However when you like how you look you tend to be more confident in yourself ergo people notice that, and many will give compliments.
I agree with this to some extent. With stuff that isn't too far away from what is deemed acceptable to your culture it goes pretty well, and there is nothing worse than someone wearing what is "right" and looking uncomfortable. When you stray too far away from what everyone else is ok with you could possibly run into problems, and this could result in assault or physical violence.
Somewhat related, I went into a seasonal costume shop today, and aside from most stuff being fairly cheesy, the few things I found that I sorta liked were "for women" (i very much fit several US stereotypes of men, and my somewhat plain "masculine" clothes support that). I don't generally care about labeling, however I get nervous when I think I might be making other people uncomfortable, so I tried to be aware of that, however no women that were not accompanying me were in that area while I was looking around. There were some nice things, but I was looking for crushed velvet opera gloves (for everyday wear). All they had were "opera gloves" that were elbow length, and I have somewhat long arms, plus no crushed velvet, so I looked at some other stuff in that section, and we moved on to the youth section because I am considering getting some bunny ears.
Since they were Louise Belcher (see above) bunny ears I was told I could wear a green shirt, or my female companion could wear a green dress, which I of course blurt out "why can't I wear the green dress?" in response, not intending to make the woman helping us uncomfortable, but probably doing it anyway. Maybe they should have male bunny ears, like below, to avoid situations like that, not that it matters.
If I get bunny ears you can count on me wearing them publicly sometimes. As for the gloves, which I have been searching for for a decade, and I might have to give up on the long crushed velvet ones, and just buy some fetish ones I guess, but I don't know if latex would last as long, although it would probably not draw as much attention under long sleeves as the others would.
At one point I stated that I was probably wearing the scariest "costume" in the store since I was wearing a jacket that has a Weyland-Yutani logo patch on it. I suspect most people miss what I am getting at with that. Poor fools.
FWIW, I find a smile always helps to combat accusatory stares in your direction. If you're like me it might be more that you just forgot to smile today, rather than what you're wearing especially.
I never trust anyone wearing a smile!
Well, maybe I would make an exception for this guy:
Oh, also, after our flooding we also got smacked with some weather thrown out by the hurricane, so I was without electricity for a few days (and my Pandora battery died
), and now our water may be contaminated with sewage and such. I got to go play in the rain...I mean I had to go check out the damage, as an oak tree fell down
and our cable somehow got wrapped around a tree. I enjoyed the aftermath, and had anticipated it all, and much more, so I still have some clean water and other ways to disinfect it, and we have a filter. I kinda feel bad for the trees that died, or are dying I guess, and wish it was early enough in the year for us to have weather that cuttings from the oak tree might have survived if I put them in the soil around where the roots used to be. Also, the flooding was much worse in other areas around me, with only a bit at one end of the land we live on.
