My fashion sense throughout the years has been...interesting.
There was a year-long period where all I wore was tie-dye t-shirts and SpongeBob t shirts,
accompanied with those nice swishy pants.
It's called fashion, look it up.
In high school, I had a dress code
where I got in trouble for outfits like this one.
However, this was arguably my best-dressed period,
even if it was just out of necessity.
It got to the point where I was overly formal when I didn't even need to be.
So when I got to college
I was thrilled by the freedom I had to wear leggings as pants,
and pretty much whatever the hell else I wanted.
Now I'm working full-time, and I wear a weird mix of things to work.
Usually leggings are still involved though.
But there's something I've been thinking about lately.
Mark Zuckerberg.
Steve Jobs.
These men both have quite a few things in common,
but I'm particularly interested in the fact that
they're both known for wearing the same thing nearly every day of their lives.
But there aren't really any examples of women who wear the same thing
every single day in the same manner.
The only one I could find is this woman:
Renata Briggman, who decided that every day for a year
she would wear the same outfit to her job at a DC real estate office.
If I were to decide on the perfect outfit,
could I really see myself wearing it nearly every day
for the rest of my life?
And what would the perfect outfit even look like?
Unlike Briggman, I'm not just wearing it to work,
but for everything else too,
with the exception of running or exercising.
I guess for me the perfect outfit would be
something that I could wear to work, but stay fairly comfortable in at home.
I pretty much already wear the same thing on my lower half every day,
and that is a pair of black leggings.
As for my upper half,
I've decided that something comfortable yet possibly
formal enough for work would do the trick,
so I went with a white button-up,
of which I bought several.
I've allowed myself to change shoes as needed,
but generally I'll try to wear these ones the most.
And I already got a stain on it. Great.
It made it fucking worse.
Well, since this shirt is obviously out of commission,
I guess I'll go with shirt number two.
I will say, the beauty of this whole same outfit thing
is that since I have multiple versions of the outfit
I can just reach in my closet and take another shirt out since I just screwed up that other one.
Well, fresh new shirt – I think I'm ready to go to work.
Another day, another white shirt.
Unfortunately the stain is still kind of there,
but it's not as noticeable as it was.
So I actually just had to make a trip to the bank
because I only have two of these white shirts,
which means I only have two versions of this outfit, so
I have to do laundry like every two or three days,
which is sort of annoying.
So today is my fourth day of wearing this,
I feel a little bit like a cartoon character.
I don't know.
I felt a little weird today?
I think so far it feels wrong to like be ignoring all these clean clothes in my closet.
The biggest annoyance to me
is the fact that like I'm gonna be having to do laundry
every two or three days.
All right it's time for yet again another laundry day,
and this is only like my sixth day of doing this.
I gotta say, this week so far has involved truly copious use of the Tide pen.
Maybe a white shirt wasn't the best choice, but I feel like I'm handling it.
Well, another day, another detergent wipe.
So...I really don't feel good today.
I kind of wish that I wasn't wearing this.
I just...
feel like shit and I kinda want to look like shit to match.
but I look weirdly fancy and I need to go buy...milk.
So...I'm just gonna do the best I can and
put on...this.
I'm – I'm not even halfway there, and like
the idea of wearing this again for like 20 more days
feels so depressing to me.
I guess I'm still gonna do it, but...
I like, really hate this outfit now.
So today marks officially the halfway point for wearing this.
Yeah, I don't know.
I have been at this work event for like three days straight
My co-workers still really haven't seemed to notice that I'm wearing the same thing every single day.
But today it's about 100 degrees outside
I am not even exaggerating the high is 95 so,
Again, just regretting my white shirt choice.
So I just have one week left of wearing this outfit,
and I'm home from work,
so I'm gonna throw this in laundry and
basically just walk around in a bra for the rest of the night.
Because that has become my routine.
So it's gotten to the point where I am like excited for bed
because it means I can put on these pajamas
and actually wear something other than that fucking shirt, so...
Yeah, only five days left of this outfit and
today is kind of the first day where I felt like...the ease of it?
Because I – for just this – a couple days –
I have access to a washing machine,
which makes life a thousand times easier in this situation.
So today was really like kind of weirdly nice,
like I just realized,
I like went to the dryer, just pulled out a shirt,
knew exactly what I was gonna get.
Really was the first time ever I was like,
"Okay like I guess I see the benefit in that way."
Because I think otherwise so far,
it's just been like an exhausting hassle,
and the laundry aspect I think
has been the worst thing about it.
So maybe in these last couple days it will
turn me around a little bit on the whole thing.
But uh I don't think so.
I'm kind of getting sick of this shit.
[iPhone alarm]
Today's the day,
it's my last day of wearing the same thing for a month
So I'm just gonna put put this thing on one more time.
Great.
Let's get this over with.
All right I think I'm gonna change back.
I'm gonna change into something else,
something other than this outfit. Finally.
Man, this actually feels weird.
Looking down at myself and, you know expecting to see the white shirt black pants combo,
like it actually feels odd that I am not wearing the outfit.
[Sighs] Well, that was a journey.
So like, now that this whole experience is over,
I wrote down a couple of questions at the beginning of the month
to ask myself how I think it went,
and a couple of other opinions that may have changed over the course of a month.
First question that I had for myself was:
Do I think that that I could take it a step further
and wear it every day for a year?
Um...
Fuck no!
Aside from my personal feelings,
I live in a climate where there are all four seasons,
and in the summer it can
reach up to the hundred degree mark.
It's quickly approaching
100 degrees,
and uh,
this is what I'm wearing.
It had to happen eventually.
Some really...really nice looking armpit stains there.
My second question is,
did I ever want to change into something different?
And, yeah I think that was fairly obvious,
there were plenty of times when I just felt like
this outfit was so the last thing that I wanted to be on my body right now.
Do I still like the outfit as much as when I first got it?
I don't think anybody really will ever like the outfit they buy quite so much as the first day that they,
you know, walk out of the store with it and put it on.
I think it still looks nice, but I am disappointed by the general wear of the shirt,
and how many washes took the life out of it, kind of.
But if I didn't have to wash it so much, maybe it would still look a bit better.
I am pretty much at the halfway mark, and I have done this exact load of laundry
I want to say five or six times?
And the shirts are, I feel like, quickly deteriorating.
Do I think that the idea of like an everyday uniform is practical
or is it like depressing?
At times it felt depressing.
It only really felt practical once,
and then most other times it just felt weird or cartoon character-y,
or just...I got really sick of wearing that shirt.
But in general I just eventually started to feel kind of ugly in it,
I don't know,
the shirt's somewhat boxy,
so it's not exactly the most elegant thing.
Adding a couple of different accessories really tended to help things along
in terms of making it feel a little less oppressively boring.
Ultimately, I actually think that wearing the same outfit every day
could be a decent idea.
I don't think it hurts to look somewhat nice each day,
and I for some reason just always think
that you never know what's gonna happen to you
on any given day of your life,
and you might as well look decent.
I mean, I'd find it extremely embarrassing
to have a heart attack
while wearing a shirt that says "Yolo"
or some shit like that.
And maybe that sounds insane,
because it probably is,
but it's something that I think about.
How easy or how convenient it is really depends on a multitude of factors,
but under the right circumstances, I could easily see someone finding this pretty convenient.
But personally, I don't think you'll see me wearing this shirt again
for a very long time.
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