I was going for crazy and achieved "ethnic" instead.

[elionwyr]

So yesterday I wrote about my chosen winter garb, and y'all were very kind in your reactions. Which was very much appreciated, as I've been more full of 'gads I should wear make-up like other girls do.' I'm wearing nary a bit of it in that photo and none of you seem to mind. Thank you. :)

Annnyway...

On the bus ride home tonight, a woman went to the effort of rising out of her seat and walking over to me to ask me what kind of coat I was wearing.

"It's a pirate coat."

"Oh. So it's Romanian?"

O_o

"Um. No. I had the fabric and I asked a friend to make me this coat."

"Oh." *pause* "So why do you call it a pirate coat?"

"..Because it was made from a pirate coat pattern."

"....Oh."

(Clearly, I need to come up with much more clever responses.)
(Or just learn how to lie. "Why, yes. I come from a proud tradition of landlocked Romanian pirates. Very frustrated chaps, they were.")