What Not To Wear...?

Question: Why is it that I feel like I'm not taken seriously, because of the clothes I wear?

I watch "What Not To Wear", and while most of the people they "fix" are generally adults and, well, frumpy, I am not quite an adult nor am I frumpy. In fact, I look generously younger than my age (20), and most of the time people think I'm around 17-18 years old.

So I guess what I'm trying to say is, I watch that show and kiiiind of apply it to the clothes I wear. I mean, I don't take it seriously and go out and follow the "rules" to a T, I don't obsess about other peoples clothes or anything like that.

The other point i should make is that I am really interested in Fashion. Ever since I was a little girl, I have loved... and I mean LOVED dressing up. I can recall many times that my mom spanked me for getting into her makeup. (Don't worry, I deserved it. She warned me many, many times that she would spank me if I got into her makeup again. I kept testing the limits.) I drew on the brand new white carpet with my mom's "fashionable" bright pink coming-out-of-the-80s-barely-in-the-nineties lipstick. I was 2 or 3 years old. IN MY DEFENSE: I remember it (because I was spanked... Ironically), and I was drawing lines in the carpet trying to draw my family.

I remember really random things from my past. Per contra, I can never remember math or any other simple task I'm asked to do.

The point I'm trying to make is: A lot of the time, I get criticized about how I'm "fashionable". I get teased that I have no brain, just fashion. Just looks. And it drives me crazy. JUST BECAUSE I'M A FAKE BLONDE, AND I LIKE TO DRESS UP AND DO MY MAKEUP AND *SOMETIMES* TREAT MYSELF TO FAKE EYELASHES, DOES NOT MEAN I'M AN IDIOT. I do admit I make quite the fabulous airhead sometimes. ;)