Armor / Play / Signal

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The wardrobe framework, built explicitly around how her autism manifests: clothing serves three jobs at once — armor (feel untouchable), play (creative expression), signal (communicate something specific). Silhouette is a mix of hard and soft; palette is a dark base plus one wild card (black, navy, espresso, hunter green — the exact colors of the four high-end bags she owns); acquisition is thrift/vintage-hunter, because buying new in-store is ‘joyless compared to the thrill of the hunt.’ A system for getting dressed that routes around decision-paralysis the same way the knowledge graph routes around the blank page.

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source: Building a rock solid aesthetic and closet (2026-04-08) · extraction: auto (schema v3.1)