You’re simply not allowed to step outside certain boundaries, and if you do, you’ll suffer for it.  In retrospect, I wonder why I couldn’t observe that the vest was sartorially incorrect for myself.  But I guess that’s the very quality that made me not a popular kid — I couldn’t figure out what to do to fit in.  Because believe me, I wanted to.  I wanted to be the biggest conformist on the planet, but I could never seem to get it right. 