這是2016年時尚心理與文化課程的一個小遊戲。名為"嘗試你的新身份" (Trying Your New Identity)。

所有學生被規定要選一到兩天穿上不同於平常的打扮，進行平常的生活，並記錄周遭的人，包含熟人與路人對自己的反應。

因為覺得這個體驗非常有趣，也讓我發現了比較內心深層的自己，因此特地把記憶挖出來，希望可以透過影片、文字、音樂也讓你/妳體會。

另一層更深的意義是[發現]；外在的打扮，對內心有很大的影響。我們大多數會根據自己的價值觀、生活方式、以及我們當下想表現予他人的樣子，來裝扮自己。服裝之於人類擁有太多的意義，不僅在功能面、社會面、美觀面、甚至心理層面都有很大的影響。

這也就是為什麼，看似微不足道，僅僅是"打扮自己"的這點小事，卻能在人類史上佔有無比重要的地位，並進而形成"流行事業" (fashion industry)。

而究竟怎麼穿? 怎麼用穿著表達自己? 怎麼用打扮告訴別人自己是誰? 就需要靠每個人對自我的瞭解、對服裝的瞭解、以及對品味的培養了。

偶爾、將內心最深層的自己解放出來吧，讓他/她來告訴你/妳，你/妳還有可能成為誰?

若剛好路過這裡的你/妳，也來玩玩看吧~ ^___<

 

以下是我的紀錄: 

Objective

To examine how dressing in a way that is out of the ordinary for ourselves makes us feel and causes us to reflect upon our identity. Using systematic observation techniques, record other people’s reaction to our dress, our reaction to reviews, and comparisons of self to others.

Recording Your Experiences: 
1. Carry a notebook to record your reactions and the reactions of others as the experiment progresses. Record information on the following:

a. Positive and negative responses.

Positive: This dress looks so cool, this image suits you.
Negative: You look more aggressive than usual. You look difficult to get on with.
b. Responses from males and females.
Males seem afraid to see me but females look at me directly and twice.
c. Verbal and nonverbal responses.
Nonverbal responses: A glimpse. Or turn off their lines of sights.
Verbal: are you Elena? Where are you going today?
d. Responses from acquaintances, friends, and strangers.
Acquaintances: Where are you going, a dress code party? Are you going to night club tonight?
Strangers: you look not awkward, you look perfect.

e. Your feelings and thoughts about yourself before you venture out wearing the costume and as the experiment progresses.
Comparisons of self with others’ appearances.
Before, I feel scared, nervous and a little excited.
After, I am a little surprised at people’s responses. I assumed that people may fear for my exaggerated dressing, and give me a negative reaction, but instead, my friends and colleagues encourage me to dress myself like this.

2. describe the place you went, situations you were involved in, types of people with whom you interacted, types of people you were seen by but with whom you did not specially interact, date and times of day for each entry in your recordings, and weather conditions you may have experienced.
我打扮龐克的風格從我家走到學校，路上賣早餐的阿伯會看我一下，帶著小孩的媽媽感覺走比較快，來到學校剛好當天是校際園遊會，所以我比較特別的打扮沒有引起太多關注。校園內還有很多來遊玩的人也都打扮得很特殊，所以也被誤認為一份子吧。

Questions to Ponder
1. Were the reviews you received consistent with your program of dress? Consistent with your expectations? Consistent with any part of your self?
No, it’s a little different. As just a few classmates think I am a punker and most don’t think, they feel my dress is not stronger enough.

2. Was your self validated or challenged during the experiment? In what way? Plot how your feelings about your dress and yourself changed during the day.
Yes, I was changed because of this game, I found I was okay to dress myself like this, and I became bolder and I didn’t have to keep smile on my face, I could just tear down all of my fake face on that day.
But sometimes, I had to keep convincing myself I was a cool girl, I couldn’t smile, I had to control my emotion. And I actually felt funny and interested.

3. What factors may have affected your accuracy in interpreting responses from others?
The factors includes my personalities and self-awareness. perhaps, people don’t think my dress is distinctive or odd. However, because I was not used to dress in this way, my brain kept sending message that my dress was not right, it’s not me. So in my view, I think people try to keep a distance from me while walking through me.

4. Did you learn anything about how people respond to others on the basis of appearance? What types of meanings did various others seem to assign to your dress?
People usually disregard those people who dressed normally or in an animated  tone.

Appropriate clothing can help us to spend less effort and achiev more results. We dress ourselves depends on different purposes; we dress suit for a meeting, a interview, or an important and formal occasion. And wear more casual clothes for walking, shopping, or a movie. Sometimes , we put on athletic clothes for workout.

People may assign my dress to a crowd of fan belongs to subculture. Or I might be a crazy girl chasing rock stars every day, or I play guitar very day (?). XD

5. Did you learn anything about yourself─your capabilities, the influence others have on how you feel, your reliance on appearance to project a preferred identity?
我學到比較非大眾、非主流的打扮不見得就是錯誤，每個人的穿著打扮都有各自的原因；環境影響了多數人的穿著打扮，但偶爾也可以解放一下，尋找自己真正愛的樣子是什麼。偶而讓心出來透透氣，跳脫框架，跟著內心的想法做自己的打扮，也讓內心與外在的自己更加合為一。

6. Will you ever dress this way again?
會持續嘗試，尤其是希望找到更適合自己、能反映內在的我的樣子。

也可能因為好玩，或是因為要參加某個特殊場合 :)。