Had great fun last week with my theatre students: I designate one day for them to spend the whole day in clothes they don’t habitually wear. – out of their usual style. This means they wear make up if they don’t usually and vice versa. If they wear jeans down below their bottoms, they have to wear something smart and high-waisted. Always wear bright colours? Wear some sombre ones. No parting in the hair? Put one in. Always neat and tidy? Find out what it is to wear unironed scruffy clothes for a change. It can be extremely liberating to come out of our own style for a day – people change towards us or not at all – we become clearer about how over concerned we can be on how other people see us. I say ‘we’ because i too join in with this. This year i favoured the biker chick image, the year before the pretty patterned dress with heels. I would put some photos up but the web blog is refusing this at the moment, so you’ll have to imagine. And try it for your self and let me know how you get alexpen@onetel.com It can be extremely discombobulating – not all my students enjoy the experience and look positively miserable without their usual clothes to hang onto, to shield themselves from the world. Our personal confidence is often tied in to our ‘image’ when we’re 19……however if we inhibit our reaction, and direct ourselves all things are possible!