Don’t most people develop a style of dress to attract a certain “wanted” attention? That is, aside from when we’re being playful and dress in outlandish costumes to attract a certain amount of (expected) shock and even ridicule, don’t most people ordinarily dress in styles that flatter them in some way? (I’m speaking of fashion apart from the utility function of clothing: protection from the elements; uniforms that identify membership in a particular organization, or even formal styles that identify one as a member of a certain class or caste in society.)
Do you enjoy provoking ridicule and shock on a daily basis? Because this seems not to be a “common” style where you live now, or is it? When I was young I used to have a pair of bell-bottom jeans that could have been retired years earlier because they were simply worn out. But I played with patches. I patched the seat of those pants with a bright red homemade patch; I had a bright orange and yellow “sun” patch on one thigh, and a “What, me worry?” homemade embroidered patch pocket on the other thigh. In between and all around I had green, blue, purple and other colored patches where various seams had ripped out or threatened to. All of them were irregularly shaped and hemmed and hand-sewn (by me) to suit my peculiar taste.
However, in the early 1970s, those hardly stood out. I was just “part of the crowd” with those jeans, except for the peculiarity of some of the work and the fact that I did it myself and had that “pride of ownership”, there was nothing special about those pants. I wore them with generally oversized t-shirts and sweaters, or chambray, and looked… like most other middle-class kids in my class.
I wouldn’t wear clothing like that now except to play-act about “looking like someone I’m not”.
There are all kinds of ways to dress to attract all kinds of attention. “Why dress deliberately to attract unwanted attention?” is the question that I’d ask back to you.