Dressing the Same Way Through Different Versions of Yourself
I’ve changed more than I like to admit.
Not all at once — just slowly enough that I didn’t notice until I looked back. Different priorities. Different fears. Different ideas of what mattered and what didn’t. If I lined up all the versions of myself from the last few years, they wouldn’t agree on much.
I’ve been dressing the same way through all of it.
There was a version of me who thought this meant I was stuck. That if my clothes didn’t evolve, maybe I wasn’t moving forward either. I used to worry about that — whether I was supposed to look different by now.
But at some point, I stopped questioning it.
I realized my clothes weren’t frozen in time. They were just consistent. They didn’t belong to a phase; they belonged to me. And while everything else kept shifting, that consistency became something I leaned on more than I expected.
I wore the same kind of hoodie when I was figuring things out as when I thought I had. The same neutral tones on days when I felt optimistic and on days when I felt heavy. Not because I lacked imagination, but because those pieces didn’t interfere with who I was becoming.
Each version of me needed something different from life, but none of them needed clothes that asked questions. None of them wanted to perform growth or signal change. Getting dressed the same way became a quiet constant — a way of saying, “You don’t have to reinvent everything at once.”
Some people mark transitions with new wardrobes. I never did. My changes happened internally, and my clothes stayed where they were. Familiar. Uncomplicated. Reliable in a way that felt grounding when everything else felt uncertain.
Over time, I stopped buying things for the person I might become. I started choosing pieces that could follow me no matter who I turned into. That’s when brands like G59 Merch started to make sense to me — not as an identity, but as something adaptable. Something that didn’t need to be updated every time I did.
The funny thing is, wearing the same kind of clothes through different versions of yourself doesn’t mean you’re unchanged. It means you’ve found something that doesn’t need to be redefined every time your life shifts direction.
I don’t dress the same way because I’m holding on to the past.
I dress the same way because it lets me move forward without friction.
Some days, that’s enough.
