My dad thinks I dress like a fourteen year old. Apparently my love for granny boots, skull patterns and Palestine scarves makes me look like a teenager. Great. Then perhaps I’ll look like twenty-five when I’m thirty-five. I wouldn’t complain about that.
Teenagers get away with a lot of crazy stuff which someone older don’t. But as long as you’re ready to take the conflicts which may arise because of the way you dress shouldn’t that be OK? Who’s to decide what’s appropriate and not for a certain age anyway?
My personal experience is that if you’re friendly and polite people will like you no matter how you dress. Some of the nicest people I’ve met have been some of the freakiest looking. Just as some of the rudest people I’ve met have been some of the most well dressed.
What’s your opinions on this?
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I must agree with you of course, I never to judge of someones apperance until proven a jerk
Granny boots is teenager wear? I thought they all wore UGGs and shit =O
Though no matter what you wear people will judge you so it’s hard, especially if you wear a palestinian scarf, that’s like the most common item on left wing people(Im not saying it’s bad just that it’s almost a uniform
I love people who dress with a sense of fashion and with personality!
I think that clothing is a great method of self-expression and that trends are something to abandon, not follow like a mindless sheep. I still wear character/band tees, arm gloves, jelly bracelets and combat boots, and I’m in my 20’s. If it makes you feel good, makes you feel confidant, I see no shame in it. It’s a good way to weed out the judgmentals anyway. If someone’s judging me based on how i’m dressed, I know that their opinions are outdated and frivolous. Who needs to be surrounded by that?
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately too. I dress like a teenager and I’m sure people probably make a judgment as soon as they see me. I like wearing jeans and a tee shirt, chucks, and skull patterns and I would just feel wrong in anything else. :´( After forming an opinion people are probably amazed when I open my mouth and sound intelligent and mature.
Maybe our styles will stay with us like the people that grew up in the 80s, they didn’t completely let go of the style they had as teenagers. Our kids will laugh at us too… or copy off of us!
I totally agree with your blog! ;D
It doesnt show who we r by the way we dress.
I totally know what you mean… Apparently having an “alternative” style = teenager. As if skulls and band tees are only for the youngsters and everybody HAVE to dress “normal” or “adult” when they reach a certain age
I used to feel slightly bad for going to work dressed like this but then I decided to just forget about it. It’s just like you say: if having this style makes me look younger then I am then isn’t that a good thing? 
I say everyone should dress as they want and if people have a problem with that, then… well let ‘em *shrug*
Tänkte skriva på svenska faktiskt, men sen tänkte jag att det ju faktiskt är artigare på nåt sätt att skriva på engelska när alla angra gör det. Så alla kan förstå och så
I kind of agree and disagree with you. Of course you shouldn’t judge someone by the way they dress. But I do think that are appropriate things to wear and that they change as you get older. I wouldn’t want to see a 60 year old wearing something that a 20 year old wears. I think as you get older your wardrobe should also change.
thanks i needed some pink,who knows what my next layout will be like
I hate when people think that if you look lternative and you’re over 18 you’re probably stupid/rude/etc..
People will like you no matter what if you are nice and frieldy, but people still tend to judge you before they get to know you, which sucks.
my dad still thinks i dress like a little kid. -.- he called me whitewash a few years ago. i’m like whatever, dad. sometimes the things adults say is harsh and yet we take it to heart. making it let us feel uncomfortable every possible way. :\
take care<3
I dress myself like a teenager too, it’s both good and bad I guess, sometimes people jus won’t take you as serious and sometimes it’s sucky being treated a bit like a kid. But as you said it is also easier to get away with stuff
I don’t think it’s the clothing that makes a person. But it does help boost the image, but clothing is just an expression of one’s self. Not really about a person’s character. hehe :p
I totally agree with you. What clothes they wear is not an issue, people are better person when you get to know them, rather than misjudging them, sometimes people you avoid because of what they wear, are the ones who are faithful to you when you two became friends.
And can we be affie again?
I got the EXACT SAME THING just the other day … And not for the first time.
Some around our age chick told me, ‘At least I don’t dress like a 13 year old Hot Topic goth’, as if this was the best zing in the entire world.
Um, no. I believe that if I ever saw a 13 year old goth — One that shopped at Hot Topic or elsewhere — I’d think he/she to be quite cute, as I obviously like the alternative look.
But then again, who should expect logic from someone who judges another on the way they dress, even via the Internet?
Oh, and to add one more thing — This summer at I was the park, and I saw this woman who was at least 50 or 60 … She was dressed in a combination of old school punk/biker chick fashion, and she looked *fucking awesome*. Sooo … Massive lolz @ anyone who thinks dressing alternative should stop the day someone turns 14.
“My personal experience is that if you’re friendly and polite people will like you no matter how you dress. Some of the nicest people I’ve met have been some of the freakiest looking” ~ I agree completely with you & thus I don’t care how you dress. It should depend more on the personality, not the style.