People looking so normal it's weird outside the Lady Gaga concert.

Purple leopard-print leggings won’t make you stand out at Verizon Center on Thursday night, where hundreds of leotards, high heels, and taffeta mini-dresses have gathered to see their high priestess, Lady Gaga, take the stage. Sequins are standard. Face paint par for the course. Indeed, the only way to make a fashion statement at a Lady Gaga concert is with some faded jeans and a pair of loafers.

Diana Buitrago and Chris Garcia, high-school students from Manassas, are among the plain janes in attendance. “I’m shy,” says Buitrago, whose black sweatshirt and ponytail look utterly foreign among all the feathers and face paint. “It’s just not me.”

Garcia says he considered wearing a special t-shirt but decided against it. “It was too revealing,” he says, standing a few feet away from a young woman in black underwear, shredded stockings, and stilettos. Garcia is enjoying the festivities but feels a bit of judgment from his colorfully attired concert-goers. “Like we’re not as big of fans as they are,” he sniffs.

“We’re just wearing Nike and Northface,” adds Buitrago, while a young man in cigarette pants and gold stilettos teeters by. “And we’re the outcasts.”

Rachel and Angus McDonald also look out of place in jeans, sneakers, and coats straight out of an L.L. Bean catalogue. Rachel did have a more festive ensemble in mind but was deterred by weather. “It’s cold and I was going to be standing here a long time,” she explains. “I thought sneakers were a better option.”

Angus says he never considered more flamboyant attire. “For one thing, I don’t have anything to dress up in,” he says.

Rachel admits to feeling a pang of regret at not opting for a bit of pizzazz. “When she was coming up the escalator on the Metro,” says Angus, “I saw a look of second thoughts.”

Tyler Bowders, a 17-year-old from Waynesborough, Pa., is attending his first concert tonight and doesn’t care that his black hoodie and wire-rim glasses lack the flash some of his fellow concert attendees. He remains focused on his objective: seeing his idol on the stage. “I know it will be something I’ve never seen before,” he says. “I can’t even imagine what it’s going to be like.”