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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 13-Mar-2026 01:09:42 JST Adrianna Tan

   I also wonder sometimes how much of this can be traced back to spending many years in a high achieving crazy rich asian girls school (seriously, my classmates WERE from the family featured in THE BOOK and movie)

   Like everyone was so.. effortlessly put together? And I felt like there were unspoken rules I might have unwittingly broken around having to look a certain way.

   Instead, I was just this grubby kid playing in the mud with leaves in my hair, confused at why I was supposed to be 'well put together'

   (At 12, I learned my classmates were flying to Paris in a private jet regularly to get clothes from the Paris fashion week) LOL

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 13-Mar-2026 01:24:20 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Anca

     @anca indeed!

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     Anca (anca@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Friday, 13-Mar-2026 01:24:21 JST Anca

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     @skinnylatte Fashion is a lot more fun when the competition and other peoples' judginess are removed from it. Wishing you some good times discovering what you like in this space.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 13-Mar-2026 05:33:04 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Roy Brander🍁

     @RoyBrander sadly, I don’t think we realized that world.

     Alternatives to luxury high end fashion now are even worse for the environment

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     Roy Brander🍁 (roybrander@urbanists.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Mar-2026 05:33:05 JST Roy Brander🍁

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     @skinnylatte

     The entire point of Boomer jeans and tie-dyes was cheap clothing. Jeans were workwear.

     The early 70s, folk-rock was a big part of rock, not just the Stones; CSNY singing about farms and woods were also all about anti-consumerism.

     It was very frustrating when rich people invented "designer jeans"...

     We wished for a world where you CR Asians and indeed CR anybody, were eye-rolls, and not cool. They'd face "how many kids died for that sweater". Didn't get it!