In-Groups: Do your outside interests influence your dress? How so? - Topic of the day 9/5/24
Style acts as a visual language, and different pieces or ways of dress can place you amongst a community, or indicate a specific interest.
What does your style say about you? What communities do you draw inspiration from? Does that match your interests or personality? Are you saying what you want to say?
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Pic goes hard, is that Speed?
ahegao hoodie etc etc
I work in the construction sphere so work wear serves a fashion and a workplace purpose. I also like hiking and outdoors so there's a bit of gorp thrown in there time to time as well.
Mostly I'm an unoriginal dork so I dress like an unoriginal dork
I run a fighting games group so I wear absolutely no 'gamer' attire at all because ew, brother, eww
I’ve never been good about incorporating outside interests into my clothes because I always feel a little costumey if I go too far in one direction.
But I love it when u can see somebody and know what they’re about
Pretty relevant picture as i grew up in my local hardcore scene so a lot of my early style was influenced by what i saw the bands i looked up to wearing, primarily docs, vans, leather jackets, worn tees, etc. More to do with how they're styled than the items themselves. Getting into Rick was an evolution from that and the way i wear stuff is still heavily influenced by the music scene. Nowadays i also take a lot of influence from classic biker culture (not harley dads) in regards to denim and outerwear which my uncles wore a lot of when i was young.
I'd say the area of my personality that my style isn't at all aligned with is my queer identity. It's tricky being an amab nb person when i almost always gravitate towards traditional masc looks.
Conversely, very cool to see someone like dressed v soft at a hardcore show, or some guy in a Tsunami tee knows about jazz etc
queer gymrat tabletop & video gamer recovered midwestern hardcore emo kpop enjoyer ahegao hoodie
I think some of that comes thru more than others, but I actively pull from all of em
i have a lot of thoughts on this but the short answer is the varied way i dress reflects the fact i have a lot of seemingly disparate interests and inspirations
bad sam! no!
2 ahegao hoodie mentions
Hard day
@ian I feel that last part re: masc amab nb shit but recent experiences have me feeling both queer and masc so ig I wanna say that shit is valid & I hope you get to feel it soon too
You can tell from the cat hair on my sweater than i'm heavily influenced by my hobby of kissing my sweet little baby
I'm in tech/finance and actively try to dress like I'm not
I've been trying to add a little bit of spice to every masc outfit lately whether it's a tiny bit of makeup or a few extra rings
just a little touch of 'oh this person might not be a boring dude'