Item that people tend to mistake you by.

[Mcface]

my doc's and rolled up jeans.
people assume all skinheads are neo-nazis, when we all aren't.

I also wear a lot of offensive T-shirts.

like my "Free Abortions" shirt, with a stick figure punching another stick figure in the stomach.

 

[technoted]

People tend to mistake me as a satanist, just because I wear T-shirts with goats on and pictures of church's burning.

 

[LWS666]

i used to wear sandals all year round, but now i'm in scotland so that changed.

 

[WrongSprite]

I more or less constantly wear this brown t-shirt.
http://www.ahoodie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/drop_dead_raptors_t-shirt_dinosaur.jpg

It's because it's awesome, but people assume I'm a massive scene kid for it, which grates my nerves, as I'm more of a death/black metal kinda guy, I'm just not built like one.


EDIT: Oh, almost forgot, people almost universally recognise me by my Opeth beanie now, it doesn't come off.

As far as I can tell, one shirt is purple and the other is black. "Brown"? What?

The one on the right is very much brown, believe me, I own it.

 

[Jack_Uzi]

my doc's and rolled up jeans.
people assume all skinheads are neo-nazis, when we all aren't.

I know. I've seen a docu about the beginning of the skinhead movement. As far as I know they were something like a working class movement and had nothing to do with racism if I am not mistaken. But alas that happens with more things when you are a bit of a non-conformist, people always want to think they can get a mark on you.

*Edit: But as long as I know what I stand for, I couldn't care less what other people think of it. It says more about them being prejudice than me having on my coat or whatever.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

my doc's and rolled up jeans.
people assume all skinheads are neo-nazis, when we all aren't.

I get very bored of the silly fucks who always say to me "SkinHeads Against Racial Prejudice? Isn't that an oxymoron?"... Especially as I've been a SHARP since '91 so I've been one longer than half these wee twerps have been alive.

 

[monkyvirus]

I had a khaki satchel with the hammer and sickle on the front (I just liked the red on the khaki and though it looked cool) and I got on the bus and this group of older people, I say older cause some of em looked like 40 and others like 65, started yelling at me and telling me I was a communist cow... it was really freaky! They made me get off the bus

EDIT: I noticed fedoras being mentioned and I think people should only stare at fedoras because they are the coolest bit of headgear ever!

 

[Shockolate]

For much of the 2005-06 school year, I always wore my AC/DC Toque, because I was insecure about my hair having bald spots due to my Trichotillomania.

Before that though, I had a Beige Baseball cap I wore at recess for playing Wall Burner. Don't know what ever happened to it.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

As far as I know they were something like a working class movement and had nothing to do with racism if I am not mistaken.

The original skinheads were a mix of Mod and Hooligan, steeped in English working class tradition and heavily influenced by the Jamaican Rude Boy subculture.

 

[hottsaucekid]

i wear a clerks 2 shirt all the time and people know me for it...god i love that movie

 

[tobi the good boy]

I wear a tophat alot, so much so that everyone form my school is surprised when i dont wear it

 

[Jack_Uzi]

i wear a clerks 2 shirt all the time and people know me for it...god i love that movie

You like it better than 1?! To each his own of course, I liked them both. But I thought 2 was a bit slower in pace than the first.

 

[jpakaferrari]

I don't know if it's "me" but I have a yellow raincoat. The nice sturdy kind like you see construction workers wearing. I definitely get a lot of weird looks on the street. But I merely laugh at people, particularly the ones without even an umbrella. But ever the ones with umbrellas are usually left looking stupid as rain so rarely falls straight down. Admittedly I am rarely completely dry. But having a dry head and a dry core is really the most important and comfortable.

 

[Blair Bennett]

I wear a lot of black, a lot of fedoras, and a lot of trenchcoats. Considering I am a loud, obnoxious, adolescent female with, what is decidedly a rather short stature, this usually confuses people to no end.

 

[Mistermixmaster]

Well, I like to wear brightly colored hoodies (like my sunshine yellow one, it's my favourite), so people tend to mistake me for a happy blissfull (,if that's a word,) person with no problems or anything. I guess it's good camouflage as I don't want to let other people know how I feel at any given day, just by looking at my clothes or something.

I've also been mistaken for a commie because I bought a Russian commandant hat at Checkpoint Charlie on a trip once.

I've been mistaken for a christian because I wear my gold christian cross that I got as a present from my grandma. Once I was stuck in a debate with an ateist because of it, and how he thought I just tried to squirm away when I said I wasn't particularly religious >__>

I've also been mistaken for being homosexual (as some dude started hitting on me, because my white t-shirt had the misfurtune of being washed with a pair of red socks, and it was about 11-12 at the morning so I wasn't completely awake when putting said t-shirt on)... It was rather awkward and uncomfortable.

 

[fer1wi]

I have a t-shirt of the DVD boxart of Elfen Lied my friends dad made for me, so it's pretty much this

Spoiler

in t-shirt form. I've been asked about seven times by people I don't know 'So.. You like hentai then?'

Also, people find my fedora hat strange for some reason, which I only wear to gigs.

That's actually a pretty cool shirt! I can see it now...

OT: Sweaters. Not the really puffy ones, but a really thin one, that's gray outside, and white inside.
It's summer.
I still wear it.
People always ask me "Why are you wearing a sweater when it's summer?"
I always answer "It's my style". I got used to wearing sweaters. I don't know why, but I just do.
So, does this count then?

It sure does! Like I said, any item or clothing that makes people go "WTF?!" but you don't care what they think because it is just your style. And indeed, nice shirt. Used to have one of the old ghost in the shell movie. But it's all wrinkled now because of the washing in time

Oh, well in that case, Yay! I'm weird! (wait. No, yeah, yay! ^-^)

 

[rabidmidget]

My Hammer and Sickle patterned wallet.

"Hey why the Commie wallet? You flaunting your political standing?"

"No, I bought it because it looks nice and I like it. I don't need to flaunt that I'm a communist."

...now I want a wallet like that, the idea of the symbol representing communism being printed on an item that has such close ties to capitalism makes me giggle.