Not like the other girls...

[graculus]

I've admitted for many years that I am a geek and have no issues where that is concerned. Next week I've got a couple of days off work and admitted that it's time for my biennial shopping trip for clothes since my underwear is starting to fall to bits - in general, if I need a pair of trousers, for example, the fact that a couple of local supermarkets now sell clothes has been sufficient for me.

However, the statement I made at work that provoked the most disbelief was this one: I have never owned a handbag.

Peeps at work - "But where do you keep your stuff?"
Me - "I have a briefcase for work, otherwise I use a daysack or my pockets."
Peeps at work - *stunned silence*
Me - "Do you really need a handbag and a briefcase if you're working?"
Peeps at work - "Probably not, but still... never?"
Me - "Nope."

And then I told them I didn't really care for buying shoes either. ;) E.T.A. Last wore a skirt in 1991, don't own a skirt or a dress and haven't for a similar length of time.

Help me, oh friendslist - surely I am not alone in this lack of slavish devotion to the cult of handbags and shoes? I always knew I was not a 'girl', even when biologically I was young enough, but even so...

Comments

[emony.livejournal.com]

I hate buying shoes with an unholy passion. However, I must admit that it's mostly because I adore all those horribly impractical high-heeled monstrosities in virulent shades of purple and such, but can't wear them because my feet are designed for trainers, and trainers only, and even those get uncomfortable after a few hours. So my hatred is mostly fuelled by bitterness that I can't have the pretty shoes, and frustration that I can never find any footwear at all that is anything other than massively uncomfortable.

My "handbag" (I just call it a bag, but I suppose it fulfils the same function) looks like this (http://www.bagsetc.co.uk/index.asp?pid=3912943&pg=1&level1=HANDBAGS&level2=CANVAS+AND+CASUAL&level3=) only it's dark brown, and cost about £5. I don't have a briefcase, as my job is in no way important enough for any such accessory, so I have to have a bag to keep my keys, driving licence and lunch in. And plasters for my sore feet.

I buy most of my clothes from Sainsburys as well. They make very nice t-shirts, and their jeans fit me very well, unlike so many others. And they're pretty cheap, so it works out wonderfully.

I'm not sure this'll help your case any, though. I totally fail at being a girl. Examples - I've worn lipstick one time in my 27 years of life, and that was at someone else's insistence, I don't own a single dress or skirt, and I hate having to get my hair cut and have it done as infrequently as possible.

But I'm okay with it.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Well, when I say 'briefcase', what I mean is a black nylon laptop/messenger bag, rather than the Louis Vuitton hand-crafted virgin leather whatchamacallit. ;)

Also, I think a while back I also horrified some of the folks at work by telling them I hadn't worn a skirt since October 1991 and didn't own either a skirt or a dress of any description!

As far as shoes are concerned, I have wide feet and so probably wouldn't be able to wear the silly high heeled things anyway, even if I wanted to. Which I don't and never have.