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

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

I hate buying shoes and any clothes, really. I don't wear dresses often. I do however, carry a handbag, which I call a pocketbook. Even though I was not a ladylike or girly person even as a teen, I've always liked to carry lots and lots of stuff with me. In high school, I wore a coat with giant pockets to fit in my cigarettes and pens and whatever else, but eventually I had a pocketbook. I always bought them for size and compartments, and didn't pay attention to geekiness.

I always liked to make sure I had room for a book and a hairbrush, pens, notebook, and so on. Nowadays I usually also carry some hand cream and cough drops and stuff like that. I still tend towards the cheap pocketbooks that are serviceable but not considered an accessory. If I could, I'd just carry a backpack, because I hate actually carrying a pocketbook around with me, but most backpacks are too large. For a while pocketbooks that were like mini backpacks were popular, but those are hard to find nowadays.

I hate buying shoes, but I actually wear only sneakers (athletic shoes). I had to have some regular shoes to wear with a skirt for an event last fall, so I actually found some new athletic shoes that were shaped sort of like reasonable skirt shoes (flats--I would never, ever, ever wear heals of any kind), and I was thrilled. I thought I might wear them again, but I never have. heh