So I watched a video

So I tripped across a video randomly with a subject like 5 essentials for building a killer wardrobe and I'm not going to link to it here because I'm not interested in dragging anyone nor in making any fans of that kind of content feel like they are doing it wrong.

The first recommendation was a white t-shirt. 

That's a NO from me. I live in t-shirts. I prefer dark t-shirts. White t-shirts are undershirts or something you wear because you're too poor to afford appropriate clothes.

I've been that poor. My mother was extremely conservative and on top of that I now have negative personal associations and also also Muslims really frown on men being seen in public in a t-shirt because that's like a woman wearing a bra in public without a shirt.

It's underclothes and to me it screams "I'm dressed like this in public because I'm either completely uncouth or too poor to afford manners."

The second recommendation was a pair of jeans.

I can't remember the last time I OWNED a pair of jeans. It's been years.

FYI: Not all women are more petite than their partner. Some women are plump. Some women are gay. You are on the world wide web. Maybe think before you speak or at least edit before posting it.

I have a lot of criticisms about the US fashion industry being based in New York and Los Angeles and neither of those climates being typical for what most Americans are dealing with. 

This individual didn't do anything in this particular video to give context for who she is, where she lives, how she lives etc. 

Anyway, November West Wears is intended to be a means to build a business casual professional wardrobe for women with office jobs. 

Though I was a middle-class homemaker for years and the clothes I describe from my past were things I wore as a military wife and full-time mom. And I love skirts and dresses and I have made sure to describe wardrobes that are all skirts and dresses. 

I didn't own a pair of pants until age seven and didn't own a pair of jeans until age twelve. I owned a huge Bible fit to serve as a doorstep but only went to church a few times with the neighbors. 

So if you only wear skirts and dresses because of your religion, cool. I respect your right to follow a particular faith and abide by dress codes for that faith, but I've had people ask me if my parent's were conservative fundamentalist religious types.

No. They were old and old fashioned and little girls wore skirts and dresses -- often with matching shorts underneath so I could climb the monkey bars and hang upside down without my panties showing.

My mother grew up in the extremely cosmopolitan freistadt -- city state -- of Danzig. That's now Gdansk, Poland.

And her mother was from a low level German noble family. And my father was old enough to be my grandfather.

So my parents were extremely conservative but I wasn't raised in a religious household. Other people may assume skirts and dresses are about religion or oppression of women but I don't. 

I typically assume that if you were raised in a particular religion and still follow it or identify yourself that way, it's probably primarily because all your people are part of that religion and it gives you some meaningful degree of community and adds sufficient value to your life that you want to remain part of that social fabric.

I judge individuals on their actions. Whatever labels you have, I don't really care.

So if you happen to be religious and that's nominally why you wear skirts and dresses, whatever. 

Reality: Either you like skirts and dresses or you like your people and don't care that much what you are "required" to wear.

Because if you genuinely felt strongly about your faith but hated dresses, you would probably be trying to foment a revolution. 

I like skirts and dresses. In recent years, I haven't been in a position conducive to wearing them.

TLDR: I need to get off my genetically defective "lazy" butt and start writing code to develop the piece where people can design their dream wardrobe. 

Because most "advice" about what you "should" wear has a zillion baked in unstated assumptions about who you are, how you live etc. that probably don't actually apply to you.