Good questions, Ornella. My answers...
- Are you dressed suitably for the job you do? --> Yes
- Is it within the dress code of your workplace? --> Yes
- Do you feel happy and comfortable with your outfits? -->Yes
- Do you ultimately feel YOU in what you wear? -->Yes
If the answer to these is sound YES, especially the last one, the biggest issue is resolved. Do you want to fit in with sleek, plastcky environment, and why? Would you feel better if you blended in, and why?... <-- The thing is, I love my outfits on my home territory. I think my outfits these days are really me because I am really on my home territory again - where I was born and raised. Because I do indeed have this thing, and I'm afraid it really is because I've got a family of architects, about design. Design to the last drop. I've got this impulse, not to blend in, but to be one with the gestalt. Maybe I should treat it as the devil whispering in my ear, because the lord knows, a lot of design is "the emperor's new clothes." Ugly and uncomfortable. If the brain weren't distracted, the eyes would see things as they really are. For example, a concrete block is not a comfy sofa...
To be quite honest, it's why the revolutionaries always go after the intellectuals. My preppy training also fights my RATE instincts.