Iconic. Alice Gregory is a writer living in New York City. Last year, her piece for J. Crew magazine brought a new word into my reasoning for wearing a uniform. She called it 'Iconic. A cheap and easy way to feel famous.' She continues, 'A uniform can be a way of performing maturity or, less charitably, impersonating it. A uniform insinuates the sort of sober priorities that ossify with age, as well as a deliberate past of editing and improving.'
Alice points out that wearing the same outfit everyday is a way of asserting your status as a protagonist. 'This is the reason why characters in picture books never change their clothes: Children — like adults, if they’d only admit it — crave continuity. Adopting the habit of wearing a uniform is not unstylish — this is a classification that no longer applies.'