Stranger's Reactions to your Clothes?

[anomolies]

what's this HL hooded sweater? Now i'm really curious.

[Denpatou]

i was at an anime convention this past weekend and a female friend called my _7 fw10 nylon serge coat "pretentious"--she had just explained to me the nature of her country lolita getup the night before...

[GlassOrganelle]

Really? I've heard of some of those Lolita girls... pretty damn pretentious about their brand skirts/prints.

[cowsareforeating]

she needs to chill, pot calling the kettle black again...


on a side note, i respect what a lot of them try...a nd fail to do ^^ few good lolita outfits out there

[Shucks]

random colleague: "nice skirt"

i was wearing drop crotch pants. curious to hear his reaction when i wear a skirt. "nice pants"?

[obsi]

Started working at a new office recently so lots of comments and questions on my clothes from new coworkers lately. Best one was "you look like a ninja-biker from an anime". Had to explain twisted seams to some of them today aswell.

[phiman]

i study in a rather small city called Passau, and since i moved here bout one and a half years ago, i never ever got any negative reactions from strangers regarding my clothes, which i find rather astonishing since the term "provincial" is quite applicable for Passau. i actually attract much more wry looks when walking around in Munich or Vienna.

[beardown]

I was getting food last night and I heard someone behind me say, 'Look...Charles Dickens is getting a pizza.'

I'm guessing it may have been the fingerless gloves and the hat. But I was also wearing a CDG boiled wool jacket and some cropped pants with Guidi boots.

So for those keeping score, in my wonderful town, I've been referred to as a chimney sweep, an amish dude and now Charles Dickens.

"It was the worst of times."

[copacetic]

heckler obviously doesn't understand that charles dickens is not a character in his own novels, i.e. dickens never dressed that like in his adult life.

[Faust]

Yep, should've gone with "Oliver Twist."

[beardown]

That was my first thought: "How in the fuck does this redneck know what Charles Dickens wore?"

Maybe even Bob Cratchit or the Artful Dodger?

[soulshui]

chinese kid view me as alien. because i don't wear lv or gucci. i couldn't care less. they don't know dick well enough.

[BSR]

chinese kid view me as alien. because i don't wear lv or gucci. i couldn't care less. they don't know dick well enough.

yeah fuck them. illiterate, soulless people.

[michael_kard]

Had to explain twisted seams to some of them today aswell.

I did attempt to do this once as well, until a friend remarked "Yeah, just like the Primark jeans". Then I realized the redundancy of what I was saying.

[Faust]

yeah fuck them. illiterate, soulless people.

Now, now, let's not (or lets?!) reopen the whole fashion semiotics discussion again...