Is there a value to dressing? is there a meaning to it all?
I have wondered this on and off and come to think that yes there is in that where meaning comes in is what there is dressing to the individual . What drives one and so forth.
The value to it is quite another thing. The value of how much one has spent in getting to where one wants to be; By my take on value is in another direction.
I"came out" a good few years ago to mixed reception, lost some friends but kept a lot more, some hostility from my son but not my daughter. But my main point in regarding these values, is in what I have gained "ACCEPTANCE".
I rapidly found accceptance in my little hamlet (11 all french people) but more importantly I found slowly but surely a higher a level of aceptance in the town where I got to do my main shopping; I gained more friends there espec ialy in the LGBT community, ones I got to know, strangers now acknowledge me in the street, my dressing from being a case of "who is this" to now " oh hi Bobbi how are you" and so forth.
I have got a favourite cofee shop and during the hot part of our summer I was greeted there witha " sexy Bobbi ".
This where I think value comes in, the value of friends and aquantancies all accepting you for both who and what you are.
In my case " I have arrived" and what i have got generally I appreciate and value very highly indeed.
I am fortunate in what I have I guess I am.