People who look at you...

[KontanKarite]

Actually, the best way to dress eccentric and be different is when you become the envy of every silent voice and all you ever hear is praise for being so cool.

Stick to that philosophy and you can pretty much be as eccentric as you want.

Don't dress odd in hopes for drama. Dress odd because it's who you are and that you are free of the confines of common and mundane expectations.

Make friends, not enemies.

[prophecyofdoom]

I enjoy being noticed, when it's not in an intrusive way. Anonymity is not in my nature.

[ionic_angel]

Originally Posted by prophecyofdoom

I enjoy being noticed, when it's not in an intrusive way. Anonymity is not in my nature.

Yes! Exactly. There is no fun to be had, in my opinion, in just "blending in".

[Tam Li Hua]

Originally Posted by KontanKarite

Don't dress odd in hopes for drama. Dress odd because it's who you are and that you are free of the confines of common and mundane expectations.

Make friends, not enemies.

Heh heh. Best explanation ever. XD

To add to that, I dress oddly [when I feel like it] because then at least I can say to myself, "Hey, that guy is staring at me because I have blue hair and interesting clothes" rather than "Hey, why is that guy staring at me, it's creeping me out."

At least with Gothism, it gives me something to aspire to fashion-wise..

[Tam Li Hua]

Oh, and about xenophobia...

After living in Asia for a while, I'm pretty sure the correct definition is "irrational paranoia or fear of foreigners and/or strangers". I think a lot of small Japanese towns are like this, or used to be...

[Opteron_Man]

Why even metion it if you don't care? So your Goth, good for you.

[Wormboy]

Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian

The same reason you'd look at a guy covered in shit and singing Chim-chim-cheer-e weird.

I love you!!

But yeah to the OP, shut up. If you look in the mirror before you leave house, and you know you look weird as shit, but are happy with how you look, nothing else should matter. If it does, go put on a polo shirt, some jeans, and a pair of nikes.

[xCrimsonx]

I do not care if someone stares at me because they really have reason to it.
The only thing now that is diffrent before i had this style is that I did choose it. Before i thoght everyone stared at me so i got paranoid :P
But now its better and they can stare if they want. I just dont care much

[Godslayer Jillian]

People staring at me has become a part of my life. It's not something I 'ignore' so that I won't feel bad; it's just simply normal for me, just as that there are clouds in the sky, and I don't go around saying "OMG clouds!"
It's my friends that make a big deal that people stare at me. Some feel annoyed people look at me weird. Some like that people turn to look when they're with me.
As for myself, I like wearing political stuff on my clothes so that if they stare at me, at least I have given them a social message, even if not all of them know who the Zapatistas are or what's wrong with Nike.

[blackwater1110]

Originally Posted by KontanKarite

Actually, the best way to dress eccentric and be different is when you become the envy of every silent voice and all you ever hear is praise for being so cool.

Stick to that philosophy and you can pretty much be as eccentric as you want.

Don't dress odd in hopes for drama. Dress odd because it's who you are and that you are free of the confines of common and mundane expectations.

Make friends, not enemies.

Most awesome. I went to a big outdoor drinking party last night, and the fun thing about it was, that everyone who I knew was comfy with me being goth because they saw past it at my attitude, and some of those people who didn't know me came up and said they had seen me around school and had wanted to meet me because I seemed "interesting." One friend came up to me really really drunk and said, "listen, I just wanted to tell you that you're really awesome." I found all of this fascinating, because, being the only "goth kid" at my school (it's very small), I've had to reconcile my identity as a personal thing, and not as a group thing; instead of just seeking out other "goth kids," I've hung out with a lot of diverse and interesting people who I would never have thought I would meet or get along with. The only way to seemingly explain this paradox, is that it is just as Kontan said--when you are yourself, no matter who that is, without reservations, people don't care who you are, they just admire the fact that you are you, without compromise.

Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian

People staring at me has become a part of my life. It's not something I 'ignore' so that I won't feel bad; it's just simply normal for me, just as that there are clouds in the sky, and I don't go around saying "OMG clouds!"
It's my friends that make a big deal that people stare at me. Some feel annoyed people look at me weird. Some like that people turn to look when they're with me.

I was hanging out at the beach with my father one day, long after I had started dressing unconventionally, and he pointed out that people were watching me. I looked around and, surprisingly, there were a lot of people eying me; I had forgotten that, although I'm used to dressing as I do, and that it seems the 'norm' relative to my life, other people would consistently be perceiving me as different from their perspective. It's true, after a while, you become so accustomed to people's reactions that you don't even process them anymore.

As for myself, I like wearing political stuff on my clothes so that if they stare at me, at least I have given them a social message, even if not all of them know who the Zapatistas are or what's wrong with Nike.

That's actually really brilliant. I do something of that nature in that I wear shirts with thought-provoking quotes on the back, because then when people do look at me, they might read the quote and think about it, which would be like positively affecting complete strangers.