Cheapest/comfortable/most convenient? What about something you actually like? Goths, preps etc. all dress the way they do because they like that look. Granted there are people that follow fashions just because they want to look like everybody else, but... you'll find that those people are actually quite rare. :/ I don't always like the look of t-shirt and jeans. I wear what I like to represent me.
Yeah uh I understand where you're coming from but I feel like wearing certain clothes in order to "represent you" is really superficial and materialistic and I think kind of stems from hidden insecurities. For example, paying for a shirt of, say, the band Green Day is kind of like sending a message to people around you like "oh, hey, I like punk rock music, I was cool enough to go to a rock show, also the red on black makes me look kind of edgy, do you think I'm edgy?" which I guess might represent you in the sense that you in theory like Green Day and in theory you're kind of edgy so you might want people to be aware of that. Whether these are true statements about you or not is irrelevant, but if they are true about you, can't you just like Green Day and be edgy on your own? Why do you need to advertise this fact? And if they aren't true, why are you pretending to be someone you aren't?
Do you see what I'm trying to say? If I see someone trying to be fashionable, I'm not going to hold it against them or anything, or say "you are a bad person", but if I see someone going the opposite way and not caring I will definitely gain respect for them. I guess it's just a personal thing about me that I don't really feel the need to selectively send messages about myself with what I wear, I just try to
be myself and just show that in my everyday actions. You are not a "goth" or a "prep", you are
you. Do you know what I mean?
But I still definitely think society would be better off if no one cared about their personal appearance. Obviously something like wearing a Green Day shirt to school is very harmless, but when you get into things like people spending absurd amounts of money on designer jeans, or buying like fifty pairs of shoes for different special occasions, or spending hours picking out the right wardrobe for the party, I just think that's really unhealthy and it would be better if everyone could be themselves. And suits should just not even exist at all. It's definitely unfortunate how billions of people all over the world voluntarily make themselves unnecessarily uncomfortable every day in order to fulfill some bizarre social contract, one which desperately needs to be shed.
also even if you don't care about your personal appearance (even I would somewhat frown upon wearing band shirts/gym kit all the time, especially in a social context), everyone else will. when you apply for a job interview, or try to get into clubs, or meet new people, people will judge you based on what clothes you wear. that isn't to say that you need to splash out on £100 Gucci suits or whatever, but at least take into consideration what other people might think.
I don't understand what you are trying to say? Maybe it's different in England but wearing jeans and a t shirt around is kind of the norm here. I really don't see who among my peers would judge me, unless I was trying to hang out with a group of people who wouldn't hang out with me if I wasn't wearing Abercrombie/Hollister, whom of course, I would definitely not want to hang out with in the first place. In my own experience, people are much more likely to judge people for "trying too hard" to be fashionable than they are for someone who is just wearing normal clothes. And if someone is going to judge me, then why shouldn't they? They would look at me and say "this guy does not care a whole lot about his wardrobe" and they would be completely right.
