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

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Just on observation, I work in a creative field and I find that when I meet people who dress very quirky they are often very uninteresting and not very creative. I find the most creative and interesting people are those who are not really bothered about how they dress. Has anyone else come across this?

Of course it's goady. There's no way you can know how 'interesting' someone is on a first impression or by how they dress. The most intersting people are the most difficult to get to know, and they don't give shits about how they are perceived and if you find them impressive or not - they might dress odd/quirky and they might not. I work in an academic institution, there are people who dress in all manner of ways, it has very little to do with how interesting/creative/innovative/vain they are.

I think that there are people who badly want to be creative and quirky, and might dress that way to overcompensate. But for every one of those you probably get someone who is genuine and just likes to wear different stuff. To think that people can just be sorted in to 'this type' and 'that type' is dumb and lazy.

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Quirkily not quirky. Or you could say dress in a quirky way or are quirky dressers. But you don’t dress quirky, you dress quirkily. It’s like recommend me , the me is inferred.

thank you.

To confirm to the dictionary definition, it needs to be unconventional or original so doing a thing such as dyeing one’s hair not a natural colour is not quirky I’d suggest as so many people do it. Is probably hard to be quirky now in relation to dress or appearance given how less formal dress is.

How many people have you met like this. Define interesting?

I think the challenge is that if all the dumb and lazy posts went there would be not a lot left on here!

I am quite a quirky dresser, and have often been told I am an interesting person, I have had a bit of an unusual life. But, I am fairly sure that I am very boring to some people-just as some are to me. Nobody is interesting or boring to everyone?

I dress quirky because I like clothes, I don't like following trends, I don't like much mainstream fashion and prefer second hand or unusual things, for environmental reasons. That's just me-I am the same with home decor and various other things.

One person's boring/uninteresting is another persons quirky and fascinating.

To be clear: i wouldn't be on AIBU if i didn't sectretly like a few dumb/lazy posts! 🤣

..as long as it's not cruel or deliberately upsetting a particular group of people, that is.

I have no idea. I think Helena Bonham Carter is probably quite interesting.

I agree. Too many decidedly average/dull people hope they can acquire a fascinatingly creative personality through the medium of a £5.99 packet of blue hair dye and some Lucy & Yak dungarees.

They can't.

Conversely, my cousin who gained a First in Fine Art from Central St Martin's dresses very simply in various shades of grey.

Captain Sensible is, I've met him. I'm pretty sure that Grace Jones is also very interesting, too. Barry Humphries certainly was.

Of course some people would say not. It's all completely objective..

Not exactly sure that’s proving anything / there are a lot more ways to be creative than art and the fact that she does shades of grey suggests that her appearance is very important to her and she is trying to make a personality statement

whereas many people are not

Bit of an over stretch there.

I agree with you OP! Especially people that wear lots of yellow, I find. As well as people that go on about how 'craaazy' they are

I agree. Some people have mentioned Punk or Goth style and I don't see that as quirky as it's conforming to a group aesthetic which is perfectly fine but not quirky.

I love looking at the huge variety of fashion styles whenever I’m out. It is humbling to see how some people naturally put together their outfits and look like they’ve stepped out of a magazine / painting / anime / portal to a different continent. I take street photos using an old slow iPhone and these characters are often the bits that enliven the photos.

Isn’t the point that some quirky dresses are genuine and some can’t pull off the combinations etc

if I was employing someone who is supposed to be creative I would judge their clothes as it’s a reflection of their mind.

and there are people that make the way they dress their personality and that is very dull

but as with people who dress conventionally (what does that really mean?) - quirky dressers are not an homogenous group

I often get the (possibly wrong) impression that people who have loads of tattoos, like all over their face and body, tons of piercings, really cybergoth looking bright hair etc would be quite aloof. Like they think they're superior to someone who looks more ordinary. Like they wouldn't want to talk to me or be my friend.

I am sure that isn't really true at all. It just shows my own insecurities.

The most intersting people are the most difficult to get to know,

Hmm. No. Not necessarily.

I find generalising uninteresting because it seeks to reduce everything to a bland common denominator
And frequently includes being judgemental which I also find uninteresting.

I may be currently naked / wearing M&S jeans and sweater / in abaya and niqab / in gym gear / wearing dungarees and a vintage 70s blouse … in case you wish to contextualise, dismiss or validate my opinion accordingly.

I imagine you get creative people who dress quirky, plain and somewhere in between. Maybe they give off an impression of high creativity with their dress so their actual ability is falling short in comparison.

Surely punk and goth are by definition quirky compared to the mainstream?

But I completely accept your point that within that there is a conformity.

To me quirky is unique - so goth and emo and dressing like a kids tv presenter (as pp said) isn’t particularly unique and is a ‘style’

to me a quirky dresser sits outside style buckets and you wouldn’t be able to say what style they are

I think there no correlation between the two.

I'm more talking about people who buy quirky clothes off the rail rather than people who shop vintage or charity shop finds.

Thanks for replying to my dumb and lazy post. I gues you're just as judgemental as me then!