To not really get why people don’t like clothes?

People in an old fleece and tracky bottoms are expressing themselves though, they're saying they prefer comfort over fashion 🤷 nowt wrong with that at all!

I was a jeans and t-shirt type when I was young, absolutely hated fashion. Now I take much more interest in trends and like colours and fabrics and playing with combinations. My younger self would roll her eyes at women dressed like me 🙄 but now I really don't give a fuck I am far more adventurous.

I have clothes I enjoy wearing now because, in my 40s, I've finally found brands and garments that I like, have the confidence to wear, can afford and nice fabrics. Also have Vinted!

For most of my childhood I had no interest in clothes, and was happy in whatever my Mum chose.

As a teenager I tried to choose cool clothes occasionally, but I was geeky and never got it right. Always felt foolish and underconfident. Much safer just wearing jeans and a basic top.

I was also very thin and finding stuff that even fitted was stressful. I hated the process of shopping. Trailing around from shop to shop and finding nothing. Urghh.

In my 20/30s I was too busy with hobbies and travelling to care about clothes. I looked presentable and appropriate though.

I have no interest in "expressing myself" in terms of looks. Looks are easily "faked" so aren't a reliable indicator of the person/personality. I prefer to base myself and other people on their actions, not superficial looks.

Why do you care what people on the street think about you?

I like to look nice, but prefer to look nice myself rather than wear nice looking garments, if that makes sense? So I know what styles and colours make me look good, set off my shape, hair, skin tone, and just choose plain things that do that. So, for example I might wear a black dress of a certain length, fitted in a certain way for years and just update it with shoes bag or whatever. I'm not really bothered about what comes in and out of style, or what might catch my eye, because I already know what I wear.

I’d prefer not to expend any mental energy on what people I don’t know who walk past me think of me, as long as I’m not upsetting them with terrible BO or something. I guess if I was single and on the pull or famous and likely to be papped then I might

I’d rather wear something comfortable and ‘express who I am’ by talking about something interesting. I do appreciate the style of stylish friends, and think of it as part of who they are, but not the most interesting part or at all essential!

Exactly how I feel. I’d love to look good in nice clothes but no point trying to polish a turd.

I care in as much that I won’t be walking around in pyjamas or clothes that are dirty, or in a poor state of repair. But I have sort of given up, because I just am absolutely no good at dressing myself to suit my body and looks “put together”. I just always get it wrong and end up pissed off at wasting money on clothes that are actually horrible on me or down that I just want to look nice but failed again. So it’s easier to just stick to a very basic, plane “uniform”. I’m rarely told I look nice, but I am clean and presentable. That’s about as good I can can achieve

I really envy people who know how to express themselves well in their styles.

Just about everything on the shops currently is the wrong shape and in a colour I hate.

Dresses have no shape any more, it's like they've suddenly forgotten that women have waists and hips.

It's tiresome wading through a load of stuff that's slightly too short, long, wide or would be nicer in a different colour.

I'm seriously considering learning how to alter and make my own clothes because I'm tired at looking at badly sewn scraps of polyester thinking 'they want how much for it'?

I’m hourglass too. It sounds a bit “my diamond shoes are too tight” - my waist is just sooo small and I have a great arse and 28G boobs but the struggle is real. I’m very small too so sleeves and trousers are always too long and dresses are an unflattering length. It must be brilliant being about 5’7 and flat chested.

Always a bit baffled by the idea of "expressing who you are" through mass-produced objects, designed and manufactured by someone else. Better to express who you are with your own words and actions, I reckon. And wanting to express anything in particular to every stranger who glances you seems a bit self-involved.

How old are you OP?

When I was younger I definitely expressed myself through clothing, makeup, etc. As I've got older I have pared back quite a bit - my hair and clothing are much more natural, my clothes simpler (although nicer quality and I've figured out what actually suits me). I still want to look nice but I care much less about 'expressing myself' through my appearance and as a result don't buy as much.

I like clothes that are comfortable, familiar, don’t get in my way and don’t draw attention. I love those clothes. But they’re next to impossible to repeat by the time I realise how much I love them, and definitely impossible to replace.

Ideally I’d like clothes like they had centuries ago that were designed to last for years, had pleats that could be extended as bodies change, and didn’t need a lot of laundering. Those are clothes I could really like. But fast fashion? Meh.

Also what if who you really are is a Primark leggings and a jumper kind of person?

I find the concept of "expressing who I am by clothes" rather weird.

I don't like judging people by looks, and I consider the "expression by clothes" as inviting people to do exactly that.

They can express who you are

Ah, this is part of the problem, IMO.

They can express how you want other people to perceive you, and the resources you have access to, but not the essence of who you really are.

Not everyone cares about expressing who they are to others. We're all different and that includes people who wear clothes to reflect something about themselves to other people and people who wear clothes because it is socially unacceptable not to do so (not to mention cold!).

I expect most of us like clothes in the sense that they keep us warm / cover our privates 😁

Because they're expensive. If you buy cheaper clothes then you just sit in guilt about the value chains and the polyester fibres that will lie in the earth for a millennia after you're gone. Because unless you spend a lot of money it all looks shit anyway. And then if you pay a lot of money on clothes your child will smear them with peanut butter and ruin them immediately.