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Eccentric dress style

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Do many of you have an eccentric dress style?

People they see me in my corduroy trousers, button-up shirt, camel coat and fedora hat and give me dirty looks, stare and make aggressive body movements. I in turn become nervous sometimes and start pacing or looking all around, then have to leave an area and go somewhere else. I could dress as casually as most people but wouldn't feel right.

I find most conversations and interactions with people too informal for my taste so dressing more formally is my way of signalling to people I don't do modern casual informal conversations well.

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  • Clothes help define the persona you wish to project.

    Although most of the time I dress fairly casually (or at least what I consider to be casual), I sometimes deliberately wear clothes that I know will make me feel more confident or acceptable in a difficult social situation.

    It's funny, despite common sayings like "Don't Judge a Book by it's Cover", unless they know you quite well, people almost always base their first impressions of you as a person on your appearance. I've actually found over the years that even people who do know me quite well, often fail to recognise me if I change my style of dress or appearance, which just shows how little attention to detail people often have of their surroundings. This doesn't happen quite so often nowadays though, as I have a distinctive bushy white beard that makes me look like Santa (hence my username). Bizarrely though, this goes too far the other way & I often get mistaken for other people, who presumably are also mainly recognised from their facial hair.

    Wear whatever defines your personality & makes you feel comfortable. Your style of dress sounds fine to me though Smile.

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  • Clothes help define the persona you wish to project.

    Although most of the time I dress fairly casually (or at least what I consider to be casual), I sometimes deliberately wear clothes that I know will make me feel more confident or acceptable in a difficult social situation.

    It's funny, despite common sayings like "Don't Judge a Book by it's Cover", unless they know you quite well, people almost always base their first impressions of you as a person on your appearance. I've actually found over the years that even people who do know me quite well, often fail to recognise me if I change my style of dress or appearance, which just shows how little attention to detail people often have of their surroundings. This doesn't happen quite so often nowadays though, as I have a distinctive bushy white beard that makes me look like Santa (hence my username). Bizarrely though, this goes too far the other way & I often get mistaken for other people, who presumably are also mainly recognised from their facial hair.

    Wear whatever defines your personality & makes you feel comfortable. Your style of dress sounds fine to me though Smile.

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