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Clothing and Personal Identity

By Andreea Mincu

Feb 10, 2022
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For eight years, I had to wear a uniform to school. While doing so, I never felt quite myself. The colors were boring, and the style expressed severity and conformity. Only when I made the uniform my own by adapting it to my tastes as much as I could did I begin to feel comfortable with it.

Almost everyone has felt something similar; wearing clothes you …

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