You wear the same clothing everyday so you are more recognisable?
That's not normal and is certainly not required.
That's not normal and is certainly not required.
>That's not normal
that's... kindof the point, no? I'm trying to be abnormally recognizable.
(I mean, to be clear, I'm not a stinky hipster who goes for months without washing his jeans; I have a whole bunch of these things, and I wash them. They are just all the same.)
But yeah, I was joking with someone else I met a bit ago. "Yeah, I wear the same thing every day. Got a whole closet full of these. You know, like Steve Jobs... but without the good taste."
(I mean, I understand the advantages of fitting your clothing to the situation; that's not my question. My question is, if the situation calls for a suit, what's the problem with wearing the same style of suit every time the situation calls for a suit? the same style of T shirt when the situation calls for a T shirt, etc...)
Or, maybe you are just telling me to fit my clothing to the situation. Which I'm not doing right now, mostly as a conservation of effort thing, which is to say, I'm too goddamn lazy to bother. But I understand why, at least.
You're that uninteresting guy from the office that always wears the same clothes.....
But, uh, yeah. I mean, I'm still thinking that the opposite is more true. I mean, fictional characters often do exactly the same thing[1], really for similar reasons. And, as you point out, it's somewhat unusual, which is not boring, even if it might be offensive to some people.
On being more interesting... heh. I should re-arrange my closet like the tvtropes photo below, and post photos.
[1]http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LimitedWardrobe
The whole same clothes thing you have going on is just odd. You don't need it and it just makes you strange rather than cool and interesting.
You're not a fictional character.
Seriously? you think /that/ is what makes me strange? I'd be "Cool and interesting" if I just learned to dress a little nicer? Oh man. You Java folks really /are/ different.
>You're not a fictional character.
No... but the popularity of cosplaying[1] in our culture aside, stories and archetypes are how we understand humanity. Marketers try to build the public perception of their company into a sort of archetype that consumers can understand and relate to. It's a model for understanding and predicting behavior. (Personally, I don't know if it's a good model... but it is... poetic?) To the degree that I try to construct a public persona, I keep that in mind. (Not that I have done a very good job of staying within an archetype... I suspect doing so would require changing myself more than I like? But acting more consistently, really, is not a bad thing.)
[1] Seriously, like half my friends go to those anime conventions. I think it's kinda weird. My buddy runs http://i360.com - a cosplay photography website. He assures me it's not pornographic... but personally, I think that makes it more weird, not less.