What do you typically wear? Are you part of any specific fashion subculture? Do you dress differently when it comes to work? Or what fashion aesthetics would you like to get into?
Personally, for me, I'm really into Barbiecore, Y2k, and J-Fashion, especially Decora, Sweet Lolita, and Fairy Kei. I'm quite active in my city's local J-Fashion scene and like to look for pieces made by artists or thrift clothing. I also tend to wear a lot of pastels, and pinks. I always enjoyed wearing formal attire for office spaces. I still like to incorporate color into my work attire, even though more toned down. The types of pieces I wear usually include blazers, dressy shirts, ruffle pants, knee-length skirts, and high heels.
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Mine dress like an unweathered T-600...old obsolete models have no use for style.
I dress pretty "normie" but I've admired alt fashion forever and would prefer to dress a little differently than I do. I get most of my clothes through thrifting so I think I just need to be a bit more comfortable DIY-ing them to my liking. Got my hands on a bottle of black RIT dye and I think I'm just going to go ham any day now. I like long skirts and gravitate toward either bright, clown colors or all-black, but the most important thing to me is comfiness - 100% understand the comfy flannel compulsion (and can't do anything without my stompy boots).
That being said there's also a side of me that's definitely drawn to the more colorful, cutesy fashions - I don't know if I'd want to wear sweet lolita, but my god, is it cute to look at.
Is casual 'lolita'/casual cottage-core a thing? I love ruffles and bows, but I wear everything with combat boots.
lil bit of adam sandler... a pinch of "2000's older brother core..." sprinkle in some hand me downs from rural family roots (lots of carhartt, camo accents, and the occasional splash of high visibility color)
My son is almost 6 months old and I'm still in the leggings, tee-shirt, and messy bun phase. 😂
My style heavily depends on my mood. Most of the time I'm in huge bum mode and in leggings and stealing my SOs shirts. OR if I feel like getting dressy, I'd say casual goth. I like the chunky boots and cute dresses...mostly black, but still cute. Or really comfy sweater with leggings.
I wear a lot of black sometimes and other times I'm super colorful, it just depends on my mood. I'd definitely be considered "alternative" either way. Goth/hippie/raver combo sort of thing, at least when I'm dressing up to go out. Around the house I mostly wear pajama pants/shorts and baggy t-shirts. I like to be comfy.
jeans and a tshirt and a pair of nike air simple
I wish I could go back in time..
currently it is wearing my clothes inside out.....groan not on purpose, it was quite embarrassing actually
I wish I could go back in time..
Honestly, my style depends on how I feel that day and whether I'm working or not, lol. I admire a lot of different styles; I pick and choose aspects from different aesthetics & adapt them into my wardrobe.
Most of my work clothes are thrifted - but when I thrift, I try to choose high-quality pieces that I know I'll get a lot of use out of. My work outfits usually consist of either a nice shirt and pants or a dress. If I wear a dress with spaghetti straps, I'll throw on a shirt under it. I also like wearing long sweaters with leggings; that is my go-to comfy work outfit. Most days I wear my Doc Martens but sometimes I'll mix it up and wear flats, slip-ons that feel like sneakers but don't look like them, or plain white sneakers. With very few exceptions, I refuse to wear pants that you have to zip and/or button up; almost all of my work pants these days have an elastic waistband.
When I'm not working, I tend to dress for comfort and I lean more towards athleisure-ish outfits. I wear a lot of t-shirts, hoodies, leggings, sweatpants, shorts, and athletic skirts outside of work. I like to dress for comfort - and since my weekends are spent decompressing from the previous week/preparing for the following week, I try to choose my comfy clothes carefully & choose high-quality sweatpants/leggings/etc that I know I'll enjoy & feel good wearing.
Back in my college days, I described my style as "boho punk rock". I dressed in flowy, baggy clothes with punk rock style accessories (one of my favourites was a zip that was also a bracelet). One of my boho trademarks was that I wore a lace scarf as a belt; I did it for practical purposes as a scarf is easier to tighten than a belt (especially on my oversized trousers I would insist on buying!) but I guess it gave me a unique flair too.
Coincidentally, I went to work with a scarf-belt today! I've been super busy the past few weeks and have hardly been home at all, to the point where my dirty laundry has really piled up! My only clean work trousers I could dig up this morning are a bit too big for me, so I grabbed a scarf and threaded it through the belt loops, and tied it up at the side. It made me feel nostalgic for my student days and I feel like I've reawakened something in me that I want to keep doing again!
I still love oversized clothes - partly because I like to layer my clothes especially at this time of year, so it helps to have a few sweaters that are purposely too large for me. Many of my work outfits are nature themed, with images of animals and/or plants on them. That said, as I work in a school, I don't tend to wear punk rock jewellery with them. I do, however, have loads of music-themed jewellery (necklaces and earrings mostly, but also a ring in the shape of a treble clef).
Many people who know me irl are aware that nature and music are both very important to me. But I think as I went from student to teacher I changed my aesthetic from "boho punk rock" to "tree-hugging musician" or something! XD
When I'm not at work, I love to wear graphic t-shirts, sweaters and hoodies. I love cartoons, computer games and metal bands and have an ever-growing collection of clothes themed around these things. Combined with a pair of (usually baggy) jeans, a pair of trainers or boots, and some chunkier jewellery (as opposed to the daintier stuff I tend to wear to work) and that's my weekend look!
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Mine depends on the season. In winter I'm often more punk/goth and in summer I'm a bit more... I wouldn't say cottagecore or fairycore but something like that. More floral dresses and nature vibes. But also I am a lazy ass and sometimes I just wear whatever is comfortable.
my style is very much trad goth/ metal head alternative. I love velvet, lace, fishnets, metals- that vibe. I've got a deathhawk rn, my ears are stretched at 1", ive got several facial piercings/ many tattoos and you'll never catch me without my black lippies lmao
I lost 50 lbs back in 2021-22 that I've managed to keep off, but that means I went from being a size 14 in jeans to a size 2-4 usually and a size small, XS up top. That meant that the clothes I didn't like wearing because I just didn't like the way I looked in them, such as sweater dresses, were suddenly opened up to me.
I'm not sure I have a particular fashion sense though, I kind of went crazy once I lost weight and it's kind of tapered off. I thrift a lot of my clothing so it's kind of whatever I feel like wearing at a particular moment. Right now because it's winter, it's a lot of sweaters and skinny jeans, stuff like that. I do like geeky things though so I own geeky Disney related clothing and stuff like a Sailor Moon Sweater, etc.. Also just random graphic, comic-book related t-shirts that were bought at comic-con, etc..
I do tend to gravitate toward more darker colors, blacks, greys, navies, dark blues, etc.. but that's not completely since I do have some colored clothing in my wardrobe, just not a lot. So, I guess if I were to have a style, maybe punk and geek… though that’s not absolute. I do like band t-shirts, doc martens, stuff that’s more punk-ish and own a few doc marten boots.
I don't really dress for style so much as a combination of comfort and looking appropriate for the situation I'm in at the given moment. To quote my SIL I "dress like a librarian". The flashiest thing I wear day to day at work when it's not hot out is a wine-red cardigan and stick with neutral or grey shirts/sweaters most of the time. If not at work its all the graphic tees or hoodie shirts with my jeans (I always wear jeans with everything). Currently I'm wearing grey loafer shoes because they fit and are comfortable (the hey dude ones that are getting popular). I probably get a new item of clothing every few months tbh if that. Idk how people spend so much on clothes regularly. I only tend to buy shoes when my current pair wear out.
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Untense yourself
Get up and stretch your legs
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I dress generally alternatively, though try to add a pastel/colorful twist if I can! It's mostly punk, though I do have a couple of scene and/or goth items here and there, and I enjoy the "punk but formal" look as well. When I was working at my old job, we switched between a couple of shirts before just generally sticking to all black with our nametags. I still have the shirt from the minions collab... shudders At least my original shirt was a big red shirt that goes decently with my more casual punk looks!
Though if it's a low energy day, I throw all of that out the window and go right for comfort, regardless of how it looks. XP
“Who are you, that do not know your history?” - Ulysses, Fallout: New Vegas, Lonesome Road.
I spend about 99% of my time in an oversized top, leggings and running shoes. When it's cooler out, the top is usually a large flannel button up and slip on Doc Martens in the winter. I'm very lucky to work somewhere that doesn't really have a dress code. I really like dainty jewellery. My hair and skin are a mess usually.