Fashion - I don't get it.

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I agree. I've seen some of the stuff they design on TV and it flabbergasted me.

Nah, I wear a dress that people would wear about 100 years ago, anything that is one piece and comfortable, I don't care what others think, and I really don't care about blending in. the only regret I have is the staring... i hate it when people just stare at me...

I care about my clothes being flattering. I really don't look fashionable or bother with trends myself. All my clothes have to be quite well made and in a good material.

I like to look at pictures of fashion because I see it as a sort of art, but I don't partake myself.

I have been trying to understand fashion for years. I can see that there is an underlying structure to it.. probably a very logical and beautiful one.. but it's VERY complicated and difficult to untangle. I think I'm getting there though. But that doesn't mean I like to dress up. I just try to find clothes that fit okay and are comfortable. T-shirts, jeans, hoodies... that's it, pretty much.
But I know I can understand fashion if I try, I know it.

When I hear a couple of teenage girls conversing along the lines of, "ohmygod that outfit is, like, so cute on you!", sometimes I just want to yell in their faces, "shut the f*** up about your stupid fashion and the stupid makeup you put on your face because you think it makes you look sexier when all you're really doing is hoping guys won't notice your bodily imperfections!". No, I don't care about what the latest trends in clothing are; I wear what I think is comfortable. Usually this means extra-large hoodies with baggy jeans and a belt. I also don't like tight clothing that I can feel pressing against my skin. Since I'm not a girl, I can't tell you why girls spend ridiculous amounts of time face-painting (that's why it's called makeup - so girls can make up how they want to look at a moment's notice). Maybe they want to look intelligent one minute and slu*ty the next (just joking!). As for why you were bullied for not conforming to fashion, it's because you didn't conform to fashion.

As long as I have two black socks, matching but opposite shoes, and something covering the extent of my underwear, I consider myself dressed. Sometimes I even consider my hair and from time to time I remember someone suggested I shave.

That's the height of my fashion sense.
I just make sure I don't wear any garish colors or patterns.

My "Style" is long pants, short sleeve monotone shirt, and then an openfront plaid or casual dress shirt - short sleeve in summer, long sleeve in winter. My winter coat is the only thing I would consider "stylish" and it's prolly 6 years behind the trend, and pitch brown. Looks good on me.

I cannot stand tight-fitting clothes either. And I hate make-up. I once tried lipstick (just for a laugh) and i felt like I had a 5mm deep layer of Vaseline on my lips. I wanted to be sick. I wiped the stuff off pretty fast. I tried foundation and felt like I had a thick layer of sand all over my face. I don't understand make-up.

Today I'm going to a doctor's appointment. BBC Weather London says it will be very warm today so I am going to wear what I typically wear when it is warm: desert army trousers, trainers and a baggy t-shirt. The desert army trousers are very practical as they are designed to be worn in the heat and do not make me sweat. When it is cold I wear the darker, thicker army trousers. I only wear three pairs of trousers in cycles right now and they're all army trousers lol.

I do have a Slipknot hoodie and t-shirt, a Prodigy t-shirt (and have ordered a Prodigy hoodie) and a Chemical Brothers t-shirt, that is about as near fashion as I will go; when I see my band t-shirts/hoodies, it reminds me of their music and that makes me happy. I don't care what other people think of the music I like (and it is amusing to wear the Prodigy t-shirt as it says "Take Me To The Hospital" lol).

No I don't care about fashion, but I guess that's a standard male attitude. The whole concept is based on social posturing. For the industry it is about survival; they have to keep changing the fashions to generate demand.

I'm an NT woman who never got the obsession with fashion and/or what other people are wearing. I do try to figure out what clothing is appropriate to the situation, and dress as comfortably as possible within those parameters.

Clothes do send social signals. For instance, at one engineering company I worked for it was acceptable to wear shorts. A (male) friend of mine reported being pulled aside by a senior manager and told that if he wanted to advance into management he would be wise to stop wearing shorts and "look the part". It was then that I noticed there was one (unwritten) dress code for the engineers and a different one for the managers. It was a problem for me -- since there were so few women engineers around I had trouble figuring out what was the female equivalent of khaki pants and a casual button-down shirt.

I think for NT teenage girls, clothes and makeup and how you look in them serve as the "default topic" the way sports does for boys. You're expected to be able to converse about them. You show which group you belong to by dressing like the other members of the group, and by talking about who looks good and running down those outside the group. It's part of the whole clique mentality of middle and high school. (I remember once in middle school how the group of popular girls all agreed to wear green shirts one day, but not tell one girl who was on the fringe of their circle. Girl-style bullying at its finest!)

Feminist Lipstick is a very interesting history of how feminists of different eras used clothing to define themselves in the course of promoting rights for women.

I had the same probem. If you want to live nromaly, you have to conform to some basic rules of fashion at least. To conform you have to see fashion as an idea instead of a feeling. If you see fashion as an idea, you can agree with it. To see it as an idea, you have to see the underlying forces under fashion: identity, progress, expression.

I have Asperger's syndrome and I love to go shopping and love to wear fashion rings and long necklaces and bracelets and earings. I really love Shoes and Handbags. I dont take that much time to get ready usually and hour or half hour to get ready. I usually pick my outfit the nite before i have something goin on the next day ! !! !

I have the same problem - the only female in a manager position, and I don't know what I'm supposed to wear. The other girls work in admin\marketing and wear very fashiony clothes - tight fitting, knee high leather boots, very high heels, short skirts etc. But I wear black pants and long sleeve tops\shirts, or fitted tshirts with a long sleeve cardigan\coat.

I'm not sure how I'd cope in an office. I cannot wear clothes that I can feel too much on my skin. I can only wear baggy clothes otherwise I get really anxious and I've even had meltdowns in tight clothes before.....help?

Yes, this exactly.

I have no care for fashion at all... I dress to the beat of my own drum.. Mostly utilitarian... I don't like revealing clothing because of the cold and wind is tactile irritating... I don't wear bras because they are the most irritating piece of clothing ever!! ! And do not need them either. I wear high sole boots because they're easy to walk in and get rid of that 'stocky' feeling when I'm walking.
Pretty much all of the way I dress is because of tactile sensitivity.. I cut my hair as well because I cannot stand it getting in my face 1 bit.

As it turns out, the way I dress, is highly ambiguous, because of my tactile sensitivities... It makes me look 'dangerous' and masculine. haha
I suppose that's a good thing when I'm going to a bar in a seedy neighborhood.. As opposed to most other bars around here which are either loud sports bars or hipster bars or just too expensive bars which isn't my thing...

I don't think people should have to conform, and I certainly don't. my favorite shirts are polo shirts with a pair of jeans. I could live my life in them, but they aren't very fashinable. I don't dress up unless it's a wedding or a funeral, and then the dress up is not fashionable in the least. a pair of khakis and a polo shirt. I have never conformed to trends. when all the girls were wearing dresses and the guys these 'cool' print shirts in school, I wore button up collared shirts and jeans. I just don't get the point of fashion and never have. now I have owned tons of shoes in my lifetime that I thought looked cool, but they were usually crocs, loafers, or sandals, and not really trendy, unless you want to count crocs as a trend, but it is more of a fad. I like crocs because I am fat and they are extremely comfortable under my weight.