Psychology messaging clothes we wear today

[mr seamstress]

No matter what a person wears, comfort and adequate protection should come first. What psychology message are you giving with clothes you wear? Is it adequate protection from the elements and comfort? Lets avoid same mistakes a lot of women make; wearing attire that looks great, while in pain. They do this seeing it a way to belong in a certain group. Our clothes gives a psychology message about ourself. It makes a difference how productive we are and our own confidence. It benefits the world when an individual is allow to wear what they want to wear.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog ... le-clothes

https://psychologyorg.com/psychology-of ... -and-self/

[Mouse]

No matter what a person wears, comfort and adequate protection should come first. What psychology message are you giving with clothes you wear? Is it adequate protection from the elements and comfort? Lets avoid same mistakes a lot of women make; wearing attire that looks great, while in pain. They do this seeing it a way to belong in a certain group. Our clothes gives a psychology message about ourself. It makes a difference how productive we are and our own confidence. It benefits the world when an individual is allow to wear what they want to wear.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog ... le-clothes

https://psychologyorg.com/psychology-of ... -and-self/

This is a fascinating subject that I play with everyday. Yes, comfort and adequate protection is on the list of requirements, but depending on where you are going and who you are going to meet, they may not be at the top. My life falls into two main clothing requirements and I term them "Work" and "Play".

Work
Lets be honest here first, if I wanted an easy time, with no hassle, warm, hard wearing, no bother, a pair of black jeans, as I wore for 40 years at work are great...... But I wear a skirt....why?.....because I want to. Since the end of COVID, I have worn a range of kilts and skirts and to me the experience has been magic. I look down, mid way through a difficult day, and know I am special, since I am free to wear a skirt. Yes it affects my work, ladders are more tricky, getting into tight spaces can be more difficult, but the flip side is that I am so happy and positive. My design will work, I will be able to fix this problem, I will be able to dig myself out of this hole. My style gives the outside world a view of an independent, interesting different man. It helps that I bring interesting tech into a project and explaining how it works, gives the impression of me knowing what I am talking about and so I often get the nickname "Prof". The skirt is now part of my working image which sets me apart from others.

Play
The full on play part of my life is full expression of me, and what I want to project to the world. Comfort and adequate protection are pushed lower down the dressing list. Dressing head to toe in latex with 7" boots on my feet is difficult, impractical, on the edge. But the rewards and the inner feelings are off the scale. Less demanding materials are also so much fun to wear, even if the skirts are to the floor with a large petticoat. If I am happy with my outfit, then wearing it outside in public is so much fun and seeing the reaction of others, so interesting.
I do take into consideration how far I am walking and what surface I am walking on. Boots and shoes are worn to look good, but allow me to get to where I want to go. Heels can be comfortable and used to walk a long way, but the quality of the boot or shoe is so important to the comfort. As a man I have studied the engineering of the heels I buy and know what works.

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The two articles are interesting, but the reasons we wear what we wear, are very complex and for us MIS. The reasons can be from deep in our memories from childhood. The skirts and clothes I wear are putting to rest many of the disappointments from earlier in life where I was watching other people dressing and wearing what I wanted to, but couldn't.

I love meeting new people now, as I want to see what they make of me and my style. The consultations I had with the psychiatrist and the brain professor were really interesting since both times I turned up in a bright orange ruffled skirt.


This picture, for me, shows the peace and total fun of my current skirted life. This is me at breakfast in a small hotel in the middle of Aberdeen. The previous day and night I had been with Stevie, Susie and others, partying. Early this morning I had been out in 6" heels and one of my favourite skirts, wandering the main streets of the town. Now I am taking a leisurely breakfast deciding whether to go home on the train in heels or change for flats? My choice, I love the heels on my feet, but I have three trains to catch and I may have to run...

So yes I am very interested in psychology of why I dress as I do and what effect it has on the people I meet. But "physical comfort" is not top of my list most of the time. However "Mental comfort" is greatly served by what I wear.

[crfriend]

For this ol' boy, the psychology used to be of importance because I was quite aware of the way I was using non-verbal signalling and "vocabulary" to get a point home. However, in recent times, and the fact that society is getting ever more toxic by the day (as evidenced by some commentary of colour recently [0]), and more than a bit subtly more dangerous, means I've pulled my horns in a bit, and I'm nowhere near as flashy as in the past.

In days past, the only boundaries between "work" and "play" was that work attire was a bit more staid and formal than informal and fun. But times were more accepting then. Nice compliments grew farther and farther apart, and then -- more distressingly -- when recently the praise originally given to my fancy clothes nave been perniciously redirected into praise when I'm in male drab. This was particularly heartbreaking, but understandable in a society that's on its one-way path to oblivion.



[0] More on this when the analysis comes back. I've been thinking about this for a long time.