelings, wear and do what every feels great to you. Worry less about how others portray you; they should be looking at your inner person not your extension. As far as many western and modern societies are concerned, the cloths we wear or our outer skin is simply a visual interpretation of our inner feelings, don’t you think?
Just goes to show that there are a lot of narrow-minded people out there, even in our cities, maybe your neighbour even.
Does it make sense?