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Clothing is boring. It's something you have to do, as opposed to what you want to be doing.

Unless it's a T-shirt with some image that relates to your personality.

I'll pay for a service where I can dump my clothes and they'll produce identical new and fitted items.

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Or you know, it's an art and a hobby that people other than you enjoy.

I have nothing against that. Some people collect postage stamps, some play a tube, some dress.

Worth noting that not everyone is of your opinion, and many are interested in clothing (and extensions of it, such as watches and jewelry) as a form of expression.

I would also pay for such a service. I have several old band shirts that belonged to my dad that just can't safely be worn anymore. I'd love to be able to pay someone to recreate those. T-shirts would be the simple case though. I have other clothes that I'd like to clone as well.

This could be a copyright nightmare though.

Fair enough but would you feel comfortable in a suit? If not then maybe it's not boredom dictating your choice of clothes.

This is the primary reason I plan on buying a suit (not a super nice one; I plan on spending a few hundred bucks, maybe $400 total, including tailoring, which means I'm well into 'cheap suit' territory, but meh, amateurs, which is to say, almost everyone I will encounter? will not be able to tell the difference. I know I can't. I /can/ tell the difference between a suit that fits and a suit that doesn't fit, however; thus the tailoring.)

But yeah, I feel /weird/ dressed formally, and I see that as the primary problem I am doing this to overcome. I will probably keep my standard dress informal[1] after I get used to the suit, but being able to switch contexts is a good thing, and will likely be pretty interesting.

I mean, the point here is mostly to get over me feeling weird about formal dress, and I think for me, it's mostly the suit that feels weird. Also, I think leather soles are hazardous, and I have no actual respect for people who judge other people on shoe quality.

[1]current uniform is black cargo pants (moderate expense, "tactical 5.11" brand; reasonable expense and quality, lots of pockets. very convenient for datacenter work; one pocket is for garbage, the rest for tools. Kinda shapeless and baggy, though.) and a black 'prgmr.com' logo T shirt, with very old "Cove Matterhorn" brand boots that have seen years and years of abuse, and several motorcycle accidents. I also have a thin, unkempt 'homeless man' beard and generally only cut my hair when it starts presenting a hazard by blocking my vision.

You may feel that clothing is boring and something you can look past, but you are in a tiny minority. By failing to invest a bit in your appearance you are foolishly forgoing substantial advantages in life.

I don't see how I'm a tiny minority.

In my life I bang on keys all the day long, and keys don't care what I wear. What could change?

here's why: http://putthison.com/post/49277992157/professionalism-severa...

The undertaker at the pet cemetery only buries dead animals, why would they care what he wears? The answer is because other people exist.

People who bury dead animals interact with owners of that animals; I only interact with colleagues and I can't imagine them caring what I wear.

    > I only interact with colleagues and I can't imagine them 
    > caring what I wear.

We do. We don't tell you, and if we're any good we don't show it, but we notice and we draw conclusions about you.

They don't wear anything fancy too en masse.

I'm comfortable at being more or less adequately dressed comparatively.

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