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well, i am explicit about it in 3-d: i do not like shopping and am not occupied particularly by engineering my look via clothing.
i know folk who are the opposite, and see them as busy shoppers, people who like to work at shopping for whatever reason--and compared to them, i am a slug.
i could wear suits all the time if i wanted to--but that would require looking for them--and that i'm not inclined to devote the time and energy to doing.
i suspect that alot of this comes from my extended past as a guy weighing 500 lbs, during which there was not a whole lot of point in going shopping at most stores because there was little chance of finding anything that'd fit. and i found "big man" stores to be abysmal places, full of clothing that seemed designed around the idea "if you weigh this much, it doesnt matter how you look"--but that might be a consequence of my simply not liking the stores i could find.
at this point, i could change my attitude, but i kinda like not shopping, not taking it seriously, not looking for a new version of myself or to version myself via accessorizing.
tho a little chanel number never hurt anyone.
so yes: i am a lazy consumer of clothing---but there's nothing perjorative about it. in fact, i affirm non-activity with respect to retail clothing outlets as a positive thing.
but i have no problem with folk who enjoy clothes and find that they are sometimes like interesting trees in the garden of my visual field.
so those folk devote attention to shopping--i'd rather devote the time to sitting around in a coffeehouse doing other things.
besides, i get snippy in retail stores.
so i figure reducing my exposure, and that of others to me, is a win-win situation.
being lazy is a public service.
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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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