I'd like to read the same article from a guy...
Why I Wear The Same Thing Every Day, And What I Wear
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#202This article was actually really confusing. It reminded me of people who spend their time coming up with the "perfect productivity system", a quest which ends up ironically consuming all their time and preventing them from actually getting any real work done. I largely wear the same thing every day too -- I have 5 pairs of jeans, a single pair of shoes, and a bunch of polo shorts that I bought on sale once. Regardles…
I think it comes from a background of having to decide what to wear to make a statement, something that men don't usually have to do on a daily basis, but is common for a lot of women, especially women in some form of design industry. I guess changing the training of years can be a major mental shift - good luck to her, and it can be thinned out even more as time goes on.
I second that!
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#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you checked to see what treating your water would cost? Chemical water softeners are relatively cheap. This one[1] costs roughly $0.30 per load of laundry. If it doubled the wash lifetime of your shirts you're throwing away a ton of money by not doing it. [1] http://www.walmart.com/ip/Calgon-Water-Softener-1-qt/1342460...
I've tried it. It's a combination of hard water causing greying and the fact that the hems on the t-shirts (usually the collars) end up curling after 7 or 8 washes. It's not a 100% gain, maybe 20-50% for substantial additional hassle. T-shirts cost me ~$400/year presently. I live on a 4th floor walkup, my washer is on my second floor (yet another floor up), chemical water softeners are heavy, and shirts simply don't…
Why not buy white tshirts instead?
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Have you thought about using one of those fabric softeners designes specifically for black clothing? My t-shirts last about 3 years. Business-presentable up to a year or so ... that's hundreds of washes considering I cycle through most of my t-shirt stack every 1.5 weeks. After 5 years they're only good enough for the gym, on account of the fabric becoming weird. The colour is still mostly fine. Also, I think you're…
T shirt... Business presentable...? You live in a world that is quite distant from mine and anyone I know.
If it's from Armani
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#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
The plural of anecdote is not data but... I've changed my sex. I used to be male, now I'm female. My wardrobe used to be "a collection of t-shirts and 4-5 pairs of jeans". Now it's a whole closet full of blouses, dresses, and skirts, plus a dresser with a few more things. I recently did a purge and got the stuff down in my closet to 100 individual pieces.
Very interesting. Why do you think your wardrobe grew so much after you switched to female? Do you think that you grew your wardrobe to better fit the image of a female in the eyes of others, or was it a natural impulse that came from within? Edit: Probably the root of my question would be does a transexual person like yourself truly feel female? And if you do does the feeling of being female precede or follow the sw…
Trans 101: Imagine one morning you wake up and you're a woman - but you're still thinking like a man. Everything about your body feels wrong, everything about how you're expected to behave feels wrong. That's it in a nutshell.
Part of the reason my wardrobe grew is that I actually like my body now and want to show it off. Part of it's that women are expected to put more effort into how their clothes coordinate, and generally allowed to dress more flamboyantly.
(There are also lots of nerdy transwomen out there who keep on dressing Geek Casual after the transition. I am not one of them.)
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Well, for example she states that she came up with this system to not lose time getting dressed in the morning. Writing that blog post in itself probably took more than a few hours — to write, review, edit, do the graphics for it, etc. If the initial goal was to spend time not thinking about clothes, that doesn't really feel like an optimal way to reach it.
the blogosphere is full of posts by people who spend the time and trouble to solve a problem once and for all, and then share how they did it. it's sad that the comments here are so patronising.
Tell me about it. :(