Best of the Transparent Hummingbird
even court attire, which i used to hate because it was so like having to wear a uniform, is beginning to become comfortable you put it on, and you go to work.
it is not about you, people are not sizing you up for how you’re dressed; we’re all dressed the same, we all have to be
dressed the same.
as a uniform it is a powerful symbol. security guards are more deferential, take less time screening you, people don’t ask questions when you let yourself into restricted areas, when you pass through the
corridors or enter a courtroom you nod and smile at others, they know
if all my wayward insistence on brightly-coloured, figure-hugging, mad-men dresses for the office is my way of refusing the tedium and conformity of corporate wear, my courtroom attire , the very inconspicuousness, deliberae — personality
it is not about you, to walk through the courthouse in
- the security guards are more polite, you can let yourself into restricted areas
- a transparent hummingbird ~