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

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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?

I had the thought today that I don't like clothes at all. I hate how they feel. I was shopping with my DC and thought I'd love to try that but now I'm to fat and older, nothing suits me. So I live in leggings and jumpers.
In answer to your OP, I don't know how to dress my body.

Absolutely missed the entire point of the thread.

It’s not about why you do and don’t buy clothes.

Again clearly the concept has been too difficult for you to understand. I never said it’s about spending hours working out what to wear, or spending ££££ a year.

People use clothes to express who they are.
What you wear shows your personality, mood, identity, confidence and how you want the world to see you. It’s basically a form of non-verbal communication and self-expression.

I think when people don’t care about their appearance, it’s usually because they don’t like the way that they look and/or they don’t believe that they can look good, so they don’t bother to make the effort.

Do people really say they don't like clothes?

Are you just assuming from seeing the way some people dress that they don't care how they look?

I pretty much live in black joggers and t-shirts/hoody. Basic Primark stuff.
I just want to feel comfortable and covered up. I am not trying to make an impression or express myself via clothing. Clothing to me is just a practical thing. And I go in Primark because I know when my clothing wears out, I can go in there and pick up the same item again. Straight in and out. I fucking hate clothes shopping.

No, it’s you who isn’t getting it. It’s a form of non-verbal communication and self-expression for some people. Not all. Your inability to grasp that concept, despite the many answers on this thread to that effect, is astounding. The way you then insult those who don’t fall in with your world view is just sad. Your attitude has made this a really depressing thread

Quite...

And sometimes what they are expressing about themselves is, 'I'm a person who dresses for comfort', or, 'I'm a person who doesn't care what you think of my sartorial choices'.

I was interested in clothes in my teens and early 20s but then life got busy with sick parents . Things are calmer now in my 50s but I can’t be arsed to give any headspace to clothes as I just don’t see it as necessary beyond them being weather appropriate and I prefer to think about things that I personally find interesting and clothing just isn’t it currently .

I just don’t care what people think of me if they pass me in the street. I have enough confidence in myself to know my self worth and don’t need to be validated by others. My non verbal communication is feel free to judge me, I don’t care I guess, I hadn’t really thought about it.

My cousin loves clothes, they are an important part of who she is and I get that, just as she gets I have no interest. My Dad always dressed very smartly, that gene passed me by.

OP, are you interested in having a conversation or in telling everyone that they're missing the point?

I don't believe that (very many people) don't care what they wear. Take the person who wears blue jeans, a hoodie, and the same pair of trainers every day and only replaces them when they wear out. Hand them, say, an itchy skirt suit with nylons and high-heeled pumps or a crop top, bubble mini, and nine inch platform sandals and they'll care, all right.

What they mean when they say they don't care is probably just that they choose not to spend their limited time, energy, and money varying the type and style of clothes they wear, possibly because they DON'T see clothing as an important way to "express oneself" and perhaps don't place a lot of emphasis on what impression they make physically. While preoccupation with adornment is so common across human societies regardless of time and place that it sometimes seems ubiquitous, it's also pretty inevitable that many individuals will reject it because they are contrary buggers for various reasons.

I wear what I feel like wearing. It says nothing about me, unless I somehow become a different person when I change my clothes. The sales don't decide my personality.

Which was…..?

Absoluteley !

I relate strongly to all you wrote, and even now in my twilight years I still revel in both high fashion, and sturdy timeless classics (such as the King’s old tweed overcoat!)

However, it’s all academic pleasure, because what I love most for myself is severe anonymity and pretty much unisex gear. A few clues reveal my sex but it’s not a flipping press release on the matter.
I’m damned if I want to communicate wordlessly with strangers; there are far too many people around as it is, never mind engage with ‘em!

So I’d ogle and adore a perfect Dior suit, or a Simone Rocha dress, but it'd be hanging on the wall like a painting! (Meanwhile I am dressed like one of Hannah’s sisters, in Woody Allen’s film)

I completely agree with you op, and I think the psychology of clothes and footwear is so important too.

I find it sad that such an insanely trivial matter can affect your day so much. I have hundreds of things going through my mind every day, I don't have time to be focusing on a colour not matching "properly".

I loathe shopping for clothes. I'm a tall Watson. I feel fortunate to wear a uniform for work, but dread looking for ordinary clothes.
Our DD is graduating again next month so I need to find something for that.
Our high street has died apart from primark and bon marches so I will need to go to Norwich which is an hour's drive away.

Can't edit it. Tall fatty

Christ you’re rude.

Maybe focus less on your clothes and more on manners?

I wouldn’t want to get on with someone that shallow and who repeatedly uses the crying emoji like they are twelve.

Totally, for sure, my amazingggg opinion

Why are people so obsessed by what others wear, if people want to be obsessed by clothes that is up to them but why the need to judge those who aren't?

I don’t express myself through my clothes, I’m not even sure what that means.
I like to look nice and presentable but hate shopping and don’t have much interest in clothes apart from finding things which look nice and presentable. I buy off vinted so I actually have quite a lot of clothes which didn’t cost very much and I wear things according to what I’m going, where I’m going, how I feel and what the weather is like.
I do like fashion influencers on Instagram so maybe I have more interest in clothes than I think but it’s not a passion or a love just an interest

I don't really assess "who people are" by what they are wearing. Its way too influenced by what they can afford, their size etc

I'll choose jumpers in colours i like but i honestly mainly want clothing to be functional and comfortable - i can 100% see why in the past people went for simple loose dresses, tunics & leggings.