Plain dressing(clothes, not salad!)

[Gracey]

I don't like clothing with the firms logo or brand name in big letters all over the front of the garment. If I'm to advertise their product, they should be paying me to do it, not me paying them!!! After all, they pay celebrities and sportspeople thousands to do it, why shouldn't they pay me too?

Couldn’t agree more.
In the UK it is a five pence charge to buy a single use carrier bag (if I forget my reusables)
The company logo is all over this carrier bag. I’m walking in public advertising this company and paying to do so.
Same with car dealership advertising on registration plates. (Number plates/ license plates)

Driving around in a vehicle advertising the car dealership for free? Really?

 

[Progster]

Couldn’t agree more.
In the UK it is a five pence charge to buy a single use carrier bag (if I forget my reusables)
The company logo is all over this carrier bag. I’m walking in public advertising this company and paying to do so.
Same with car dealership advertising on registration plates. (Number plates/ license plates)

Driving around in a vehicle advertising the car dealership for free? Really?

I agree. I have my own bags, which don't have a company logo on them, they were given out free by the local council to encourage people to recycle. Other examples:

Paying for cable TV, but still seeing commercials.
Paying for newspapers and magazines (and the magazines are often expensive) an still seeing adverts in them.

 

[WereBear]

I love yoga pants! Soft, loose, flowing fabrics are my favorite.

I dislike patterns but it seems inevitable in sleepwear. I like color lots and lots, especially my favorite purple, teal, pink and coral pink, LAVENDER, jade green and my neutral is charcoal grey, but I will settle for black.

One of my ambitions is to have enough money to buy an actual wardrobe, instead of a collection of stuff-that-was-on-sale. I will buy a soft shirt in a color I don't care for and pair it with neutral pants, but it would be nice to have more style in my casual business stuff.

Loathe dresses and skirts. Never understood how it is supposed to be so comfortable when most of the time it's sheer so it needs a slip, it demands panty hose in many settings, it can blow upwards and embarrass me, or it is figure-hugging and restricts my movements. All this fabric billowing up around my legs and draping funny and bunching when I sit and weird wrinkles when I stand up. Leave me alone, stupid women's fashion.

I found a lot of help with the What Season are You? series of books. Here is their website.

 

[WereBear]

Also, linen is supposed to wrinkle.

It's like seersucker, which is controlled, deliberate, wrinkling. That way less of the fabric touches our body and traps heat.

 

[Mary Anne]

I am sorta apatheistic/atheist/agnostic-ish with Quaker leanings but this is really about neither. It's about women's clothing, practical-ness, comfort, and culture. The last few days I have spent a bit of time blocking pins promoted by women's clothing companies that pop up on Pinterest. It seems unhealthy for me to keep seeing what big clothing manufacturers want me to see. The clothes are always "sexy", the models mostly blond, tall, thin, and high-waisted, and seem to promote excessive consumerism. Nothing that represents this tiny, short and short-waisted woman who likes to be comfortable. Anyhoo, it has prompted another splurge of interest in Quakers and plain dress and I thought there might be a few others on here interested in plain dress for similar reasons since ASD tends to involve sensory and social issues that affect what we wear and how we shop. Does some form of "plain" interest anyone else? Why? How do you practice "plain" dressing if you are "plain"? Particularly if it is for non-religious reasons. Interested in answers from both men and women and anybody else.

I love plain, loose 100% cotton clothing. Jeans and t-shirt. I also love the simple traditional Japanese clothing which are made with straight lines and no gathers, darts, or shapes. If I had time, I would make my own clothes. Too many clothes today have polyester, or spandex or other strange synthetics in the fabric which I cannot endure. I also like rayon, but I only buy vintage rayon shirts. Unless it’s high quality (usually expensive), clothing sold nowadays is thin and of poor quality, made to last only a season or two. Vintage clothing is high quality, affordable, and made to last. For me, “vintage” means 1970s or earlier! I do buy 1980s and 90s vi
Vintage rayon or cotton Hawaiian shirts though on eBay. Loose, cool, awesomely rich colors and patterns, and natural fiber -Rayon is made from tree wood and is so cool on a hot day, feels like silk, and prints and dyes up like no other fabric).

 

[Mary Anne]

Also, linen is supposed to wrinkle.

It's like seersucker, which is controlled, deliberate, wrinkling. That way less of the fabric touches our body and traps heat.

I cannot stand the touch of seersucker on my skin! It triggers severe sensory issues, even though it’s natural Cotton.

 

[Judge]

Interesting comments about seersucker. While the texture is noticeable, it's still relatively soft to me. Especially nice in hot weather. But I haven't had any such shirts in decades. Clearly I can handle organic fabrics better than synthetic ones. Love cotton...

 

[kay]

I love plain, loose 100% cotton clothing. Jeans and t-shirt. I also love the simple traditional Japanese clothing which are made with straight lines and no gathers, darts, or shapes. If I had time, I would make my own clothes. Too many clothes today have polyester, or spandex or other strange synthetics in the fabric which I cannot endure. I also like rayon, but I only buy vintage rayon shirts. Unless it’s high quality (usually expensive), clothing sold nowadays is thin and of poor quality, made to last only a season or two. Vintage clothing is high quality, affordable, and made to last. For me, “vintage” means 1970s or earlier! I do buy 1980s and 90s vi
Vintage rayon or cotton Hawaiian shirts though on eBay. Loose, cool, awesomely rich colors and patterns, and natural fiber -Rayon is made from tree wood and is so cool on a hot day, feels like silk, and prints and dyes up like no other fabric).

I have had one rayon shirt and it was extremely comfortable, unfortunately in my size it's hard to find a Hawaiian shirt which in my mind is "plain" because it's a staple, a classic. Not a fashionable thing exactly except to the people who love them, certainly not a fad or trendy thing. And the rayon ones are soft.

 

[kay]

I love plain, loose 100% cotton clothing. Jeans and t-shirt. I also love the simple traditional Japanese clothing which are made with straight lines and no gathers, darts, or shapes. If I had time, I would make my own clothes. Too many clothes today have polyester, or spandex or other strange synthetics in the fabric which I cannot endure. I also like rayon, but I only buy vintage rayon shirts. Unless it’s high quality (usually expensive), clothing sold nowadays is thin and of poor quality, made to last only a season or two. Vintage clothing is high quality, affordable, and made to last. For me, “vintage” means 1970s or earlier! I do buy 1980s and 90s vi
Vintage rayon or cotton Hawaiian shirts though on eBay. Loose, cool, awesomely rich colors and patterns, and natural fiber -Rayon is made from tree wood and is so cool on a hot day, feels like silk, and prints and dyes up like no other fabric).

I love yoga pants! Soft, loose, flowing fabrics are my favorite.

I dislike patterns but it seems inevitable in sleepwear. I like color lots and lots, especially my favorite purple, teal, pink and coral pink, LAVENDER, jade green and my neutral is charcoal grey, but I will settle for black.

One of my ambitions is to have enough money to buy an actual wardrobe, instead of a collection of stuff-that-was-on-sale. I will buy a soft shirt in a color I don't care for and pair it with neutral pants, but it would be nice to have more style in my casual business stuff.

Loathe dresses and skirts. Never understood how it is supposed to be so comfortable when most of the time it's sheer so it needs a slip, it demands panty hose in many settings, it can blow upwards and embarrass me, or it is figure-hugging and restricts my movements. All this fabric billowing up around my legs and draping funny and bunching when I sit and weird wrinkles when I stand up. Leave me alone, stupid women's fashion.

I found a lot of help with the What Season are You? series of books. Here is their website.

I wear long swirly skirts for dress up. Soft, full, no slip needed, and I wear socks with skirts, have forever. Panty hose are awful. Of course if you live in a high wind area there will be problems even with a long skirt. A split skirt (actually they are just very full cut pants that look like skirts) though would solve the going over the head problem.

My skirt wearing habit is where I guess I end my interest in plain. Friday night Artwalk and I like to dress up a bit. My idea of dress-up, but still I love my swirly skirts and argyle socks.

 

[kay]

What about belts, suspenders(aka braces), and drawstrings? A lot of people looking for plain seem to go for suspenders rather than belts but I think a drawstring might be the simplest way to go. Any advantages to one over the other? Something built in would at least always be there where a belt or suspenders get misplaced from time to time.

And shirt collars? Why are they there and is life better without? I have head complaints from an NT man saying that collars tend to bother him until the shirt is pretty much threadbare.

 

[Streetwise]

I agree. I have my own bags, which don't have a company logo on them, they were given out free by the local council to encourage people to recycle. Other examples:

Paying for cable TV, but still seeing commercials.
Paying for newspapers and magazines (and the magazines are often expensive) an still seeing adverts in them.

The BBC website having adverts! when you have to pay a licence !if only I could swear!

 

[Chance]

I'm a plain dresser white, black, tan, gray, dk blue, dk, green...
A ball cap and a loose hoodie if it's cold out.
Mr Boring as far as clothes go...

I have 3 pairs of Levi 501s for when I have to wear pants... grrr
I have a couple of business suits, but try very hard to not find a reason to wear them... More Grrr!
Otherwise it's just shorts, and a polo, or tee shirt...

I do love my Red leaf Canada Tee shirt that says "HOME." Its getting really worn out : (
Yet I am stuck in redneck hell in Texas...

I do like funny tee shirts (light hearted, nothing to make people gritchy)... The other day I was in line at the store, and this lady behind me laughed and said my tee shirt made her rotten day much better. Sometimes it's hit and miss.

 

[WereBear]

I know some people love skirts, and that’s fine. My guy sometimes wears a kilt

 

[kay]

I know some people love skirts, and that’s fine. My guy sometimes wears a kilt

Mine won't wear a kilt and I just can't figure out why.

 

[kay]

I'm a plain dresser white, black, tan, gray, dk blue, dk, green...
A ball cap and a loose hoodie if it's cold out.
Mr Boring as far as clothes go...

I have 3 pairs of Levi 501s for when I have to wear pants... grrr
I have a couple of business suits, but try very hard to not find a reason to wear them... More Grrr!
Otherwise it's just shorts, and a polo, or tee shirt...

I do love my Red leaf Canada Tee shirt that says "HOME." Its getting really worn out : (
Yet I am stuck in redneck hell in Texas...

I do like funny tee shirts (light hearted, nothing to make people gritchy)... The other day I was in line at the store, and this lady behind me laughed and said my tee shirt made her rotten day much better. Sometimes it's hit and miss.

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That is a great shirt.

I was camping recently in the Texas panhandle. Gorgeous place but I doubt I'd fit in trying to live around there. I doubt though that the culture is too much different from here though we do have lower speed limits. Pretty solid Redneck here, too. Except my neighborhood. It's odd that way.

 

[Chance]

I know some people love skirts, and that’s fine. My guy sometimes wears a kilt

I was walking behind this really tall guy Like 6'7" in Taos, NM who was wearing a kilt... I'm not really tall 5'7ish... All was cool, until he bent over to pick up a piece of trash... I can't seem to get that image out of my head... It was just a kilt, nothing else, and it was WAY too short for his height... : )

 

[Mary Anne]

Interesting comments about seersucker. While the texture is noticeable, it's still relatively soft to me. Especially nice in hot weather. But I haven't had any such shirts in decades. Clearly I can handle organic fabrics better than synthetic ones. Love cotton...

Seersucker was big in the 60s and 70s. The bumps were way too “scratchy” for me. Just can’t stand it! I also cannot stand wearing bras (and don’t). Especially in warm weather. I hide in baggy clothing.

Warm for me is 75 degrees and up. Unfortunately it can be in the nineties or more for a few months. I am so miserable and try to avoid going outdoors. People just do not understand my misery at 80 degrees, and potential for heat stroke. Weird huh?

 

[Chance]

Seersucker was big in the 60s and 70s. The bumps were way too “scratchy for me. Just can’t stand it! I also cannot stand wearing bras(and don’t). Especially in warm weather. I hide in baggy clothing.

Warm for me is 75 degrees and up. Unfortunately it can be in the nineties or more for a few months. I am so miserable and try to avoid going outdoors. People just do not understand my misery at 80 degrees, and potential for heat stroke. Weird huh?

I get really hot very easy and start feeling sort of sick... I live in a place way too hot for me, and I'm working on changing that because it just seems worse every year... Extreme cold with harsh winds isn't so great but I can handle cold much better than heat it seems. I like 66-70 and overcast... with about 50%^ humidity... Hot and dry is not for me and much of my life is outdoors (mostly by choice).

 

[kay]

I get really hot very easy and start feeling sort of sick... I live in a place way too hot for me, and I'm working on changing that because it just seems worse every year... Extreme cold with harsh winds isn't so great but I can handle cold much better than heat it seems. I like 66-70 and overcast... with about 50%^ humidity... Hot and dry is not for me and much of my life is outdoors (mostly by choice).

I like 55 to 70 and 30% humidity will do me ok, I kinda prefer something dryer than here, though I'd also go with constant drizzle. But the overcast part, oh yes, no headaches! I spent the first week of my trip with headache from too much sun. Second week was less sun and a much happier head.
Is the wind always that bad out there? The way it was right before Easter? We hiked Black Mesa in Oklahoma and I had my glasses blown off my head. Second time on the trip.

 

[Bolletje]

I prefer wearing jeans, a fitted t-shirt and my combat boots every day. I like dressing up sometimes, but jeans and a shirt are just most comfy.