At the beginning of tutorial this week we were about 15 minutes into class and Louise told us to turn around on our chairs facing the back wall. None of us had any clue what on earth was about to occur or what Louise was going to make us do. She then said “I want you to write down what I am wearing today.” Everyone started talking and giggling amongst themselves, implying the idea that they had no idea; including myself. We spent about 2 minutes facing the back wall trying to hard to recall what Louise was wearing. I was pretty sure it was a green cardigan, black pants and her curly hair pulled up with a big clip – feeling somewhat confident I could have the correct answer. As we all turned around to see if our judgements were correct, everyone started laughing.

Louise was wearing a grey sparkly spotty cardigan with grey pants and brown shoes, accessorised with a blue scarf. I was so wrong. I must have gotten the ‘green’ idea from the wall behind where Louise was standing which was vibrant green and clearly that was the only thing that stuck in my head.

This was a perfect noticing exercise as we clearly all just walked in without even taking any notice what so ever of Louise’s appearance. This was in no way on purpose it’s just something you don’t necessarily think about noticing. The only reason I would ever take note on what someone is wearing is if I’ve seen the clothing before, if they look exceptionally nice compared to usual, or if I really like an item of clothing they are wearing and would then ask them where it is from.

This exercise was an eye opening experience as now it is now going to be a conscious thing for me to notice what people are wearing.

Like Mason said in the reading, I’m going to ‘set myself’ the task and do it. I’m going to set myself the task of noticing things around me more in different environments and locations.