Pressure

As I was on my home from school today, two girls looked at me, then started to talk. "What was it?" I thought. I looked around me and then back at them again. Oh, so it's the way I dress.

These two girls wore almost matching clothes and shoes, and their hair were tucked neatly behind their ears. Their make-up skills were superb too. On the other hand, I dressed like a typical Singaporean- a shirt with a pair of jeans, and my hair was in a mess. I look...sloppy.

I know I know, I am not fashionably dressed. Or rather, I'm too conservative. I don't wear tubes(it's meant to be worn inside btw), and I don't wear very short shorts(those that barely cover your buttocks).  I don't even know if "conservative" is the correct term to describe me. LOL.

So back to the point, I don't really dress well, but that's not always the case. Aside from special occasions, I do make an effort to dress up. I'm not going to dwell on that.

My point is, why should dress so nicely for school? I mean, I am only going to be in school for a few hours, at most, 10 hours. Won't it be weird if I dress nicely to school, but I am lugging a huge bagpack to school? I would have looked horrible with my shoulders slouching.

I also wouldn't want to put on make-up to school. It'd melt in a few hours due to the hot and humid weather. I don't mind putting on make-up for a few hours though.

It's ironic that Asians in Asia wants to dye their hair to another color whereas Asians in other parts of the world, let's say, the States, wouldn't want to dye their hair as much as we do. In Singapore, you can find all kinds of hair colors. I even see some with purple or red hair. However, many people wants to have black hair in the States and you would rarely see Asians in the States with other type of hair colors.

I feel pressurized. It's a mixture of peer pressure and society pressure. I feel that each of us have their own distinct "style", and no one should mock at others because of the way they dress. All in all, don't judge a person by the way they dress.