Concerning style - and not having one

I love dressing up, and I have for as long as I can remember. I love making up characters and stories, taking on a different personality depending on my clothes. What you wear changes how you walk, how you talk, how you move and how you feel.

I admire people who have a trademark style; an image: People who only wear vintage and put their hair in pin curls every evening. Reggae listening dread-locked girls in bright colors. Goths with spikes and leathers all in black. Business women in high heels and pencil skirts. Someone that manages to stay loyal to the same style is a hero in my eyes.

I guess I do not want to be put in a case, to have a label on me. Therefor I have never succumbed to a certain way of dressing.

I have had my periods though.

For a while I wore only jeans and t-shirts, or short sleeved t-shirts on top of long sleeved ones. I don't think I touched a skirt or dress for months.

Then I went through an "emo" phase: black kohl all around the eyes, red slimfit jeans, black or white t-shirts with sex pistols on them. And a belt with the word EGO written in large sparkling letters.

Well I guess that's just being a teenager; trying to fit in. Or for me - to standout.

Being different was always more important than being accepted.

I have often had people telling me that I look great but they would never even consider wearing the same thing. Because they are scared? Because they are comfortable with having a label on them and their style?

I'm not. And I probably never will be.

When I wake up in the morning I am in a certain mood. If I've seen a movie the day before I might dress like one of the characters. I usually draw inspiration from movies, TV-shows and music. Though sometimes it's a special person or an era, maybe a photograph or a pattern.  Pretty much anything really. Often it's just a mood. And once I manage to transform this feeling/film/music etc. into something wearable I create a character out of it. And I become this character. Sometimes it's a Russian ballet dancer, others a Cuban rumba singer, or maybe even Rambo.

When I worked full time at Disney I wore my costume five days a week so I lost the will to try new things, but going back to school sparked my imagination again. Some days I just go for jeans and t-shirts, but I also have days of vintage dresses and 50's makeup. I like to keep people on the edge of their seats. This way people just never know. And when I walk through the door it's often a surprise. Good or bad - doesn't matter, at least they can't label me.

I have never seen anyone dress like you. I just... I don't know what to say about it. It's... you never know what you'll wear. One day you're like this, the next like that. I... I don't understand it. 

 -  a friend who dresses like homeless person.

Do  you have a certain style? Do people comment on it? 

Bisous mes amis, tell me all about it