No Stupid Questions

Hell, I BARELY dress for myself, let alone others.

The two deciding factors are "Does this protect me from public indecency laws" and "Am I warm/cool enough in this". Anything goes so long as it meets this criteria.

Both. I like look good in clothes that fit, but I wear what I like, and always have. As a kid, my mother would pick out clothes in the morning, and I'd come down in totally different clothing. I like fashion. I am not gay. And I also like to appear well dressed. And also, 95% of my tshirts are geeky graphic tees, like my Andorian Mining Consortium (Runs from Nobody) shirt.

But it's not like I'm walking around in suits, ever. I just like jeans and shirts that fit, and I hate mundane white bread and mayo fashion, or lack there of.

I dress for myself unless I want to try to exploit something, then I'll dress to fit in because a lot of normies are stupid and actually think different types of clothing means something.

Comfort is a deciding factor on how I dress. Within that, I try to pull off looks that don't look like ass, which I seem to pull off.

I dress for the weather.

I have multiple times been passively insulted by fashionistas who said 'you treat clothing like it's functional only'.

no shit I do. And I'm proud of it. fuck fashion and it's classist bullshit.

I am kinda required to wear safety clothes

I've learned, through the years, what's comfortable for me and still produces an image that others find pleasing. That image is still very comfortable looking, mind you. I've been told that when I'm out I look like "Merlin on vacation..."

Noone would ever confuse me for someone who dresses for others. Lol

I don't know the difference. I pretty much live in business casual, but on the weekends I will wear a graphic tee instead of a white undershirt. Maybe I leave my button down shirt open. It's what I would choose to wear in any instance I leave the house. I'm comfortable in my clothes.

Myself. I stopped following our work dress code after Covid and nobody has complained. Flannel and jeans and a hat == office casual now.

when I dress for myself it's usually in funky, slightly silly clothing

when I dress for others it's as low-effort business casual for a zoom meeting square as possible

Looking at myself gives me the thoughts of despair so I dress to make people not look at me

I'd be naked if I could tbh

At home for myself, at work for others.

I dress so society does not put me into jail for indecency. We are not the same.

Why would I even dress if it wasn't for others?

Work doesn't count, that shit is mandated and the new boss likes to fire for it.

Everywhere else? For myself as much as society allows it. If I'm going somewhere where my friends/party could face consequences for my outfit, then I dress to fit in. If I'm going to the grocery store or any other errand? I'm wearing whatever the hell is the most comfortable. I'm not drawing lustful gazes when covered in motorcycle gear anyway.

Fuck others, I need to be comfortable.

Am Neurodivergent.

Myself. Because if I actually was dressing for others I would be taking a lot more objection to looking like a fashionably challenged (albeit very comfortable) hobo at all times, but I dont care about it

i would dress for myself but my cat will get hair over my outfit so the only time I can really dress is when I'm out of the house

we are a social species I don't know what the difference is

I wouldn't know what anyone else wants me to wear.

I dress for the weather and what I'm going to be doing.

I dress for the weather.

If I wasn't dressing for others I'd be naked like 90% of the time.

Function over form every day all day. Fuck others.
I've been a jeans and T-shirt guy for well over 30 years at this point.

The only reason I put pants on is because it's be arrested otherwise.

That being said, comfortable has priority over good looking and I don't think I've ever had a compliment on how I dress since grandma saw me in a suit when I graduated 20 something years ago.

If I'm going out, I change from cosy indoor clothing to tidier clothing so that I don't look like I'm wandering around in public in my pyjamas, so I guess I'm fitting to a societal expectation, and thus dressing for other people in that regard.

That said, I wouldn't want to sully my indoor clothing with the outdoors anyway, and I don't like going out as a rule, so I think I prefer to be dressed for myself.

both my wife and I dress for ourselves. She used to do more for others but my lazyness has worn off on her. She effected me a bit to as she used a lot of cheap fashion and now I wear the pants equivalent of tshirts if im not wearing shorts and tshirt.

I dress for my wife.

Strangers aren’t gonna fuck me for looking nice.

For others. If I'm staying home, I dress like I'm homeless in whatever grungy dirty things that already need washing. If I'm going out, my hair is combed, my threads are fresh and I'm not getting denied entrance to the restaurant. The movie Blast from the Past was pretty stupid, but it did teach me (remind me?) that you dress nice as a courtesy to your friends.

I 100% dress for others, I don't really care about clothing, and I hate to buy new clothes. I only do it because I think I may be nearing some limit of what is considered decent to wear in the presence of other people, who 100% always are better dressed than me.

The other day I was at the supermarket, and had seen they had a special offer on "plaice" I think it's called.
Well the special offer was sold out, and I asked an employee if they had anymore.
The employee was extremely nice, and asked how many I had planned to buy? And I said 2, then he took 2 bags that had 50% more content, and wrote the price of the special offer on them, and said I should just mention his name at the register.
I though Wow that stellar service, and it was only when I came home I realized I had some of my worst pants on that are so warn they had holes in them.
I have newer pants, but I don't like them, because they have no sway and they are some sort of stretch material to be tight, and I absolutely hate that. And I also hate shopping for clothes.

Anyways because my clothes are (to put it mildly) sub par for normal people, I figured he probably thought I was some sort of destitute.

I am married, and our economy is absolutely fine, we own an almost paid out house, and we have a car that was bought cash without borrowing, and we have a good amount of money in the bank.

Anyways I don't care, maybe because I don't have to. I just want clothes that are comfortable.

I have more important things to worry about than clothes. Nobody cares what I wear, and frankly neither do I.

For habits and tradition.

I wanted to say that I don't dress for anyone because I mostly lie naked in bed because pulling trousers up is too hard for me.

But then I realised when I have to get up I put on a bathrobe so that my kids don't have to see me naked.

So, I do dress for others.

Myself, always. I'm one of those people who wears normal clothes just numbing around the house, rather than just underwear or pajamas or something. My fiance is practically a nudist and I'll be sitting there in the couch with her on jeans and a tee shirt lol

50/50, maybe?

I like my ideal world where no one expects anything from anyone when it comes to clothes and appearance, but I also like to figure out my (very extra) outfit of the day from time to time

I mean, doesn't everyone sort-of dress for others?

I mean, that's why its illegal to go outside unclothed.

For me, its mostly just to fit in, meet the legal and social requirements of being in public, and, well... for winter... since humans have no fur. So a bit of both, but as long as I meet minimum requirements its fine.

Comfort > Looks

I mean, I'm not a high ranking politician, who care how good I look.

For both. I wear cheap business casual to work to present a particular image: appear like I have my shit together (I don’t) but I’m also budget conscious. I wear the same outfit every day (for me) because I hate making fashion decisions and crave simplicity. I have five of the same shirt and five of the same pant. Weekends I have a different uniform that says “fit, economical, comfortable, safe.” Two of the same pant and shirt.