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Anonymous
Yeah, even if most people don't like them, if you like them and like whatever they say about you to people you meet, keep them.
I'm almost never without a Tilley hat, even though lots of people think it looks silly and I get asked if I'm on safari by random store clerks if I have my camera with me. My closest friend just got her tongue pierced and most people she knows think she's crazy for it. Another friend of mine will get up like a pirate sometimes, just because he likes it. We don't think the dreads look good on you. So what?
"Vice Five: Seek Fashion First, Then seek to be Understood
In these days of dressing down and 'casual Fridays,' it's prudent to remember that the highly creative have always known that communication with words is secondary. When winning friends and influencing people, the primary concern is your attire -- your own peculiar fashion statement. It is through the impact of this image that both friends and enemies will initially come to know you. What is more gratifying than having everyone stop and stare, wondering why they feel so drab and ineffectual, when you enter a room? If you've got a stylish wardrobe, the battle to be understood is merely a stroll in the park.
One of the inevitable consequences of dressing down is that everyone today looks the same -- and those with designer logos like Hilfiger plastered on their clothes look plain stupid. The highly creative always choose their wardrobes with a more consistent flair. Whether it be Picasso with his striped sailors' tops, which he imagined gave him an eternally boyish edge; or Hugh Hefner with his classic pipe and silk pajamas, which he believed gave him a kind of worldly nonchalance (and could be stripped off quickly when opportunity knocked); the creative spirit picks a style and sticks with it."- D.A. Blyler, from "The Seven Vices of Highly Creative People."
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