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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

[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.

[meanwhileback]

There is nothing wrong with any of the things you just mentioned, generally. I trust your judgement.

Nobody should wear scrubs except hospital professionals in a hospital environment. Back in the 2000s there was some kind of trend to wear them as like, real human being clothes, and it made me physically angry.

[peratic]

That is both fashionably unwise and really unintelligent for a health professional! I somehow missed that trend, though, was it an American thing, or what?

[meanwhileback]

Yeah. I think it was just one of those "meh, i want to wear low-effort comfy clothes and call it fashionable" trends that pops up every so often. Those Juicy Couture tracksuits was more of the same. Seeing those still makes me want to use my fingernails to dig eyeballs out of sockets, it's that bad.

[peratic]

I liked those trends better when it was grunge.

Trackies are still very much a thing in some parts of the world, I'm sorry to say. Complete with the derriere slogans. You know, for the ladies.

[meanwhileback]

At least grunge made sense. Nobody makes a tracksuit look cool. Same with scrubs, sorry hot doctors everywhere.

Some parts of the world are decades behind, fashion-wise. Large parts of Canada were trapped in a time pocket from 1988 until about 2007. Now they're up to about the mid-90s, which thankfully for them, is back in again.

[peratic]

We accept your apology. [ junior doctors count!! ]

A lot of Eastern Europe — at least, where I have lived — is not dissimilar, except it's more 2003ish.