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

[leethet.livejournal.com]

The other part that's funny is the faint thread of ... defensiveness about the idea of carrying a "purse." It doesn't matter what you call it - a bag to hold your stuff in is a bag to hold your stuff in, whether you call it a purse and others cry "victim of the fashion gestapo" or you call it a bag/backpack/briefcase to avoid people daring to think you carry a "purse." It's a bag to hold stuff in, and there's nothing morally wrong with that - and I know you weren't suggesting so, Grac; I'm just kind of laughing because I'm reminded of when men started to carry totes/soft briefcases or whatever they call them now and they used to get mortally embarrassed that people called them purses. "They're not purses!" If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck ... :-)