Usually I try to dress decently for work, especially I’m expecting people to give me large sums of money and I want to look like I deserve it. It’s all about perception, unfortunately. I could be a total slob on the inside, but if I wear a nice pair of shoes, people think I’m Donald Trump. Anyway, yesterday I dressed up extra special because of the luncheon with the mayor and the Rotary Club. I wore some custom-made dress pants, new black leather shoes, Christian Dior electric blue dress shirt, silver silk Italian tie, black single-breasted wool knit suit jacket, a microfibre trenchcoat by Perry Ellis, and my Terminator sunglasses. 😛 I had to admit that I felt like a badass walking around the city like that. Hamilton is… shall we say… “casual.” People treated me differently because I was dressed differently from them. I got a lot of positive comments from people I know, and strangers were looking too. Because of my hectic schedule yesterday, I didn’t even get to change before I went to the theatre, so I had to wear part of that outfit for the show last night.
It’s interesting how something you wear can make you feel like a different person. For me, it’s because I realize how people are perceiving me differently only because of what I’m wearing. It’s a costume–a disguise–I guess. Anyway, something to think about… :slow:
so many peopl ein my life make such a to do about it when I get nicely dressed. I’m not even talking like dressed up..I’m just talkign no pajamas, no aprons, no head to toe purple… by some people’s definitions I look ‘normal’ .. but for me it is not normal, and people just get all a flutter about it. Which is why some days I purposefully dress like a GAP ad… I like to mess with people’s perception of me 🙂
.maggie
😮 hehe. it’s fun to mess with people’s perceptions. there was a thing on CBC radio the other day about a journalist who usually dresses like the GAP ad, and she had a makeover by her friend who dresses like a punk rock rainbow. she said it was so cool to be stared at and complimented. she had never before gotten so many positive comments from strangers and friends. she had been expecting to be a social outcast, but instead people were smiling and admiring her outfit. anyway, just goes to show that “normal” is overrated. 😛
HIGHLY overrated :nod: aprons are very practical! people would realize this if they stoped thinking they were weird fro everyday wear..
this happens to me all the time. What makes me think though, is whether people treat you differently because you look different or because you behave different. I mean, youprobably even walk differently when you have a shirt with monkeys on or when your’e all dressed up. Do they really react to your clothes or you attitude, the vibe you’re giving them? hm? hm?
it’s true. the monkey shirt makes me walk with my knuckles dragging on the ground.