At work, I do the usual professional business wear; black pants or skirt, button-up collar shirts. My minor dress rebellion is that I wear my combat boots every day and usually wear more aggressive jewelry than others.
On my own time, my roommate claims my style is a sort of a riot grrl that fell in a rainbow. I usually wear above the knee skirts in either black denim or knit (I have the same skirt in about four different colors from American Apparel because it fits me perfectly - I know they get a lot of flak, but they make me look amazing), and layer designed t-shirts or solid colored tank tops. I love colors though and try to wear many. Especially turquoise, golds, purples, and deep greens. Of course, lots of black too to balance it out. I am obsessed with knee socks and have them in every stripey variation imaginable, and I wear lots of tights too. I wear colorful scarves in my hair almost every day. Shoes are either my combat boots or high top converse. For jewelry, lots of leather collars, chokers, and big, bright beads - I get most of it off etsy or through local stores.
We have a good thrift store selection here, so I shop mainly at used clothing stores that target younger people. Every summer I usually hit up the Big City for its malls, and search through places like delias, forever21, papaya and such for pieces that would suit me because they are usually pretty cheap. For work wear, I usually stick with gap/express/old navy styles because they are pretty classic, but I only buy that stuff used.
I pretty much dress the same year 'round because of the climate here being mild, but for the winter I just put on a hoodie - I have a black one and a purple/pink striped one that I love. My favorite real jacket is a mod white/black leather thing that I’ve had since high school (i.e. too long).
I don’t do fancy often, but I really enjoying dressing up. I have a lot of dresses I never wear for lack of occasion. Most of my formal dresses are rockabilly or vintage-retro style in nature. Also, probably way too much that is goth-inspired (lots of black lace and red velvet - my guilty pleasure, I never wear them out). My two favorite dresses are long (bright blue) and short brocade (red and black) cheong-sams I got at an Asian market in my mom’s town.
I live in a typical liberal college town, semi-rural, with an indie-hipster bent, and I feel like I dress pretty much like most of the townies here. A lot of us get away with dressing like we’re still in college and no one really cares. I never feel out of place or like a weirdo. We have a big hippie/folkpunk scene here, but goths are almost non-existent. We do have one lolita here that I love seeing, her clothes are always so ornate!
I’m not too judgmental about others’ clothing, but I do enjoy seeing other people’s fashion choices. Especially girls that can pull off classic and elegant vintage on an every day basis, or the girls now that are doing the super 80s style. I used to work in the same building as the Fashion department on campus, and it was always fun seeing what the students would wear. Sometimes horrible, horrible things.
My irrational fashion hatreds are: Those weird plastic slip-on shoes, those huge baggy tops parading as dresses that girls seem to think mean they can wear no pants with, and I don’t think skinny jeans look good on anyone over a size 2. I’m also a little puzzled at girls that wear those skin-hugging running tights as regular pants. It just seems sort of indecent (which means I’m getting old, I guess). I also hate flip flops with anything other than casual summer clothes - a lot of the college students here will be dressed really nice except for their friggen’ flip flops. Drives me nuts.
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