Uncool, dorky things you won't be caught dead in

[Edward]

There are people who look good in just about anything. And then there are the rest of us.

I think it's interesting too how our own choices shape others' expectations of us (outside of an environment where a uniform or a strict dress code applies). Not so many years ago, the late Pat Smear (of LA punk bank The Germs, and later a member of the final incarnation of Nirvana) would appear in the music press often in something other than the torn denims and whatever he might have worn on stage. This could be anything from a very well cut pinstripe suit to a dress. He always looked fabulous. Around the same time, Eddie Vedder, bless him, did a shoot in a suit, and he was widely laughed at because he looked out of place in it, and nobody had seen him in anything other than jeans and a t-shirt before. Partly exterior perception born of the image he had created for himself, and partly, I suspect, he didn't project 'owning' it as it was more like 'fancy dress' than clothes to him.