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[meanwhileback]

[Smoking at the podium is probably bad form, but here's Penelope, doing exactly that thing.]

How do you dress when you're at home? Is it different from how you dress when you're at work, or when you're out running errands, or when you're out partying or whatever?

Do you feel like what you wear is part of your personality, or do you use it to mask your personality from the uncaring eye of society or whatever?

Or do you feel like clothes are unimportant and don't have any impact on who you are at all? Because you're frankly fucking wrong, if that's what you think, but I mean I'm not your mom who clearly raised you wrong, so who am I to judge, right?

[Penelope feels she is precisely the one to judge. Everything. Clearly.]

Comments

[gulistan]

I grew up in a rural, cold area, so I don't get to dress very well, I think — I usually wear leggings, sometimes with skinny jeans over them, and fuzzy sweaters, dresses with flowers on them, or t-shirts with the neck cut open. And black boots that lace up the front. If you don't wear waterproof boots in Provideniya, your shoes will get soaked. I don't wear make-up. I dress the same pretty much anywhere, but when I work, I have to roll my sleeves up and wear gloves.

The man I see in New York says I don't look very cosmopolitan, but that it isn't a bad thing? He might just be saying that.

[kashaph]

Ehhh... whatever fits.

( they're 6' 4", and about 90% of that is leg; nothing is ever long enough or narrow enough, and they can't afford anything new, so everything secondhand gets chopped up and frankensteined back together. )

[threnodic]

Uh. Some people have told me I have my tits half-out too often.

Those people are wrong.

[peratic]

This is a really good question because I am in sartorial flux right now. I used to wear a lot of little floral dresses and stompy boots and this gigantic fringed brown suede jacket from the 60s, which my mother once called disgusting, but. She has strong feelings about clothes, actually.

Also, my first job is in a hospital, and everyone thinks doctors who wear scrubs outside of the hospital are gross. Quite rightly.