About lack of interest in clothes and fashion.

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I love clothes and sometimes have perseverated on them. But I am very artistically and aesthetically-inclined. I'm not interested in what's popular in fashion, I have certain specific tastes of my own. Sometimes those are in fashion, sometimes they are not. I love pretty things and I love color. I wear what I like, and often I end up feeling it's not sufficiently "geeky" for my "geeky" friends, just like how I used to be teased for dressing "weird" in high school. I try to apply my artistic and aesthetic obsessions into every aspect of life I can, including how I dress.

I like to shop, but I normally only like to shop with my Mother and that's because she and I shop in similar ways. I love looking through the racks(haha, my son does too. he's only 26 months, though. but he fights to touch the clothes)
It's really relaxing to me, though I could do without the other people.

I've never quite understood the "Does this look good on me?" thing. Because well, what does it matter what someone else thinks of what you're wearing? If you like the way it feels/looks, then get it...if you don't, then don't.

I won't get something if I don't like the way it feels/looks, then I won't get it no matter how great someone is telling me it looks. It doesn't matter if you like it, I have to like it.
It's not just clothes shopping I like, though. I love going to bookstores.
Though, I only have one within walking distance right now and that's Border's. Well, that's not true, there's a Barne's and Noble's across the street. But, I don't like that particular space...so I go to Border's. I can spend hours at a time in there...

edit-I forgot to add that sometimes shopping does overwhelm me, even though I enjoy it. I've been sent into anxiety attacks while shopping and sometimes I get horribly irritable.

I like fashion, but I don't have the confidence to wear trendy s**t.

I completely agree (with the OP). I just don't care. Never have. I suppose I have my own "style", if that's what you want to call it. Mostly I buy clothes from the little boys section, because it's cheaper, and fits me (personality-wise) better. Being trendy is one of the many things that has always baffled me. I look at those people and see absolutely nothing, because they look like most everybody else. I notice the things that set people apart from the others.

I really don't understand why people spend so much energy into trying to look the same, or do what they think they're supposed to do, beauty-wise. Just be yourself, whatever that means to you. That's so much more beautiful. I immediately feel very uncomfortable around anybody that appears trendy. Maybe that's unfair, but it's just a reaction I guess.

Not only do I just wear what I want, but sometimes I actually influenced fashion trends, especially back when I was in High School.

For example, there was this vest that I used to wear. Everything about it screams "fisherman", as it had a great number of pockets (which I enjoyed because I had alot of stuff to haul around), and indeed by sophomore year of HS, "The Vest" had a reputation of its own, including concepts that "wearing it gave you special powers" and the like. Other people in the school started wearing vests (although said people wore stuff that looked more like they were shopping at Hollister for it).

The other "coincidence" that I noticed is that, when I was in middle school, I used to wear these huge sunglasses, and received alot of ridicule for them, although today I see people wearing their own "huge shades" alot (although I'm a guy and the "large sunglasses" trend is largely among women)

As for my own wardrobe, I just wear T-shirts from www.computergear.com, $20 jeans from sears (which I didn't even buy), and shoes that are so worn out that the sole could come off at any time. There's also this jacket I got at college that is VERY comfortable.