it all started when our friend told us about a fellow who wore his sweats for an extended period of time just to see if someone would say something. if you think about it, it's an excellent way to test people's integrity. or something. in any case, it makes good people uncomfortable because it forces them to pit their manners against their desire to make the world a more hygenic place. this is what appealed to bex.
so she wore a yellow cardigan sweater over a grey t-shirt with some plaid pants and some velcro shoes. i believe this outfit also consisted of some sort of choker necklace. she wore the outfit for 56 days in a row. for church, she would remove the pants and replace them with a pillow-case skirt, even still retaining the velcro shoes. i wonder if she changed her socks? i can't remember. but i do remember that she only washed "the outfit" once.
this was at byu, and everyone proved to be much more polite than they were concerned about hygenics. i think part of it was that many classes bex attended were every other day, so the people she encountered had at least the hope that she changed her clothes every OTHER day.
there were, however, a few comments that seem pretty telling to me. one day, bex changed her choker necklace because she had gotten a new one that she wanted to wear. a girl in one of her classes said, "hey! you got a new necklace! i notice these things..." hopefully, this was just tact, and not complete irony.
also, the day bex voted, she was of course given a "i voted today" sticker. once the sticker was slapped to her mustard-yellow cardigan, it did not budge. it had officially become part of the outfit. and i believe one of her classmates did say at one point, "voted again today, huh?"
hahahaha.
