For me, the feeling of "dressing up" doesn't just come from the costume-like experience, it comes from the fact that my skirts and dresses just tend to be fancier.
I think I'm conceptualizing it as a continuum because of how I've experienced some switching back and forth over my lifetime. As a small child, I would only wear skirts and dresses. I began wearing pants around 10-11 years* and went through a period of pants-only in which I always pulled my hair back into a ponytail. And now I am not only comfortable dressing from both sides of my own closet, I have the closet with more than one dimension of clothing.
* For the class musical, we were supposed to dress as hippies. Fortunately, this was a year that was in fashion. But the bell-bottoms I found and fell in love with were expensive; to get my parents to buy them, I had to promise to wear them.
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Date: 2010-08-27 11:50 (UTC)I think I'm conceptualizing it as a continuum because of how I've experienced some switching back and forth over my lifetime. As a small child, I would only wear skirts and dresses. I began wearing pants around 10-11 years* and went through a period of pants-only in which I always pulled my hair back into a ponytail. And now I am not only comfortable dressing from both sides of my own closet, I have the closet with more than one dimension of clothing.
* For the class musical, we were supposed to dress as hippies. Fortunately, this was a year that was in fashion. But the bell-bottoms I found and fell in love with were expensive; to get my parents to buy them, I had to promise to wear them.