Do you wear anything that you consider part of your identity?

[Bertha Venation]

I can't really define what I mean.

I wear the bracelet my sisters gave me for my 40th birthday, and my Ray-Ban Wayfarers, which I have worn for more than 20 years. I really can't explain what I mean by "part of my identity." But I would feel naked without the bracelet (and I live in terror of losing it), and everyone who knows me knows the sunglsses. They're "me."

What about you?

[Heidi]

1. Yes, I do.

I wear a tigereye mala around my left wrist. It's kinda like this. :hi:

[Bertha Venation]

3. How pretty!

[BarenakedLady]

2. Not really

I always have in my diamond stud earrings though. I'm not particular attached to them, but most earing's make my holes infected so I just leave them in all the time.

[siligut]

7. Sounds like you have a nickle allergy.

Most stainless steel and some silvers posts contain nickel. It is more of a contact dermatitis, but is red and weepy like an infection. Just so you know. :hi:

[BarenakedLady]

27. It's possible

Cheap rings and necklaces also make my skin turn green.

[SteppingRazor]

4. Kinda obvious answer, but my wedding ring would fit the bill. n/t

[Tripper11]

5. teva's - all seasons as much as possible!

I hate socks...I hate shoes...and as an added bonus this year, my daughter has been painting my toenails black!

*edited - typo

[skygazer]

6. I have a silver pinkie ring with the design of two running horses on it

I've been wearing it for close to ten years and I would feel very odd without it. Oddly, I find myself feeling the same way about my wedding ring. "Oddly" because I never really thought I would.

This is the horse ring -

[billyskank]

8. My neck beads.

They never come off, except when they break and I need to get new ones.

[Richardo]

9. Just my cape and tights

[Bunny]

16. Do you wear this on your chest?

:hi:

[Richardo]

22. You've seen me!

I've been known to fight crime with a hot sidekick.

[dembotoz]

10. my glasses-so i don't walk into things

[MorningGlow]

11. A silver Celtic knot ring I bought in Glastonbury

At the time it was quite unique, nearly impossible to find (this was a couple of years before the intertubes made shopping easy). Now it's in every friggin' New Age shop and catalog on the planet. But I still love it. :)

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. No - I think making "stuff" part of one's identity is rather... well, low.

Not to say that we can't have things that we enjoy wearing or having around us, and maybe wear a lot.

But to self-identity through some *thing* is kinda empty and sad. Celebrities - especially pop musicians - seem to do that a lot. "Oh, I'm the guy in the band who always wears a top hat" or "I'm the 'rough and tumble' N'Stink guy who always wears the jeans with holes in them" and so on.

Versus, say, in your case, you started wearing the sunglasses because you like them and then they became associated with you; which is different than wearing something and letting it define you, or wearing something simply because you want to put forth some certain kind of identity, ala "I always wear sunglasses inside because I'm cool and that says how cool I am because I'm so cool that I don't care that no one can see my eyes when talking with them, because I'm sunglasses guy, that's who I am".

[southpaw]

13. Man purse

It's been an integral part of who I am for the past two years.

[KitchenWitch]

14. Just my magic mormon underwear!

:P

[Oeditpus Rex]

15. A thin gold chain with a gold Gibson ES guitar on it

Can't see the guitar in this pic, but it's there.







The clasp broke a couple months ago, and I felt... not quite right until I took it to a jeweler and got it soldered. I've worn it almost constantly for the last 25 years or so.

I don't wear the earring every day. I'm afraid of losing it.

[lizziegrace]

19. Sigh

have guitar, will travel...

;)

:thud:

[Oeditpus Rex]

24. I'm a travelin' man, made a lotta stops...

No, wait — that wasn't me.

[Bunny]

17. Just my barbells.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

18. Oh yes, my dear Bertha...

I sure do: my wedding ring.

43 years, and it's part of me, almost literally.

It only comes off if I'm having surgery, or some such.

This ring will come off at my death, so my children can have it.

It's "me."

:hug:

[lizziegrace]

20. Two things

a cluster charm on a chain I got when I was in HS from my parents. Heart, anchor and cross for Faith Hope and Love. I always wear it unless it's totally not suited to what I'm wearing.

The second is a claddagh ring. It has a woven band and unless you look closely, it's hard to tell what it is. I wear it all the time and make my own statement with it. ;)

[AlCzervik]

21. no.

[Dogtown]

23. Understand perfectly, BV

middle joint of my right pinkie, I wear a size 5 wedding band.

It was my mother's, and my 1st wife's (she graciously returned it after the divorce).



I suppose I self-define based on patterns of rejection!

:rofl: :cry: :rofl:

[grasswire]

25. yep

A silver bracelet from Colonial Williamsburg. I was there at a very low time in my life, and a friend bought and gave it to me to remind me of my "sterling" value. That and a small Civil War medal from an ancestor gave me courage through some ugly times. I don't wear them so much any more. But they are "me".

[raccoon]

26. My glasses. I feel naked without them. Plus I need a guide dog without them. nt

[Shell Beau]

28. My wedding band!!

[Rhythm]

29. My silver labrys necklace...

About 22 years ago, the gal i was dating gave me a silver labrys necklace as a birthday present. I loved it, but i lost it a few years later.

About 5 years ago, i found one similar to it, and purchased it. It rarely leaves my neck, and is just something that is just 'me'.

~*~*~*~*~

The other thing that i would have said was a permanent fixture was my rubber "ThinkBlue" bracelet (bearing the dates of the 2006 mid-term and the 2008 general elections), which i purchased not long after the 2004 election (i bought 100 of them, and gave them all away save the one i wore). With the resounding success of this passed GE, i have retired that bracelet to the bottom drawer of my jewelry box.