Clothing woes?

[lovefromgirl.livejournal.com]

This is so fluffy it's ridiculous.

Basically, some of us feel like observing "plain" dress, a la the Quakers. Some of us are keener on hijab. Some don't feel they need to change their clothing style at all.

It's bad enough when we simply can't decide what to wear. We'll be terribly preppy one day and completely gothed out the next. We've accepted that we all practice some different religions, but... *scratches head*

Have any of you dealt with this sort of confusion before?

Kali

Comments

[idianshire.livejournal.com]

ok Fluffy irreverent answer

How we do it is be so poor that we can't afford clothes and have to just put up with the old stuff in the wardrobe, which really isn't anyone's style

[lovefromgirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear! *ponders a solution* Can you afford a handy-stitch, to make some clothes over? Is there a Salvation Army nearby?

Cat, full of ideas (or something ;-)

[pthalo]

that's our solution too!

And since we're in college: I'll wear anything that's clean!

[ridetothesea.livejournal.com]

Same for us. :) Although "clean" changes depending on who you ask.

[pthalo]

heh, exactly

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

LOL, ohhh yeah. Kír doesn't like anything too girly, though he's not insistent about it - if the body's wearing a skirt ir something, he simply won't take form, and he says it's not a problem. I don't really accept that, though; I think he needs to be corporeal a lot more than he's willing to admit, and uses the clothing thing too much as an excuse for avoiding it.

Crist-Erui has extreme comfort-issues with clothing and won't wear anything too stiff, scratchy or constrictive - he loves soft floaty fabrics, but he's really hard on clothes. I buy him silk shirts from the Thrift Store where they're only about $7.00 apiece, and try to mend the rips while they're small, so they'll last a bit longer - he reduces them to rags pretty quickly, though. He's gotten much better about putting on appropriate clothing before heading out to the forest and coming back with everything he wore out there, but sometimes he forgets.

Life's gotten simpler since I decided on our basic all-the-time color-scheme and only buy things that fit it: blue, dark green, grey, black, a little bit of dark red.

[lovefromgirl.livejournal.com]

We had a Riki who wanted us to not only dress like a guy, but transition into one. O.o I'm pretty sure he left when he figured out we weren't able to fit his needs. I'm very glad you can accommodate Kir; I wish we could have done the same...

Mmm, thrift stores. We saw a ridiculously inexpensive leather jacket -- and a real fur! *puts "Go to Goodwill" on to-do list*

I like your color scheme idea. :-)

Cat

Certainly.

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

http://www.livejournal.com/community/multiplicity/179063.html?thread=1821559

Re: Certainly.

[lovefromgirl.livejournal.com]

Many thanks for that -- we should have checked the archives first, but we can hardly even remember to get dressed in the morning. *sheepish grin*

Re: Certainly.

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

It was in a conversation about something else. So you might not have caught it anyway!

But a good practice is to read the archives through some afternoon when you have nothing to do (hah!) and bookmark or put in your Memories those that are of interest or relevance to you.

Re: Certainly.

[lovefromgirl.livejournal.com]

*grin* We might find the time next week -- this week's chaos, though... *headdesk*

[sethrenn.livejournal.com]

I think some kind of clothing dispute is pretty much universal around here. There are a lot of people around here who prefer denim pants, to the point where they'll refuse to wear anything else for extended periods of time; we do a lot of basic jeans-and-T-shirts outfits.

Anthea likes to be a little dressy, and will wear blouses and jewelry from time to time, which is kind of a paradox, because she'll also go around in dirty torn-up clothes 'back home,' or even up front if we're camping or something. Ruka, if given a choice, likes anachronous clothing that is dressy to the point of absurdity, most of which went out of fashion at least a hundred years ago; although he also will tolerate scrappy clothing if necessary.

I tend to be pretty informal, although (as a male) I personally don't mind skirts-- I believe in deliberately bending gender roles, and anyway, if women in pants are acceptable, why shouldn't men in skirts be?

Of course, it probably helps that like idianshire, we don't have a whole lot of money to spend on clothes to begin with (or choose not to prioritise it highly, as far as spending what we do have), which automatically eliminates the possibility of most of what Ruka would like to wear, heh.

[lovefromgirl.livejournal.com]

Gytha loves being a dandy. ^_^ We can never find small enough menswear (the body is five feet tall, hovering around eighty-seven pounds) but we do have a lovely Victorian do or two. One's a ladies' gown, more for summer, and the other is a children's style dress. Then there's the big honkin' crinoline (impulse buy, $4 at Goodwill) which goes with the black lace skirt.

I think at this point we may be more comfortable in all of our historic!wear, haaaa...

Cat

[idianshire.livejournal.com]

It also helps for us to not have a skinny body, therefore a lot of peopel can't find as well as can't afford the things they would like to wear.

All I can say is .. thank god... considering some of the stuff they look at when window shopping online

[jadedmosaic.livejournal.com]

We like Irish guys in Kilts and there like skirts ,
Elaine & Serinna

[gryphons.livejournal.com]

for us .. not really.. it's more what type of shirts.. cause some of us have big issues with how restrictive clothing is.. not so much style.. though we've got a decent selection in our closet that gets fussed over a lot.. we've mostly settled on jean shorts, and a variety of guy's shirts.. cause they're looser..

[lovefromgirl.livejournal.com]

Ooh, shorts around here aren't for later than September! ^_^ Guys' shirts do feel more comfortable. I've taken to stealing Papa's sweaters.

Cat

[gryphons.livejournal.com]

shorts probably shouldn't be for around here either.. but we're usually walking around in snow in shorts and sandals.. cold doesn't bother us..

[jadedmosaic.livejournal.com]

us teens wear Marty and well we use to wear josephs Shirts there so much nicer and comfortable ,

Elaine & Serinna

[wantsacracker.livejournal.com]

We really regret the hours and hours and hours of our life spent arguing about what to wear. At one point we almost agreed to a UNIFORM in order to try to get over it. We seem to have evolved a quasi-uniform now, and we are ruthless about not letting it get confused. Fancy dress is an chance for people to wear what they personally like, so we do enjoy that. :)

[lovefromgirl.livejournal.com]

*nods* I always used to wish my school would go for uniforms -- never could decide what to wear in the morning.

Mmm. Fancy dress. Awesomeness.

Cat

[laurenthemself]

This is one of the few things that I, as a soulbonder whose bonds don't ever actually front, can join in on with personal knowledge. Everyone inside has their own favourite outfits, and it's reflected in the clothing of whoever's contributing the most that day. Lately it's been Liam, so I've been wearing a lot of green (and drinking a lot of orange juice. He loves the stuff; I'm not so fond of it). Everyone here has their preferred colours and styles. A lot of the time we're stuck with work clothes, though, which means a lot of black and pinstripes and no real distinguishing features.

[lovefromgirl.livejournal.com]

mmm. black, pinstripey things. Less with the confusion, at least!

At least the orange juice is an immune booster. ♥

[laurenthemself]

Black pinstripey things are excellent for lessening the confusion in the wardrobe. I have enough pairs of pinstriped and plain black trousers to last me the entire working week, and then they get paired with black or otherwise plain-coloured tops.

The orange juice is an excellent immune booster; the litre of it I drank earlier today is probably the main reason I'm not still coughing my lungs out, as I was at work (and I work in a call centre. Poor customers!).

[lovefromgirl.livejournal.com]

Customers, nowt. Poor you! Call centers are hell! Aiyah. *clucks tongue*

[terp-lj.livejournal.com]

most of us would prefer no clothing at all, but unfortunately we live in a society that frowns on that. :P

[eosphorus.livejournal.com]

i like soft, flowing fabrics, the likes of which we have only found in rayon thus far (within price range, anyway). there are two in the closet, but we rarely wear them since my girl does not particularly enjoy dressing up like a girl. i do not mind, though, and no one else is particularly picky about it.
there have, however, been recent arguments over trousers. someone here does not seem to mind the impracticality of wearing leather pants for everyday business. the sweating alone – feh!

life is somewhat easier when the numbers are lower than average, at least. heh.

[eosphorus.livejournal.com]

two skirts, that is. senility makes me forget words. :p

[luwana.livejournal.com]

Thankfully we don't have that much of a problem. We both wear the 'vaguely stylish comfy clothes' I seem to have a lot of, and we're too poor to afford goth or anything else XD

[delancy.livejournal.com]

I would like to wear more white clothing, but on this body it looks, well, terrible. My mind-brother likes to wear all black, as much of the time as possible. Either that, or extremely silly t-shirts. , We compromise and tend to avoid anything too 'Gothic' or juvenile when I am cofronting.

[nynomi.livejournal.com]

We have to change clothes sometimes. Luna gets out the clothes for us to wear the night before, and sometimes either I (Nerys) or Jill or Julian or even Nynomi will look at it and go "What was she thinking?" and get out a different outfit. Yesterday for example we were all Luna-ed out in a multicolor velvet skirt, a black velour top, purple leggings, purple socks, and black shoes - then Julian and Jill came front (they are both adolescents, both very left-brained and fairly asexual) because we had to figure out a tricky geometry/physics problem (how to drain a huge bucket into the sink with only the upper body strength of an average adult female) and they were actually quite grateful we spilled a lot of the water + sanitizer that was in the bucket all over the Luna-outfit, so they could change. We went upstairs and put on blue jeans and a fairly simple black shirt and sneakers. They would have been happier in a T-shirt, this was a black scoopneck and thus a bit of a compromise.

But no one has really tried to suggest something that would seriously screw with everyone's reality except myrrh. She wants to wear all white a lot. Luna refuses to wear any white, Nynomi refuses to have white next to her face. I'm OK with it, but we'd have a fight on our hands, probably the equivalent of my fight with Luna over religion when I wanted to become baptized and go to church. (We compromised. I told her she could still be Pagan as long as she let me be Christian. And Zoe could still be atheist. Not like anyone could talk her out of it!)