"Not get bitchy just cuz you think you look good" will be a general answer to this dilemma. Though I'm not a girl, I'm as close to one as a straight guy can get and I'm rarely bitchy... A sardonic jerk, possibly, but that's pretty much a 24/7 thing, and quite antithetical to being a bitch (as most bitchy folks are stupid and have no sense of humor).
And I don't think fashion is a facade so much as it is a show. It's an external expression of your self-image. It's not a reflection of who you are (per se), but who you think you are. It's why rockers have lonbg hair, and black boots. It's why "with-it" kids always wear trandy nonesense. It's why elegant folks spend lots of money of "timeless" pieces... Far from being a facade it's an attempt at self-defintion. In general trends are typically nonesense, and much like you fluffy, I have no idea from where they come, or even why people where them. Some fashion aspects, I can see it as a visceral sort of identification, like the complemantary colors on a color wheel. But the Von Dutch hat caraze of 2003, is absurd... Why trucker hats were cheap and ugly forms of hair management for 3 decades, and the suddenly bcame the things every 20-something poser HAD to own makes no sense... just cuz you write some whack design label on the hat and tilt it to the side does not change how God-awful those hats look(ed).
My advice in general if you're affraid to "fall in the whole" is not to shop at the mall, and don't look at labels.
And I don't think fashion is a facade so much as it is a show. It's an external expression of your self-image. It's not a reflection of who you are (per se), but who you think you are. It's why rockers have lonbg hair, and black boots. It's why "with-it" kids always wear trandy nonesense. It's why elegant folks spend lots of money of "timeless" pieces... Far from being a facade it's an attempt at self-defintion. In general trends are typically nonesense, and much like you fluffy, I have no idea from where they come, or even why people where them. Some fashion aspects, I can see it as a visceral sort of identification, like the complemantary colors on a color wheel. But the Von Dutch hat caraze of 2003, is absurd... Why trucker hats were cheap and ugly forms of hair management for 3 decades, and the suddenly bcame the things every 20-something poser HAD to own makes no sense... just cuz you write some whack design label on the hat and tilt it to the side does not change how God-awful those hats look(ed).
My advice in general if you're affraid to "fall in the whole" is not to shop at the mall, and don't look at labels.
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