I have a "musician" style I guess (because that's what I do in the evenings). Guess it's kinda Steve Tyler / Hendrix / rock'n'roll meets more modern day fashions.

I get the ASOS newsletter too though, and that has all of the designer catwalk shows, and I often piece together outfit ideas based on those kind of things, but with my own edge. Right now, my fingernails are painted gold from my gig last night. You may think "what a cockhole", but you have NO idea how many people opened me asking about them last night. Good shit

Haha, I didn't know if people would understand what I was on about.

I dress like a scruffy hobo, I'm not even joking most of my clothes are american vintage and tattered or bought of ebay but items that I've collected over the years and love to pieces, I also wear skinny jeans and green trainers and have a large JD belt buckle. I actually have some items that I've worn for 10 years and still love and get complimented on, I guess that's why I like vintage. Could change my look quite easily and it might help with certain types of girls, but I like my style as it is and don't really feel comfortable dressing too smart, it suits me and attracts the kinda girls I tend to go for.

That's great to hear you're so comfortable with what you wear, considering how old the clothes are. Might have to look into vintage clothing myself.

Some people, when they walk into a room, they stand out, and not necessarily because they're flashily dressed as such. It's because their personality - and it's usually a fairly unique personality - is expressed through what they wear, and it's not even necessarily consciously done. I know one guy who wears a cap he found on the street, a long black coat, a hoodie, a t-shirt, a pair of scruffy jeans, with a Zappa-esque goatee and moustache. He looks like an East European art critic living on the street. He also looks different, and so girls are often intrigued by him (unfortunately for them, he's gay).

We all know people like this: there's only one of them in the world. No matter where you go, you'll never find someone just like them.

That's what attracts people: individuality.

But being truly individual has to come, I think, from somewhere inside. It has to be the exterior expression of who you are in your soul. Not so easily done.

I used to do it when I was younger without even realising I was doing it. In my early twenties, I'd wear jewellery, leather trousers, shiny colourful shirts (I spent a lot of time hanging out in Glasgow's rock and metal clubs waaaay back in the day). I had hair halfway down my back. Thing is, I wasn't peacocking. It was just me (these days, I dress more like Ricky Gervais - bootcut jeans, black t-shirt, leather jacket, ie completely normal). Girls came up to me all the time, but I was such a nerd back then I didn't click onto what was going on or even take advantage of it. I was completely clueless.

It's funny the thing girls will find to latch on to in order to start a conversation. Later on, it was my David Baddiel-esque spectacles. Not because they were unusual or different, but they'd ask to try them on. Why? Because it was a way to start a conversation. Did I take advantage of it? Again: nerd. Now I know better.