I think my mother would have been delighted for me to have voiced any opinion at all about what I wore and so on. Mostly, I was exactly as caring about the whole subject as your average boy: I didn't want to cut my hair because it was mine (but all I ever did with it was keep it in a ponytail or a braid, because it was wavy-curly and tangled easily), and clothes had to be comfortable and not reveal too much of what was beneath them. And that was it. She was from a New York City garment-district family, and she was totally bewildered by how little I cared about all this stuff. I hated shopping for clothes and used to take a book along and hide under the clothes racks until my mother finished picking things out for me and dragged me out to try them on.
That's another reason why I love Ouran High School Host Club: Haruhi's attitude toward clothes and the whole boy/girl social scene is very much like mine was at that age.
The kind of clothes that suit my figure (no waist, busty, wide-shouldered, relatively narrow hips compared with the rest, potbelly like a guy) aren't generally pitched for teens, and I had a serious face almost from grade school on. So all those "fun" clothes weren't all that much fun for me!
I used to dream of being slim and having straight black hair - I'm not certain why - so all that Orientalesque stuff appealed to me, but I didn't ever think of it as applying to me in real life. It was a revelation - but not the sort you might think - during my early 20s, when I had contact lenses (can't wear 'em anymore), when my sister-in-law-to-be convinced me to have a makeover. The woman did me up with bronze and violet shades - very ethnic - and I woke up to the idea that a more Bohemian look might be the ticket, even though I had no intention of putting stuff on my face everyday to accomplish that. It took several more years to realize that lots of interesting layers just made me look more square. So I've settled into relatively simple clothes with clean lines and some Bohemian/arty accessories, especially earrings.
(And I had my colors "done" - I'm a Vibrant Summer, according to one of the popular classifications.)
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I think my mother would have been delighted for me to have voiced any opinion at all about what I wore and so on. Mostly, I was exactly as caring about the whole subject as your average boy: I didn't want to cut my hair because it was mine (but all I ever did with it was keep it in a ponytail or a braid, because it was wavy-curly and tangled easily), and clothes had to be comfortable and not reveal too much of what was beneath them. And that was it. She was from a New York City garment-district family, and she was totally bewildered by how little I cared about all this stuff. I hated shopping for clothes and used to take a book along and hide under the clothes racks until my mother finished picking things out for me and dragged me out to try them on.
That's another reason why I love Ouran High School Host Club: Haruhi's attitude toward clothes and the whole boy/girl social scene is very much like mine was at that age.
The kind of clothes that suit my figure (no waist, busty, wide-shouldered, relatively narrow hips compared with the rest, potbelly like a guy) aren't generally pitched for teens, and I had a serious face almost from grade school on. So all those "fun" clothes weren't all that much fun for me!
I used to dream of being slim and having straight black hair - I'm not certain why - so all that Orientalesque stuff appealed to me, but I didn't ever think of it as applying to me in real life. It was a revelation - but not the sort you might think - during my early 20s, when I had contact lenses (can't wear 'em anymore), when my sister-in-law-to-be convinced me to have a makeover. The woman did me up with bronze and violet shades - very ethnic - and I woke up to the idea that a more Bohemian look might be the ticket, even though I had no intention of putting stuff on my face everyday to accomplish that. It took several more years to realize that lots of interesting layers just made me look more square. So I've settled into relatively simple clothes with clean lines and some Bohemian/arty accessories, especially earrings.
(And I had my colors "done" - I'm a Vibrant Summer, according to one of the popular classifications.)