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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Unfair_Structure_514 on 2025-11-28 08:31:54+00:00.
I work at this place since May, so I'm pretty new. I'm a goth and my fashion sense is a bit eccentric. Not in the way that I wear white face paint and toupee my hair but in the "always overdressed, frills and bows all day and never wears pants" way. Say Victorian gothic. Also completely dressed in black with maybe a few color accents when I feel like it. At work I follow the dress code; boring, tasteless plain clothing ordered from SHEIN in the happy colors brown and beige. No offense but it feels horrid wearing them. Like SpongeBob in that episode where he's "normal". I know it may sound edgy but wearing plain clothes has always been uncomfortable to me. My coworkers decided on a Christmas dinner, which would take place in a small group of 9-10 people at a restaurant in town. Because it's a private meeting and everyone said they'd wear their "normal pretty clothes" (their words, not mine) I decided to wear mine as well. Mind you, I don't have any normal clothes besides my few pieces that I wear at work, so I wouldn't even have fancy non-black/non-goth attire.
I decided to go for a Christmas black/red combination, picking a black blouse, fluffy skirt and red bolero which fit the little red ribbon I put in my hair. Light makeup without lipstick because eating and black ballerinas.
At the restaurant everyone wore something casual. Fuck. Literally jeans, maybe a pretty jacket but that's it. I was sticking out very badly. My coworkers were shocked when they saw me, looked at each other in a telling way, one even laughing and going "Okaaaay, guess OP really takes this seriously!".
Now add whispering after I left for the restroom and quick stopping of whispering when they noticed me coming back.
Oh welp, this place doesn't pay that well anyways.
TL;DR: Wore goth fashion to a work related Christmas dinner, unintentionally became a hot topic