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[rinue]

I am no longer dissatisfied with my clothing.

This is momentous, because I've been disatisfied with my clothing for nearly as long as I can remember. Even as I a child, I thought of clothes as costumes; I had a Lois Lane outfit, an Orphan Annie outfit, a Wonder Woman outfit. . . The list goes on. I doubt it helps that my mother is a costumer and I do a fair bit of acting. As a result, clothes and I have a bit of a love/hate relationship. On the one hand, I understand how it can be used. On the other hand, it's very difficult to stop thinking about it in those terms, and so getting dressed in the morning is *work*, even if it's just throwing on a t-shirt on my way out the door.

I have found a solution to this problem. The obvious solution.

I'm not thinking of them as clothes anymore, but rather as an extension of my skin. This is not true of my entire wardrobe, of course, but only certain parts. In particular, one pair of pants and 3 shirts. Ideally, I will never have to wear anything but these items ever again unless I'm trying to present a specific image.

This may seem unreasonable and/or unsanitary, but it's not. People don't need as many clothes as they own. Up until the very recent past, most people owned two sets of clothing - one for every day, and one for special occasions. This is, in fact, the reason we have underwear - in order to keep these clothes in good working order for a long time between washing. The idea that we need more clothes than that is a conspiracy perpetuated by advertizers and manufacturers.

(Note: AlcaSeltzer commercials originally showed one tablet dropping into water. They started showing two, and sales doubled. It had nothing to do with effectiveness - it was pure marketing genius.)

Comments

[tommx.livejournal.com]

I do the same thing. I possess two blazers, both black and wear them with black slacks with either a burgundy, olive, grey or navy blue shirt.

I never wear ties. They're silly.