At least I'm not mixing them to make The Other Kind of Goth Suffragist.

[mrissa]

Apparently last weekend a small person of my acquaintance announced that he wanted to look like a college professor. I only heard this after the fact, but he succeeded admirably. And I sometimes think that the combination of him being in the single digits of age and autistic means that he will admit to stuff like that when other people mostly don

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[alecaustin]

I must confess that every time I put on a dress shirt and a tie, I am stricken with the feeling that I am pretending to be a Very Serious Grown-Up (or possibly Businessman).

When I wore my usual college outfit of pin-decorated beret, stompy boots, and black microfiber raincoat, I liked to see the pin as a cap badge. If any of the Gaunt's Ghosts novels had been out and I'd read them, I would have imagined myself as a Very Gothy Imperial Guardsman.

[ashnistrike]

I have the Girl Detective Raincoat, and the Airship Pilot outfit, and I definitely don't tell my federal colleagues that I always wear suits to work because it's What You Wear to Fight Lovecraftian Horrors. And a variety of other outfits that I keep around because sometimes you just want to be armored, or decked out, in a particular story--even if no one outside the house knows what it means.

[mrissa]

It's totally What You Wear to Fight Lovecraftian Horrors.

And I want a Girl Detective Raincoat. And also a Composed Adventuress Raincoat. And like that. I am a huge sucker for coats.

[ashnistrike]

Yeah, that is how I end up with a coat closet and an everything else closet. Not that I need more, but a Composed Adventuress Raincoat sounds like a great idea!

[fidelioscabinet]

Yes, but not, alas, as often as I'd like to. Right now I am hemming the new Aubergine Garment of Imperial Administration; if only I had a proper mantle with tablia to go with it!

[ellen_fremedon]

I try to dress to meet a standard of companion-readiness: if the TARDIS shows up and takes me away, I want to be in an outfit that is attractive, mildly quirky, and would let me outrun a Cyberman.

[genarti]

This may be the best sartorial policy I have ever heard.

[wshaffer]

I do, although the tendency atrophied a bit during my years working in chemistry labs when I was generally dressed as Person Who Despite Her Best Efforts Keeps Acid-Burning or Bleaching Her Clothes.

When I was in junior high, I had an outfit that was As Goth As I Can Get And Still Comply with the Dresscode. Whenever I wore it, my father called me The Little Amish Girl.

In college, my default outfit was Because A Person Might Need to Climb a Fence at a Moment's Notice. I didn't know this until my sister confided in me that her therapist (who had met me while I was decked out in an army jacket, jeans with holes at the knees, and a pair of bright green Doc Martens) had opined that I maybe "needed to get more in touch with my feminine side." I replied with, "I'm not unfeminine, I just might need to climb a fence or something!" I can think of precisely zero occasions on which I've needed to climb a fence, and only a handful on which I've chosen to climb a fence rather than go through the gate like a sensible person.

[timprov]

Jeans with holes in the knees are inadvisable for that anyway.

[wshaffer]

Judging by my recent experiences climbing walls, I can bruise and scrape the hell out of my knees even in fully intact trousers. It's just as well that I wasn't climbing fences back in my holey jeans days.

[timprov]

But wholly intact trousers aren't likely to get caught on the top of the fence.