Poetic fashion

I am going to the first installment of my poetry course tomorrow. I just found myself wondering what to wear so I look all poetic, which probably just disqualified me for the art. Experience tells me that the poets, or all the creative writing sorts, are the very least “artistically” dressed. They’re too sort of lost in a world of symbolism and metaphor to notice, or maybe too absorbed in expressing what they want to say in other (non-visual) ways to care about what their clothes are saying (who was it who said “if I don’t want to listen to you, why would I want to listen to your sweater”, or something like it? - could I market that on a t-shirt?). They’ll probably all be sitting there in the most comfortable outfit they have, because who wants to be distracted by stupid (ie non-functional, irritating or superfluous) articles of clothing, with their sneakers on.