For many of us, the last few years have given us time to reflect on our identities. That means room to explore what silhouettes, colors, and textures feel good, what haircuts work and what you love—and hate—about getting dressed up in the first place.
Amanda: I've been making my own clothes for the past year and a half or so. And it's been really fantastic because one of the things I learned is that the problem with getting clothes to fit correctly is not a problem with my body. The problem is with the way that clothes are sized in stores.…and need to talk about more.For Amanda, a listener in Vermont, taking the time to make her own clothes during these last few years has shown her that her body is not the problem.
We’ve been collecting your stories about personal style for months, and along with these bold victories, we’ve also heard about your fashion frustrations. Listener 5: The most, like, fashion forward thing that I do during the week is like having on some fun socks. Stephen: I just have glimpses of like, um, of a still evolving, personal style of like, what I'd like to think is kind of a cosmopolitan Black middle aged man, right. And I, you know, I still get compliments on the street sometimes and it's usually from things that I've purchased over five years ago.
Anna: When you think about like a, a piece that feels like an exciting, maybe a little bit of a fashion risk, um, right now at this stage of your life, in your early forties, as someone also in their early forties, like, does that look different than something you would've picked for yourself 10, 15, 20 years ago?
Stephen: Really, when I think about clothing, I think about my entire life and the experiences and the people. Like the first memory of clothing is like Garanimals in the early eighties from my mother. And then my dad took me to TJ Maxx in the middle of a hail storm in Savannah, Georgia. And if you've ever been down there, that was not that safe, but he was sick of me being scared. So he said, this is your time to go school shopping.
Coming up… how one artist uses fashion as an extension of his creative process and why even the smallest details speak really loudly. Anna: That's cool. And for any listener out there, who's just thinking like, how do I get out of my ruts? Any kind of like broad advice you have for somebody who's wanting to do the same thing you're doing?
Bill: And I say that because I'm literally buttoning up my shirt all the way to the top button. Um, I'm very much like a bolo tie wearer, um, I think of my origin story as a combination of all of the summer camp horror movies of the eighties and the county fairs that I loved a lot when I was a kid. Bill: I grew up in Monterey County in California. It was a retirement community that was butted up against a lot of farming and ranching.
Anna: Oh, that's interesting. When you think about clothing that you used to wear, that was, that was part of a distraction, like what, what were some things that you would wear that you think of that way? Bill: I think, I think the latter. Like when I've, you know, quote unquote got, gotten it wrong, it's less of a, oh, I thought this would work and it didn't work. And it's more like I'm tired of playing by these rules. What would it look like for me to just do what I want?
He’s been sober for over a decade and doesn’t go to gay bars, so meeting other queer and trans people has meant being open to finding community in unexpected places.Bill: You know, I like hanging out in the allergy section of my CVS, you know. I know there's, I know there's other people that like hate this allergy season.
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