Fear not, blog readers! Bluestraveler did not break from hiatus and purchase any clothes or accessories whilst down under. Perhaps the weak US$ quashed my desire to get that funky-yet-classic Hermes hat, but I attribute it to fear. After reading in a local newspaper about the “hair-raising fashion flop” between the cousin of Prince William (yes, he’s the Aussie’s prince too, in a way) and his girlfriend arriving at the same festival wearing “almost identical” black trilbys, how could I risk being seen in an off-the-rack hat that someone else most likely would be wearing?
What is it about wearing the same outfit – or even the same color scheme – that freaks women (and fashion magazine photographers) out so much? I mean, the entire male population of corporate America consistently wear the khaki pants with blue shirts on casual Fridays and don’t even notice that they look eerily the same, never mind care about it. So why do women care? And how did this become news?
I admit that I fear this every time I buy a non-vintage piece of clothing, especially one from a chain store that will have hundreds of these items in every size. It's a risk you take when you shop at those types of stores. If I know that a woman in my office has an outfit even similar to mine, I’ll do what every other woman does and either get rid of my outfit or try to time the wearing of mine so that it doesn’t overlap with the other woman wearing hers. (This means that if she wears it one day during a particular week, I can wear mine early the next week, thus giving everyone time to forget the other woman’s outfit while not risking that she’s going to wear it. I know I’m not alone in this.) Sometimes it's easier to just get rid of it, especially if she looks better in it than I do.
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