My final note for those who are just tuning into this for the sake of the data stuff: part of the reason that this is interesting is that as a recent graduate turned remote worker, I'm no longer getting dressed to go out at least once every day like I did for school (when I also rarely ever engaged in fitness). In a area that is underrepresented in QTBIPOC community, I am more likely to wear clothes that make me feel stealth as a binary gender than I would have on my liberal campus, where no one cared if I wore completely random aesthetics regardless of gender each day. I am still in my 20s. I don't want to get rid of clothes because that's only what "college" me would wear, I still want clothes that are just for fun. However, I also need to acknowledge that my lifestyle has changed drastically, and it doesn't make sense to apply the rules I had as a student to both the clothes I still own and my body as it is now. All of this might change since, as a remote worker, the environment I am living in isn't guaranteed to be the same across four years, let alone one.

As a whole, I realize that I engage in fitness activities far more than I have ever experienced in my life before. I only own a few, and this comes into conflict with laundering them often. It was hard for me to embrace the fact I both didn't have garments that fit me and that I didn't have enough relative to how much I was wearing them for the purposes of hygiene. Fitness garments can be easily integrated to outfits for pajamas or running errands. It's hard to find fitness garments that meet my personal style, but it could make a difference on the range of garments I have for "other" if they did. So maybe, I need goth, punk, fitness clothing? I guess I'm about to start getting on that REI outlet life? Well, I do take inspirations from tech wear in my style too. As fitness garments get worn down, they can also easily make their way to the PJ's category. I live in a remote area, so what I wear to the gym matters less to me, but it could matter more to me when I live in a more populated area again. And, I know I can dress casually at home, but it would be nice to feel like a vampire not just in the streets, but in the... house and gym.

Honestly, most of my clothes that I buy these days are secondhand in general, which conflicts with me finding consistent replacements when my older garments don't fit me or meet my needs. I think the ideal PJ's would be something that is consistently comfortable sensory wise, cohesive across temperatures, while being appropriate for video work calls, and ideally, as sustainable as possible. Growing up without access to reliable heating and cooling means that I just got used to making clothes I had to work, and building my lifestyle around that, like having clothes I only put on when I left my bedroom, wearing 4 shirts instead of having 1 really warm sweater. Not as much did I get a chance to consider getting clothes that suited my lifestyle.

The numbers somewhat affirm what I was already expecting to see. I am mostly at home wearing PJ's. My PJ's are clothes that center comfort, such as tops that don't cinch or rest around my waist. Instead, they are usually at a length that goes past my hips. These are secondhand clothes that I don't mind wearing down. In the summer, I wear what is necessary to not be an exhibitionist to those who might be able to see me through the windows. This winter, I tried to wear some sweaters that I keep in my going out bin. I found myself avoiding knits, which I realized may be in part to me subconsciously thinking that they are both harder to clean and easier to wear down. The texture of a sweatshirt material that is more smooth and consistent was preferable. Furthermore, I noticed that many of my sweaters stop at my waist. It caused me to consider how often I might be getting dressed wearing something for the sake of its style and silhouette, but not necessarily for comfort (confidence that it won't ride up in the back). Clothes that are uncomfortable are subconsciously less likely going to be worn, or memories when wearing them might be less pleasant purely because of the negative sensory experience of my outfit.
#clothing

This is a chart that represents per category: how many times in a month did I get dressed? I only included months for where I had a full set of data.

We can see that, on average:
- I get dressed for "errands, walks, volunteering, etc." for about 2-3 weeks out of the month, which is decreasing.
- I get dressed to go to the gym for about 1-2 weeks out 2 weeks out of the month, which is increasing.
- I get dressed for work for a little less than 1 week out of the year, which is steady.

Note that since going on walks may include either gym clothes or outdoor clothes, I put it in the "other" category at times when I was only engaging with fitness, so the actual count of outfits only worn for fitness is higher than looking at the gym data alone. This means that outfits that might be purely for socializing, not for going on walks, are likely lower than is seen here. I also don't work out when traveling for work or family, which inflates my behavior out certain outfits relative to my daily life at home. I don't think a year is enough for me to really generalize how travel may be affecting this data.

Breaking this down by category can get a little tricky. This is only looking at the true or false counts for whether I got dressed for work, gym, or other, at least once during that day. It is not representative of how many times I wore that outfit, or the total unique outfits I ever wear. For example, I may go out twice in a day, wear the same outfit, but I'm only looking to see if I wore an outfit for that purpose at least once (which is the usual case). It doesn't tell me for how long I might have worn that outfit, nor is it easy for me to track if this is an outfit that I am repeating easily since I wear clothes so infrequently overall.

Thus, out of all the 160 days I got dressed to leave the house:
- 55% of the days, I dressed for "errands, walks, volunteering, etc." at least once or more
- 30% of the days, I dressed for the gym at least once or more
- 15% of the days, I dressed for work at least once or more

The #Trump admin is preparing to help the #Afrikaners find “temporary or longer-term #housing” & “basic #HomeFurnishings, essential household items & cleaning #supplies,” acc/to the memo. The admin is also planning to help the Afrikaners secure “#groceries, weather-appropriate #clothing, #diapers, #formula, hygiene products & prepaid #phones that support the day-to-day #wellbeing of households,” the memo said.

[just think about the treatment of non-#white immigrants]
#law #immigration