Do you feel the need to keep up with your friends/workmates in terms of style?

Since finishing university, and starting my job a year ago, I have spent a lot more on shoes and clothes, I feel I have to since my workmates often look like a fashion page spread, and I look like a tramp in comparison.

Needless to say, I have also had to invest in plenty of these



...because 4" heels are not at all practical for work.

I also have one particularly stylish friend, she looks amazingly well put together, it takes me about 5 hours to plan outfits to wear when I see her so I don't look like her poor unfortunate plain friend.

I appreciate that this is amazingly pathetic, but do you ever find yourself 'keeping up with the joneses"?

I don't feel like that with my proper friends
but with my work friends yes very much so
at work it's fine becasue we have a uniform, but when we go for works nights out and stuff I panic so much
y'see I'm very much an 'indie' girl and they aren't at all
so when we go out for drinks it's always to the town centre to the 'trendy' bars where everyone dresses a certain way and if I turned up in my normal clothes I would feel very out of place and I prefer to just blend in really...
I know I should just wear what I want to and not care what anyone else thinks blah blah
but reality just isn't like that, I DO care what people think
just like I know they would worry about what they wore of they came to one of my indie music clubs with me

no.

but then again i tend to be the most fasionable one of the group. (as sad as that is)

no
i've never considered being fashionable just to keep up with my friends or the people i work with
i dress for myself, i wear what i like and what makes me feel confortable. i wouldn't be able to spend 5 hours planning an outfit just to keep up with someone because i'd probably end up feeling unconfortable and wishing i had worn something else
sometimes i can't stand going out with my girlfriends because all they talk about is who's wearing the most beautiful pair of shoes or who has the better put together outfit or whose makeup is done better
i like my style and i don't need the approval of others

nope, jeans and tee are as exciting as my friends get