Another thread made me think about this, and rather than hijack, I thought I would start my own thread on this topic. How do you dress for therapy and why?

I typically wear jeans and my favorite boots to therapy, and some kind of a nice t-shirt or blouse or sweater. I used to wear jeans and a baggy t-shirt or sweatshirt, but as my depression lifted, I started wearing nicer shirts without really thinking about it.

I am a professional but self employed so can dress as I like on days I do not have court or am not meeting with a client. I have noticed that the times I have had court on therapy days and wore a suit to therapy, I felt much more constrained and it was really difficult to address my emotions. I worried about being able to "turn off" the emotions and get ready for court, so I just never really let my guard down on those days or got into anything significant. So, I started trying to schedule my court on non-therapy days, and if I couldn't, I would reschedule therapy. When that didn't always work, I decided to go ahead and wear jeans to therapy and just bring my suit to change into later. The act of changing helped me to compartmentalize my day and get the emotions back under control before I had to get ready for court.

So how about you guys? What do you wear? Maybe stopdog needs to start a poll since I don't know how to do that.