designerleather
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What is style? What is personality? Can you really change one without the other?
I discount any discussion of work clothes. Those have some personal elements of style, but for the most part, work attire is a predication of the industry. A dark suit in a business environment can be as much as a requirement as khakis and a logo polo shirt and hat at a McDonalds. They are uniforms nonetheless. In some industries we have more flexibility to personally tweak these images to be more expressive of our own tastes, but corporate culture in and off itself generally dictates an acceptable image.
What I consider a change or style as posed in the question would be more globally sweeping, such as being a prep and then having to dye your hair purple and green, get a ton of piecing and dress completely goth. That is an extreme, but the distinction between jeans and t-shirt on the weekend and suits at work again I see as expression as work uniform and home clothes.
My style, as well as personality can be a bit of a chameleon. I enjoy opera and classical music and own several very nice tuxedos. I have been in the corporate environment and always expressed my style through touches with extremely nice ties and shirts, but kept the suits toned down and classical. A fair amount of my wardrobe are jeans and t-shirts and again can span from $50 levis to far more expensive 7FAM jeans.
As my name implies, I also have a lot of leather. I ride, have raced, and am comfortable at get togethers of the sport bike crowd as well as hanging out with the rough and tumble Harley riders, though all my bikes are Jap bikes (Power cruiser, sport bike and race bike) I have a ton of dressier leather as well and also think of nothing of throwing on a pair of Gucci leather pants, Abboud silk t-shirt and hanging out at Borders flipping through magazines or walking through the city.
And as well, have also had friends and acquaintances in the goth and fetish scenes, man I have seen some real out there things, but that is by far a bit past the limit of my comfort level. A nice place to visit for a diversion down that path for an evening, but I could not hang out in Harvard Square during the day so attired.
To the point. I can be an omnivore... In the same week I have gone to the Opera and an AC/DC concert, I love to learn, express and explore. My range of fashion as such does similarly cover a fair amount of ground, but at the core always does remain true to my personality.
I have always seen clothing as a means of expression and an extension. It does not always have to be so at all moments, but in the long run, it generally does. One can refine these tastes, which I believe is also different than the original intent.
I do not make a distinction of one trading labels and getting better clothes as necessarily a change in style, but really a refinement of taste, but in the end, if it is uncomfortable or not true to the nature of the person, it cannot last in the long term.
I discount any discussion of work clothes. Those have some personal elements of style, but for the most part, work attire is a predication of the industry. A dark suit in a business environment can be as much as a requirement as khakis and a logo polo shirt and hat at a McDonalds. They are uniforms nonetheless. In some industries we have more flexibility to personally tweak these images to be more expressive of our own tastes, but corporate culture in and off itself generally dictates an acceptable image.
What I consider a change or style as posed in the question would be more globally sweeping, such as being a prep and then having to dye your hair purple and green, get a ton of piecing and dress completely goth. That is an extreme, but the distinction between jeans and t-shirt on the weekend and suits at work again I see as expression as work uniform and home clothes.
My style, as well as personality can be a bit of a chameleon. I enjoy opera and classical music and own several very nice tuxedos. I have been in the corporate environment and always expressed my style through touches with extremely nice ties and shirts, but kept the suits toned down and classical. A fair amount of my wardrobe are jeans and t-shirts and again can span from $50 levis to far more expensive 7FAM jeans.
As my name implies, I also have a lot of leather. I ride, have raced, and am comfortable at get togethers of the sport bike crowd as well as hanging out with the rough and tumble Harley riders, though all my bikes are Jap bikes (Power cruiser, sport bike and race bike) I have a ton of dressier leather as well and also think of nothing of throwing on a pair of Gucci leather pants, Abboud silk t-shirt and hanging out at Borders flipping through magazines or walking through the city.
And as well, have also had friends and acquaintances in the goth and fetish scenes, man I have seen some real out there things, but that is by far a bit past the limit of my comfort level. A nice place to visit for a diversion down that path for an evening, but I could not hang out in Harvard Square during the day so attired.
To the point. I can be an omnivore... In the same week I have gone to the Opera and an AC/DC concert, I love to learn, express and explore. My range of fashion as such does similarly cover a fair amount of ground, but at the core always does remain true to my personality.
I have always seen clothing as a means of expression and an extension. It does not always have to be so at all moments, but in the long run, it generally does. One can refine these tastes, which I believe is also different than the original intent.
I do not make a distinction of one trading labels and getting better clothes as necessarily a change in style, but really a refinement of taste, but in the end, if it is uncomfortable or not true to the nature of the person, it cannot last in the long term.