Actually, I'd forgotten about the funny looks and not-so-hidden "go away" body language... at both SF cons I attended, I was in street clothes. I didn't know any better, and would not have felt comfortable in costume anyway, I'm too self-conscious (one reason why I never really got into the SCA, either, although I had many friends who were).
So after those two attempts at cons, a decade apart, the isolation and social rejection memories have been enough to keep me from trying again, even after I actually knew people who attended...
Work shirts... fine, for me space-related clothing articles are mundane, just mission- and project-related stuff. Non-fictional.
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Date: 2004-05-30 04:10 pm (UTC)So after those two attempts at cons, a decade apart, the isolation and social rejection memories have been enough to keep me from trying again, even after I actually knew people who attended...
Work shirts... fine, for me space-related clothing articles are mundane, just mission- and project-related stuff. Non-fictional.