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guiltyonsundays · 20 days ago

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Boring personal waffle perhaps BUT something I love about fashion and music is that both can have such a huge impact on how you feel and see yourself. When I dress a certain way and listen to a certain type of music, it makes me feel like a certain type of person. That impacts how I move and speak and hold myself, which in turn impacts how other people perceive me. Both fashion and music can be tools for reinvention in that sense - or tools for broadcasting your interests and values. I can try out different personas this way, figure out which ones feel comfortable, which ones give me a confidence boost, which ones help me to move in the world in a way that feels authentic to me. In that sense it makes total sense to me that subcultures in fashion and music have always been tightly interlinked.

#it’s so interesting to me like I’ve explored a lot of different musical genres and fashion subcultures / aesthetics #but there are recurring themes across medium and genre in terms of what I seem to gravitate towards #eg despite living on the coast my entire life I’ve never been a particularly beachy gworl #and at various points I’ve experimented with more boho beachy fashion and surf rock / psychedelic rock type music #but neither of them have ever really stuck or felt like ‘me’#instead I’m consistently drawn to a mixture of ‘alt’/punk and academic/preppy fashion #which in turn reflects my academic career and interest in punk and post punk music #and you don’t need to dress any particular way to be intelligent or be in academia or enjoy punk music or hold anti establishment values #but for me personally there’s a sort of mutually reinforcing synergy between all of these things #also let’s not even get into how all of this affects gender presentation and identity 👀#idk how to explain it but listening to feral punk music and dressing like a teenage dirtbag feels very gender to me #like I don’t want to be a man but maybe I want to be a mad lad. a bit of a larrikin.#like why does it suddenly make me feel okay about having facial and body hair…..

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