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

[keeponwishing]

I’m not talking about specifically liking fashion or following certain trends.

I mean in general, clothes are a personal choice. They can express who you are, there’s do much choice out there. Why people say they don’t care what they wear?

Because it’s rather shallow

It's not shallow. It's just a different interest. If you're really into clothes it's actually a very nuanced, deep and life-affirming hobby.

It's ok to not be though.

Because they’re expensive, they never fit properly and you can only “express yourself” within the bounds of what the retailers you can afford sell.

Well that's demonstrably untrue!

You can get clothes from so many places other than the major retailers, and you can do it in a way that suits most budgets.

'If you're interested'.

I speak as someone who loves clothes and shoes and bags etc. We're all different!

How are clothes life-affirming?

That's great, but that's your take.

I don't understand what you don't understand? Some people want something that fits and is comfortable and appropriate, and that's enough for them.
Why can't you understand that?

I have cupboards packed with shoes and handbags, even more than I have clothes. I like them. I can still understand why people don't care one bit about their bag or even never want one/

Outside is necessary to be sometimes so my clothing reflects that, it is perfunctory and nothing more.

I am only really myself at home and my choices there reflect that. I can waft around in floaty satin pyjamas, poodle skirts and neckscarves, dress like a royal, or a 50s housewife and I love that. Outside gets my scruffs and I don’t give a shit who judges me for it. I’m not who you see on the school run, you don’t know me and I don’t want you to.

I like clothes but unfortunately most clothes really don’t like me. I’m short with a large bust, no waist and I use a wheelchair. Clothes are definitely not designed for people like me!

Bloody hate clothes shopping. Picking and choosing.

Love this The perfect response.

I’m glad you at least recognise that this is a you issue.

Sneering, judgemental snobbery is an awful quality, much more so than being “rather stupid”.

I’d rather stick pins in my eyes than go shopping. Traipsing in and out of shops, queuing to get into changing rooms, everything looks crap, nothing in your size, queuing up for the tills, having to work out the bloody self service tills, including taking the stupid tags off yourself, lugging shitty paper bags round the rest of the shops that inevitably break.

If you clothes shop online nothing looks like it did in the pictures, nothing fits (again), then traipsing to the post office and spending £££ sending it all back again.

No thank you. I’m just fine in my 10 year olds jeans and ski fleeces.

I think you've got the wrong thread 😉

Isn't that what faces are for?

I know and I can’t edit this response 😬 tech gremlins are getting me this evening!

Clothing isn't a code I particularly understand or am interested in. I don't really know what "statements" people are trying to make with their clothes beyond very broad ones ("I am feeling hot" / "I am going to bed").

I’ve reported my post and explained I can’t edit it 🥴

Steve jobs was famous for always wearing the same clothes. Levi jeans and a black turtleneck.

i don’t go that far - I find jeans too hot in summer and too cold in winter but that is what I aim for.

I do not care about clothes at all and would very happily live in jeans and t shirt my entire life except for the weather.

nor do I care what it projects about me.

Clothes nowadays are crap, even the "high end ones", shit materials, quality nowhere, very strange (oversized) shapes.
Speaking for myself.

I love clothes, I wear bright colours every day. Basically I dress like a posh children’s tv presenter. I say posh because everything’s second hand cashmere/linen/cotton/bamboo/silk.

This is because I spent 30 years in navy or black leggings when I was fat.

I now dress like Iris Apfel, no accessory is too much, no colour is too bright. And I smile all the time.

I don't know any such people.

Tbf I can see someone who dresses to make the statement "look at me" which is quite cringy when above a certain age. For the rest I just see clothes. Clothes are as boring to me as handbags, make up, home decoration etc. I'm very practical when it comes to all of this. But I probably lack something in my brain to explain it- never sees if a friend has got a haircut or changed their home decoration. What I do pick up on immediately is how someone is feeling which somehow compensates for my lack of aestethics for my friends I suppose.

‘Deeper things🤔’

What people wear is Pyschology, sociology, anthropology, economics, politics, ethical, moral, historical, feminist and is symbiotic of many more things.

Can you get ‘deeper’ than that?

Just asking… l have an MA in this area……