I haven't been in a corporate environment since I was doing student temp jobs (working from home a lot, brief stint in university admin) so I fortunately don't get that kind of clothes policing. I feel very uncomfortable in business-type clothes (can't wear straight skirts or anything too tight because of sensory issues), and stopped wearing pants altogether when we moved to a part of town where the neighbours weren't policing me. In retrospect they'd already written me off as hopelessly eccentric, so I might as well have dressed for myself, not for them, as I do now!
I don't dress to make a statement about my gender (1), though I'm fortunate to be female so I can wear skirts without comment (if I were a man I'd probably wear a kilt).
(1) I can't think of any situation in which I do something that's not explicitly symbolic in order to make a statement about something else, rather than simply in order to do it.
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Date: 2015-04-03 08:24 am (UTC)I don't dress to make a statement about my gender (1), though I'm fortunate to be female so I can wear skirts without comment (if I were a man I'd probably wear a kilt).
(1) I can't think of any situation in which I do something that's not explicitly symbolic in order to make a statement about something else, rather than simply in order to do it.