Would you think I'm a freak if I worked in your office?

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I'm wearing black only. Slightly overweight. it helps! getting weird comments all the time. But I can bloody wear what I bloody feel like? Right? AIBU?

No. I'd think anyone who commented wasn't concentrating adequately on their work/needed to get a life/both.

Most of my work clothes are black. It's because I'm too lazy to be bothered first thing in the morning and it's so easy when all my tops, bottoms, jumpers, jackets & undies go together. If I forget that one bit is in the wash/creased/refusing to fasten I can just grab the next nearest out of the drawer.

And I do think I look my best in black.

Are you a bit scruffy too? Otherwise I can't see why you'd stand out at all. Black is such a default for work. I'm just wondering if you are channelling the pallid, depressed goth look. Intentionally or otherwise.

I only ever wore black until a year or so ago. I branched into some grey and black. I'm surprised this could possibly be an issue?!

I think it's a bit childish/weird if grown adults have a "thing" that they won't deviate from, it's very teenagery

e.g. "I always wear something purple" "I'm never seen without my heels" & "I only wear black"

If you just happened to have mostly black, that's fine I probably wouldn't notice, i'm not much into style so I don't clock these things. But if you have a "thing" about always wearing black I'ld think you were a bit of a tit.

depends on your make up and style, like, do you look like Richmond from the IT crowd?

I have do occasionally wear grey or purple accents, but it's black all the way here..

Wouldn't bother me x

Ruby I don't look like Richmond, but I do know (and have worked with) the chap he was based on

My best friend always wears black. I haven't really commented or actually paid that much attention to it. Nobody's ever commented.

However, black jeans/trousers do not look good on me. I'm very underweight and I look incredibly thin to the point that people have commented. I often get the 'Oh, you look so sick', 'You're so very thin' or the usual 'My goodness, you've lost an awful lot of weight' after a period of wearing blue jeans etc.

I wouldn't think you're a freak!

Why does only wearing black make someone a tit tinsel?

I like it. It suits me. I don't enjoy colour on me.

I'm like this with navy blue - I think I'd startle colleagues if I turned up in something colourful

I seldom deviate from dresses. Does that make me a teenagery tit tinsel

"seldom" , no. That just means you mostly wear dresses. If you made a big thing about having a "thing" where you "only" wear dresses and it's your "signature" , and you built it up into such a thing that you won't wear trousers even in situations where dresses are impractical, then I do think you're a bit of a tit

The litmus test is whether you call it "my thing" or not usually
Beyond about age 16 it's a bit silly. Like goths who wear heavy layers on sun holidays with their parents to make a point about their "identity"

There are certain people who find the wearing of black in summer a very odd thing. I got this a lot in my youth.

Like goths who wear heavy layers on sun holidays with their parents to make a point about their "identity"

I've never had to do this. I've got some beautiful, cool floaty black dresses for summer. Lovely black sandals.

I don't call it my "signature" for a moment. But I just don't wear colour.

Why does only wearing black make someone a tit tinsel?

I like it. It suits me. I don't enjoy colour on me.

Depends on whether you're one of those posters who refuses to accept that some people might not want an all black wearing guest at a summer wedding, and insists that you cannot possibly wear any other colour because wearing black is your "thing" and they should know that if they invited you

And you just cannot make an exception

If you just happened to pick up black in the shop more often than not and not make a big thing that you cannot deviate from it, then you may not be a total tit -

Depends on whether you're one of those posters who refuses to accept that some people might not want an all black wearing guest at a summer wedding

I'm one of those posters who thinks that you can't put dictates on what someone wears to a wedding, and if you do and what they're wearing fits that then you can't be arsey.

But then if someone told me I couldn't wear black to their summer wedding I would (a) think they were a bit of a tit and (b) happily decline the invitation so as to sort the issue

Well I hate wearing "dressy" clothes, but I'm not 12 so I don't sulk and refuse to go somewhere if I can't wear my usual slouchy stuff. So I dress up for weddings because it's just one day and my personal "image" isn't more important that making a bit of an effort for a friends event.

Same for black, if it's what you mostly happen to wear, cool whatever
but if you absolutely cannot wear anything but black even for exceptional events, that's just a bit self indulgent and childish

I have some really dressy stuff. Some beautifully smart outfits. So I could hardly be accused of "not making an effort"

I am ridiculously uncomfortable wearing colour. I hate it. So I would hope my friends would accept that. If they don't, I don't make a big deal I just politely decline.

I am sure they'd prefer I was comfortable rather than spend money I haven't got on an outfit I will be miserable in.

But there's no need NOT to wear black. You can look dressy/casual/smart whatever with the relevant style outfit.

Surely you agree a wedding invite with a colour code would be childish

This is what I wore to the last two weddings I have been invited to.

Perfectly dressy for a wedding

I have some really dressy stuff. Some beautifully smart outfits

black paired with black and black with some black just blends into a blob of black

which is fine I sometimes end up wearing all black, but at a summer wedding when everybody else is going to be in summery colours it'll stand out and look like a statement (which it is if you're saying "I WONT' COME IF I CAN'T WEAR MY SIGNATURE COLOUR)

Plenty of people who don't set a dress code won't "like" it.
I'm not talking necessarily about people who state dress coded.
But if they do want a theme so what it's one day! That's not what I was referring to.