English is not my first language and I find it very frustrating when people nitpick on words. The first year of my fashion studies was (more or less) devoted to the meaning of the word 'fashion', but I still manage to understand what people mean by using it.
What I meant was statement in the sense of fashion[1], which is the connotation of your clothes, 'reavealing information' as you put it. But if you are deliberately buying geeky t-shirt or 'easy' clothes, you are still making a conscious statement, for example "I'm a geek" and "I prefer comfort over fit". In the event that the selection of your clothes is not deliberate, there's still the connotation of them. For example, with 'easy' clothes some may look at you as a slob, while others sees you as laid back.
While you can be outside of the 'fashion system', your clothes still have meaning, to you and to others. If you want to read a proper simile regarding fashion, i.e. not with http headers, I can (almost) recommend the works of Roland Barthes [2].
What I meant was statement in the sense of fashion[1], which is the connotation of your clothes, 'reavealing information' as you put it. But if you are deliberately buying geeky t-shirt or 'easy' clothes, you are still making a conscious statement, for example "I'm a geek" and "I prefer comfort over fit". In the event that the selection of your clothes is not deliberate, there's still the connotation of them. For example, with 'easy' clothes some may look at you as a slob, while others sees you as laid back.
While you can be outside of the 'fashion system', your clothes still have meaning, to you and to others. If you want to read a proper simile regarding fashion, i.e. not with http headers, I can (almost) recommend the works of Roland Barthes [2].
[1] http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_561533193/fashion_statemen... [2] http://books.google.com/books?q=roland+barthes+fashion