Do you wear a uniform?

And today’s topic shall be all about the wonderful world of fetishes. Oh no hang on that’s a different blog that I write. So what the heck am I really talking about then?

Ok to put it simply we all wear a uniform that identifies us in some way. Whether it is the dour businessman commuting to work on the train in dark suit, tie and reading a broadsheet to the young teen with saggy jeans, baseball cap and piercings, we all wear an expression of our personalities to advertise to others our allegiance to some idea of style (or cool).

But is this really an expression of our personalities or rather an idea of who we want to be? For instance if we refer back to the young teen in the example above does their appearance accurately represent the person they are or is it a mask to allow them fit into a template of cool that they and their friends aspire to. If that teen were to be wearing dark clothing, punk hair, multiple piercings and various tattoos are they anymore expressing their personality through their clothing or rather just identifying themselves with an idea of who they want to be.

This works for the dour businessman who is using their clothing to set an idea in the head of the people they work with as to how to interact with them. In essence these are all uniforms that identify our place in a society and they affect the way we interact with that society - the expectations that come with a certain “uniform” that we wear shape the way that others view us.

So if the way people interact with us is shaped by the uniform we wear then how much of our personality is defined by that uniform. Is it a case of we choose the outward expression of ourselves through our appearance or does our appearance shape our inner thoughts and expressions. If the businessman were to work solely with a group of teens as described above would they remain the same person or would their appearance change - and by appearance I mean their dress, hair, gait, expressions and mode of speech. Would the businessman still be the same person or be moulded by the uniform?

So now we have an idea of uniform let me ask the question “which one do you wear and why”.