So I'm sitting here, finishing up work on final project for college and thinking about some clothes I'm waiting to come through the mail. Then I realized that my female side tends to be lighter and more colorful (although my "colorful" is still fairly muted). In real life I wear generally dark clothing and jeans and tend to be introverted and fairly plain, but when I dress I tend to wear brighter clothing. I thought this was strange though, as I enjoy my dark clothing normally, but my female side does not. Like there's two people in my head.
Anywho, this led me to thinking about why we choose the clothes we choose and apply makeup the way we do. Some of us tend to go for the over-the-top stuff, some of us go for ****ty/sexy (not necessarily a bad thing), and some of us simply go for what we consider to be the norm.
So I pondered, why do I dress the way I do? Is it because this the contemporary fashion and the approriate dress for my age? Is it because it excites me? Or is it just some deep psychological fixation developed during childhood/adolescence? Or is it simply a combination or something else entirely?
I really couldn't say why I personally choose the clothing and look that I do other than that I just feels and looks right to me. So I pose this question to you all: Why do dress up the way you do?