Question of the Day

[hummingwolf]

Sometimes it's easy to forget that plainclothes detectives are wearing a disguise.

Some of you are very good at fading into the background. (Others are not.) If you dressed up as yourself today, how different would that be from the costume you're wearing now?

Comments

[missprune.livejournal.com]

Interesting question! I think i stopped maturing about forty years ago, so my "costume as me" would be my pleated gray skirt, white shirt, navy blue blazer, knee socks, and dark blue loafers from an old school uniform. Quite different from what I wear to disguise myself as a grown-up, hah!

[cantinera.livejournal.com]

I adore my knee-high Docs. I am so upset they finally broke.

So that, black skirt (almost to knees), tights, pigtails, lots of black eyeliner and random top. Most likely.

I don't know. I'm random about clothing since I love it.

Or is this not what you mean?

[pnksaph.livejournal.com]

If I dressed up as myself (the person I really am) I'd be wearing pretty shoes, lots of jewelry, slinky black pants and a bright pink shirt. Instead, more than likely, I'll be disguised in my jeans and a t-shirt.
My shoes will be big 'ole ugly things, that I can fit my inserts into, because I'm still recuperating from abusing my knees playing tennis two weeks ago.

[pnksaph.livejournal.com]

How would you, O Lovely Hummingwolf, dress us as yourself?

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I'd look just the same.

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

hmmmm. the i who is what-i-am would look just like this. the idealized me in my imagination would look younger, thinner, and much more fashionable. she wants to go to hollywood for a screen test. *g*

Not too far off

[kraftykity.livejournal.com]

Today, I happen to be dressed more like myself than most days.

I'm wearing a big black skirt that feels like suede, but it isn't, a warm comfy sweater also black, a fuzzy green scarf tied in a knot in the front, and a pair of black construction boots with stripey socks. I'm not going into the details of my underpinnings here :P. About the only things I'd change would be having a nice black head scarf on, and if inside, being barefooted. That's about it.

[kenhighcountry.livejournal.com]

I'm in a typical Seattle costume today - jeans, t-shirt, and a flannel shirt over it. If I dressed as me, I would be wearing a tux.

[hai-kah-uhk.livejournal.com]

I am jeans, solid-color tee shirt, and knit sweater. Which is what I'm wearing right now! In fact that's pretty much all that's in my closet - only a couple of dresses and odd items for rarely-used disguises. I leave the apron at work with the happy-to-serve-you persona.

[darth-spacey.livejournal.com]

What a remarkably remarkable question!

Today, as it turns out, I am dressed more as myself than I usually am, for today I am wearing a logoed T.

Usually at work, I stick to flat colored Ts, since while the dress code here is lax, I don't want to form any kind of Plimsoll line. Today, due to a number of factors, I ended up wearing a slightly less drab t-shirt, one that I am actually quite fond of.

I guess how I'd ultimately dress to reflect my personality would probably be the stuff I would wear in the second half of my teens, as that's clearly the time I felt I was most "myself". Almost no controlling authority, and almost no fear of the laws of man, God or nature. I was pretty much beholden to nobody and nothing in that period. Think somewhere between a Hippie outfit and a Grunge outfit: a variety of colors of jeans, fatigues, and psychedelically patterned baggy pants, a t-shirt of dubious condition and often political outspokenness, and I was rarely seen without a heavyweight lumberjack shirt, and always with hair so long I could sit on it and a longish goatee. It would have been hard to find a photo of me without a hand-rolled cigarette and a tinny.

[mariness.livejournal.com]

:: looks at work clothes, sighs ::

I'd be wearing jeans.