By all means wear what you want, but the positive reactions you get from strangers who directly approach you are not necessarily an accurate way to gauge how most people are reacting to your outfit. You’re sampling from the population of “people who have spontaneously chosen to engage with you”.
Generally when you wear a polarising outfit people who dislike it won’t go out of their way to tell you. I’m extroverted enough that I will (very occasionally) complimented strangers in public on nice/unusual outfits, but I’ve never told a stranger their outfit is bad.
”I inevitably get weird looks from the kind of people who think having a tattoo is an affront to god but they give me that look for just existing with blue hair and pronouns too”
This line in particular just seems like bad epistemics. Is it really likely that everyone who reacts badly to their outfit would also judge them for having coloured hair?
By all means wear what you want, but the positive reactions you get from strangers who directly approach you are not necessarily an accurate way to gauge how most people are reacting to your outfit. You’re sampling from the population of “people who have spontaneously chosen to engage with you”.
Generally when you wear a polarising outfit people who dislike it won’t go out of their way to tell you. I’m extroverted enough that I will (very occasionally) complimented strangers in public on nice/unusual outfits, but I’ve never told a stranger their outfit is bad.
”I inevitably get weird looks from the kind of people who think having a tattoo is an affront to god but they give me that look for just existing with blue hair and pronouns too”
This line in particular just seems like bad epistemics. Is it really likely that everyone who reacts badly to their outfit would also judge them for having coloured hair?