Corey Posted July 31, 2002 Share Posted July 31, 2002 [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Navi [/i] [B]What a bunch of generalizations,[/B][/QUOTE] I only wrote that because that's what I see in my school. To wristcutter: I must be an exception to the rule. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrist cutter Posted July 31, 2002 Share Posted July 31, 2002 Dude, just think about it for awhile... soon you will realize there are no exceptions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corey Posted July 31, 2002 Share Posted July 31, 2002 I did. There is always an exception. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navi Posted July 31, 2002 Share Posted July 31, 2002 [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by DarkOrderKnight [/i] [B]I did. There is always an exception. [/B][/QUOTE] You have not read Orwell's 1984, have you? ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiroMunkie Posted July 31, 2002 Share Posted July 31, 2002 [color=indigo]People should be able to dress how they want to dress, but with certain limits (which our parents so much like to try and enforce sometimes). Most with that I'm speaking of "revealing" clothing, most commonly seen with girls (since typically girls wear too little, and guys wear too much). Just to throw in a personal opinion, if I see a girl with such "revealing" clothing, my mind is filled with nothing but profane and duragatory thoughts. A high percentage of the time, people dress like they do to "express" who they are. So when I see a person will "revealing" clothing, I go with the stereotype and don't think much of them... at all. Some may say gonig with the stereotype is wrong cause not everybody is that way. A high percentage of them are though, thus it is a stereotype, and so the chances of them fitting into the stereotype is very likely. DoK, I must say you made me laugh when you said: "I follow my own style. I wear the baggiest and largest bottomed pants I can find (I looked at a pair of 72" diamiter bottoms recently) shirts that usually have some odd design on them or some wierd saying, lots and lots of metal, and boots." You just described a [b][i]lot[/i][/b] of people. Even by saying you "follow your own style" you fall into another group that syays that they "follow their own style" (but we all know they really don't). I bet if you looked into the group, you would notice a lot of them look similar. So "their style" seems to be quite catchy, or maybe it just wasn't their style to begin with. Perhaps they are just the only one in his/her group of friends that dresses the way they do, so he/she thinks he/she's "original", thus having "their own style." Many times though, as I have fallen victim to this plenty of times, one has a supposed original though, only to find out it has been done before. I, myself, like to accessorize more than anything. Most things I get from my dog... When he grew out of his old dog collar, I took it. Whenever we got him a new choke chain, I always took the old ones. A while ago (early this year, late last year) I was cleaning my room (a rare thing) and I came upon a couple of the chains. I looped them together, yet I had no way of securing them around my neck. Then I remembered I had some small, yet heavy, padlocks. So I used that. I had never seen that done before. Yet I later learned that Sid Vicious did the padlock thing, and Dez of Coal Chamber does also (he got it from Sid Vicious). So no matter how much you think you are being original you're not, but if it makes you comfortable and whatever, go for it. More power to you.[/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corey Posted July 31, 2002 Share Posted July 31, 2002 I think I will now just to understand what you are talking about Navi. :whoops: EDIT- Damn sametime posts... Of course I know people dress like me, or I dress like them, whichever you prefer. I still like to consider that I 'follow my own style' because I did something that many people are now doing. I started something. That may not mean much to you but it does to me. And for that, and many other reasons, I consider to be folowing my own style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrist cutter Posted July 31, 2002 Share Posted July 31, 2002 You still don't get it -_-; Oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genkai Posted July 31, 2002 Share Posted July 31, 2002 yeah.....i agree, you need to have a different outlook on life....what's cool is that you meet up with people who also have different outlooks than most, but not the same as you.....maybe that's why me and my group of friends isolate ourselves and then yell at eachother over a random issue(i.e. how to eat a pizza backwards and if it's really that easy). of course, i think being you're own person can mean making your own clothes..well, not LITERALLY, but i mean that you can make you're own genre of fashion.. then again, you could buy normal clothes and mke them your own, like me.....(i.e. taking black shirt, faded cargos. cut out the word "marfy" out of cargos, sew/iron into shirt. iron stickers with higlighter on the t-shirt in the hole in the "a" in "marfy")... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corey Posted July 31, 2002 Share Posted July 31, 2002 [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by genkai_yyh[/i] [B]what's cool is that you meet up with people who also have different outlooks than most, but not the same as you.....[/B][/QUOTE] Now this guy's got it right. My praises to you genkai_yyh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS Vegeta Posted July 31, 2002 Share Posted July 31, 2002 Ok, my parents really don't care how I dress. I wear baggy jeans, andjust some random shirts from Hot Topic, Suncoast, ect. Not to mention Wal Mart. Lots of people dress the way I do, adn that doesn't bother. If lots of people didn't dress the way I did, it wouldn't bother. Usually when people start going against the crowd, just for the sake of going against the crowd, they become the crowd. I have been wearing the same type of clothes scince I was old enough to decide what clothes I wanted. About 2 years ago people would call me a freak for dressing the wa I do. Now, I supposedly follow the crowd. Even though I have always dressed this way. It makes no sense to me. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinzam v Posted July 31, 2002 Share Posted July 31, 2002 Ah, you guys are lucky your parents don't care how you dress, my parents shout at me if i don't dress right. Say its a hot day and i put my coat on and my parents see it then its just 2 whole hours of my parents shouting at me:mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genkai Posted July 31, 2002 Share Posted July 31, 2002 wow, harsh........... i guess my parents wouldn't let me wear a shirt that listed a thousand ways to use the F word, but it's not a regime, probably cause i only go cloths shopping every few months...mm.......pop taaaaaaarts...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kei Posted July 31, 2002 Share Posted July 31, 2002 [color=blue]My mom was always on me yelling "Lighten up your wardrobe! It's too dark!" But I like to wear dark stuff. It was very annoying every morning when I got up, came downstairs to eat breakfast, and ended up getting a fashion lecture. I mean, as long as it's not advertising outright murder, why can't I wear it? I got tired of hearing the same thing every day, so I broke down and bought a yellow Tweety shirt. She leaves me alone now. :D[/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinetic Posted July 31, 2002 Author Share Posted July 31, 2002 [color=darkblue] Was that the T-Shirt you wore in the picture you showed us? Or am I thinking of someone else? [/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kei Posted July 31, 2002 Share Posted July 31, 2002 [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Aries [/i] [B][color=darkblue] Was that the T-Shirt you wore in the picture you showed us? Or am I thinking of someone else? [/color] [/B][/QUOTE] [color=blue]:bluesweat I didn't think anyone remembered that pic. Yes, that's the one I'm talking about. I've got it on right now as a matter of fact.[/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrist cutter Posted July 31, 2002 Share Posted July 31, 2002 [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Twinzam v [/i] [B]Say its a hot day and i put my coat on and my parents see it then its just 2 whole hours of my parents shouting at me.[/B][/QUOTE] Why the he[i][/i]ll would you wear a coat on a hot day? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Posted July 31, 2002 Share Posted July 31, 2002 My parents have no problem with my clothes... except a couple times my mom nagged me about some low-rise pants. Other than that my clothes are fine by them............. in fact I think my mom wears as much of my clothing as I do -__- that's kind of aggrivating after a while.... she's a kid, I swear mentally she's a kid.... As for this mini discussion of style and whatnot, your state of mind shouldn't be affected by your clothes. I made the statement backwards on purpose. Think about it, you say you match your clothes to your mood, when in reality your mood is more than likely [i]created[/i] by your clothes. Colors can, after a period of time, have a psychological effect on people who wear a certain hue on a regular basis, whether it be black, red, blue, whatever. For example, I wear blue all the time, and blue is a peaceful, soothing, mellow color. That's how the core of my personality is usually, and of course there are other elements to how I act, but whenever I wear a nice shade of blue, I just feel calm all over. A friend of mine wears red a lot, and red's a passionate, aggressive, and sometimes angry color. I've never really asked her how she feels in certain shirts O_o, but often I'll see her aggression come out more when she's wearing red. She probably doesn't even realize it, just like some people don't conciously realize their black t-shirts are putting them in a bad mood, and this is just from my own observations which have validity to them. Anyway my point is that your "state of mind" can be fooling you. If you only feel the way you do only when your wear a certain ensemble, you might want to check yourself. You're not so independent from image as you think you are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiroMunkie Posted July 31, 2002 Share Posted July 31, 2002 [color=indigo]Although I do slightly agree with you Anna, of course not everybody is affected by their clothes. I wear dark colored clothes, because I don't like to stand out. Even in a group of brightly colored people, someone would be more likely to see all the different colors other people are wearing, rather than all the colors I'm not wearing. When it comes to my shirts, it's a rarity that I'm not in a black one, yet I am not always in a bad mood. It is other things around me that would put me in a bad mood. And again, DoK, you make me laugh. You say "I did something that many people are now doing." When really, you are doing something that many other people have done. You really just don't get it. "I started something." I laugh again. Perhaps you are unaware of what a large assumption you are making. There are [b]BILLIONS[/b] of people in this world, and you think you are the first of these billions of people to do something. No offense, but you are either really ignorant, or really arrogant. You just need to stop looking at what is right here, and take a look at the BIG picture. You may be the only one within your group of friends, or the only one in your city that dresses like you do or whatever, but there is always going to be someone out there who does the same thing, and probably has done it longer than you. To take a quick quote from Star Wars: Episode 1 ... "There's always a bigger fish." Quite fitting to the converstaion I think, and to think that you are the "biggest fish" is quite egotistical. Out of 2002 years of [i]recorded[/i] history, and the countless people that have lived, you think you are the 'Big Kahuna' of a certain style. :nope: There's a difference between being original and being independent. I'm thinking you are confused between the two. You are trying to hard to be original, and make other people believe you are when you would so much easier fit into being independent. Where you know that you aren't all that original, but you are different from the mass majority. You do things that most would never even think about doing, and when it comes to clothes, if you really want to be more different, it helps to be really secure with your sexuality. Lately, I've been thinking that a long skirt type thing would be fun. Perhaps, by taking a pair of large pants, and taking out the in-seam and sewing that back together just all as one piece. Then perhaps doing a few other things. How many guys would ever think of doing [i]that[/i]? Lol. I think that one Davis guy from Korn did that at one point, and probably still does (I couldn't tell if it was a long skirt of just really baggy pants). It just seems like it would be fun to do. Do I care if someone else has done it? No. Will I still do it if it has been done before? Yes. Anyway, lol, wrist cutter, you'd be suprised at some of the thing I might wear in the summer. You'd think I was preparing to go on a trip to Alaska. It's just as long as I am inside where it isn't neccesarily hot, why should I care if I'm wearing too much for the weather that's outside? And yes, I do wear coats inside. Just because I feel like wearing a coat. I'm a little loopy that way. :whoops:[/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genkai Posted July 31, 2002 Share Posted July 31, 2002 hmm....you have a point, Anna.... But i think your originality normally comes before you satart caring what you wear....so really, it COULD be that your clothes are affecting your state of mind, but there's a good chance it's vice-versa..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vegeta rocker Posted August 1, 2002 Share Posted August 1, 2002 my mom really doesnt mind what i wear, long as i dont get in trouble in school or anything which has happened but sshhhhhhh. I dont really do the dressy thing, and i honestly hate to shop im just too picky for my own good. I think she is too odd though, i really wish she would stop stealing my spikes. I just hate the raggedy trendy look, and my mom nice as she is knows ive always like crappy stuff and when she buys it for me i usually end up wailing, but its in style!!! I can't wear this! I know i have issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted August 1, 2002 Share Posted August 1, 2002 Meh... The benifiet of having uniforms at school: Your parents can't discriminate what you wear. But you have a right to wear what you want, kiddo. Here's the deal. Wear what you wanna wear at school. Just put the 'normal' shirt on top, and take it off when you get to school/out of your parents' viewing range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS Vegeta Posted August 1, 2002 Share Posted August 1, 2002 Ah! I do that all the time. I just got back fromm WWE! Smackdown live and I had an R - V - D T-shirt on, but I felll asleep in it. My mom testifies, so I put it under my Zim shirt ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaiyanPrincessX Posted August 1, 2002 Share Posted August 1, 2002 My parents don't really mind what I wear, but then again they don't disagree with it either. I wear what I want, not what everyone else wears. I've been told I wear way to much blue from a friend at school. And I do, half my DragonBall Z shirts are blue, along with blue pants(not jeans). I told my mom about that and she just said "Who cares, you like blue so you wear what you like.", not that I didn't already know that. As for my brother... My parents(particularly my mom)had trouble with what he wore. She used to pick out his clothes and told him how to do his hair ect... He hated it, I told him to tell her that. She doesn't anymore because she knows hes growing up and has his own style. She doesn't like those huge baggy pants and all black and such, but he doesn't either so she doesn't really mind letting him pick out his own clothes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genkai Posted August 1, 2002 Share Posted August 1, 2002 i dunno about uniforms....that's just trying to stamp out individuality at school, and i think we're all against stamping out individuality, now aren't we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted August 1, 2002 Share Posted August 1, 2002 Note that I said benifiet. Meaning that was the only good thing about uniforms. And yes, uniforms suck...-_- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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