To think that people who dress quirky are more often than not uninteresting

I don’t think there’s a correlation one way or the other. This feels a bit goady to me.

Ive often found people who judge others by what they wear uninteresting.

I sooooo agree @Coldcoffeekindamorning

i am an interior architect and there is this belief that you have to dress quirky/very design/very creative. And more often than not they have not much originality in the way they approach layouts/layering out/bespoke pieces and colour scheme.

but of course there are a few exceptions. I know personally a couple of very high end interior architects who are extremely talented and their precision, creativity and eye for details is second to none.

but overall? I compeltely agree

I have pink hair am 47 and don’t think it makes me more interesting. I’ve been dying it since I was 16 and don’t really know what my natural colour is anymore.

I have been told I am a quirky dresser before bit I don’t think I am a particularly interesting person! I just like playing with clothes and have done since I was pretty young.
Quirky has a different meaning to different people as evidenced on this thread. As an example I wouldn’t wear a Popsy but to some they count as quirky.

I'm a middle-aged woman who tries to appear interesting via the medium of grammar pedantry. "Quirky people dress quirkily." I feel better now, not to mention pretty enigmatic.

I’m not sure its that exactly. I have no problem with people dressing as they see fit and think genuinely quirky and different dress can be really interesting. But I have noticed a correlation between people who dress in a self consciously “alternative” uniform and people who are socially anxious and insecure and often a bit dull.

Ironic how all the people on this thread saying “People who dress differently from them are just boring/insecure/unhappy” come across as being desperately threatened by anyone who doesn’t look like them.

It’s also very obvious that a lot of people’s idea of ‘quirky’ isn’t actually anything particularly unusual at all.

Possibly an over-generalisation but I think there’s a grain of truth in this.

I do find that people who adhere slavishly to youth “tribe” codes (goths/emos/metallheads etc) are often very dull and have nothing to talk about other than where they buy their clothes.

Often the dress code is an attempt to compensate for the lack of anything more interesting in their heads. Shoot me but I do think there’s something in this.

Anyone that judges others by their clothes is pretty dull in my book. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Noticed that stereotype as well

I used to work in a busy pub, we had a whole mix of clients but predominantly punks/goths. They would be dressed up in all their clobber, high platforms with the crazy makeup and piecing's, they were the most insecure group of people I ever met. Literally shaking as they ordered & not comfortable in their own skin. I always thought it was rather sad

I think I’ll make it :D

Far better to be assumed to be uninteresting than to be proven to be judgmental and close-minded. I believe the saying is “Never take criticism from someone you wouldn’t ask for advice” :)

100%. This is a recent change.

Back in the 1990s someone dressing different was a sign that someone thought differently and had different views and attitudes. Charity shop chic for example, or people who looked gay / lesbian (and tended to have a slightly more interesting outsider perspective due to homophobia).

Now when I see someone dressed different they have blue or punk hair, are badly dressed, very often unattractive, and you know they are joyless idiots pushing the misogynistic and homophobic idea that a straight an can put on a dress and become a lesbian, and that female lesbians are bigoted for not dating him.

It depends on what you call quirky. I have all my life tended to the more unusual while not dressing as an absolute clown. I have been like this since my teens and am now 70. I make my own clothes so they are not like anything you can find in the shops. I like vintage style 50s style dresses with a gathered skirt as I feel they suit my body shape but I like flat comfortable shoes, like DMs or Hotter. My knitwear is colourful as I enjoy Fair Isle type stranded knitting and use a lot of Scandinavian patterns in non-traditional colours. I have lots of interests and do a variety of activities so I don't think I'm boring but I don't really care what other people think.

Edit: I've never been to Stroud or Totnes.

The only people I know who dress quirky live in Stroud and Totnes..it’s the culture to dress that way, they think it’s alternative.

dress sense/ quirkiness and being interesting are two entirely separate constructs. A interesting person won’t necessarily express that through dress.

i often find quirky dressers to be marginally chaotic and having no real aesthetic eye

@Coldcoffeekindamorning

1. How would you know their motivations? Are you a mind reader or just projecting?
2. It's "quirkily", not quirky".

Our warehouse manager attracted the nickname Sergeant Pepper for her outlandish and colourful outfits. It has since been shortened to Peppa. Its not an artistic job but she has some creative ideas for stock control and management and is a pretty good laugh. HTH

I only know one genuinely distinctive and unique dresser and she’s a really interesting person who lives a really interesting life. A really, really strong, decent character.

She dresses in a genuinely unique way, unlike most ‘quirky’ dressers who are actually following a ‘quirky’ social fad.