Clothing choices

I go for the casual stuff... jeans and a sweatshirt. People are always telling me how competent / capable I am and I feel like I'd be in "capable mode" if I dress up and not as able to be real and vulnerable. If a session goes really well one week, I want to wear the same thing again next time - a bit superstitious I guess, or the clothes are associated with the positive.

When I got to T before or after work I'm wearing jeans, an oversized sweatshirt (I'm the only female in company, there are no swaetshirts in my size available until the next order) and horrible steel toe boots. When not working it tends to be jeans with nicer boots, and a nice sweatshirt or Polo shirt. Most of the time I go to my horses straight after T, and often it would have been so much easier to wear my riding pants to T instead of changing in the car. But I just couldn't do it, even though my T is a rider too...

Haha, I do a similar thing! And if my session went really badly, I probably won't wear the same outfit again in therapy.

I don't think I would remember what I wore on any specific day to the therapy appointment. I don't know what I am wearing now unless I look down to see.

Ya I definitely dress up a bit more when I see my therapist. I make sure not to look casual or frumpy. Ever since she told me I had a great fashion sense I feel pressured to impress for every session.

I know my T pays close attention to the way I'm dressed or put together. I come from work and I am always in business clothes which is usually a suit. There have been a few times that even though I'm dressed up for work, I don't look as put together because I'm having major anxiety or an issue I'm dealing with. Usually the next appt he will tell me I look much better than I did at the previous appt.

I figured out it was a good place to experiment. I wore bedroom slippers a couple times, they are comfortable in the winter. It was more interesting to me to see how I felt about dressing in a "taboo" way and going out in public rather than being afraid of what my T would say.

I know my T notices my outfits and when I change my hair,from bangs to color and she always notices my shoes. I'm usually in casual clothes as I try to see her on my days off from work. She has said that she has never seen me in the same outfit twice.

One morning I had the urge to just go in my pj's and bedroom slippers

Yes, I think about it. Of course I have a tendency of thinking about a lot of things.

On the first appointment I intentionally dressed in a way to look like I was an idiot who didn't have much money for therapy. I'm not sure why I do this, but it's not the first time. It might not be an act actually .

After shocking my T with the wrongness of their first impression of me I didn't really think about it for a while. Then, when I realized I really liked my T I would pay more attention. A lot of times I would come from work so it would be a matter of how dressed up for work I got. I would debate over whether to wear this short skirt or pants, to be exciting and adventurous or comfortable. Fully aware that I'm doing this to try to impress the T, or be seductive. A few times I've intentionally dressed down for this same reason. I'd decide I'd come across like a slut in a skirt, so I'd end up throwing on a T shirt and baggy pants. I'm a lot better at not obsessing now. I figure it doesn't really matter much, since I don't really want or need to seduce my therapist. Sometimes I dress up, just for the fun of it.

I usually wear what I wore to work that day....but sometimes I purposely change beforehand into something more comfortable. Usually jeans and a hoodie. I have this problem though where I will sometimes feel like I have to go to the store before our appt. and purchase something new. I get so anxious trying to find a new shirt or shoes or whatever. A lot of the times, I end up buying nothing. I don't know why it matters to me anyway as my T rarely mentions how I look...

When I was working I used to wear whatever I wore to work that day (relatively smart i'd say). But then I was made redundant after almost 14 years and I was devastated by the loss, after that I mostly always wore jeans and a jumper, the same outfit to my sessions - I was just so sad that wearing anything different just didn't seem right. I guess it sounds weird, but I wanted my T to know how sad I was through my clothes.

Also, because I had a bit of transference (I really missed him SO much between sessions) and he kinda knew, I didn't want to wear anything too different or change my makeup because I didn't want him to think that I liked him in that way (because I didn't).

I seem to wear the same 3 outfits. I know he notices but has never said anything.

I wish I could just send my disembodied brain to T so he would not have to look at my disgusting, ill-dressed body.

Totally feel you there.

Only one time have I even given any thought to what I was wearing, that was when I wore a T-shirt that I knew that he would find funny. It was a shirt that said "expressions of Vader". It had all of these pictures of Darth Vadar, obviously with the same expression because of the mask.

He ended up getting a copy of the shirt from google images and putting it up in the staff lounge

I am going to have to get that shirt
The only clothing I find interesting is statement/funny T shirts.