On one hand, you have to expect to draw some attention when you leave the house looking like this.

On the other: am I really the most interesting thing these people have seen? This is a large, cosmopolitan city with plenty of stylish people, not some backwater like Christchurch. Even there, we had plenty of alternative types.

Trying to figure out whether these people are terminally beige, or whether I've really changed so wildly.