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On the contrary: most people in the world are ignorant, useless wastes of your time. One SHOULD cut them out of influencing you and taking up your attention. If you can choose to optimize yourself for interacting with the average mathematician or interacting with the average person, you should choose the mathematician.
But in any case: who said anything about cutting off? What exactly are you picturing here? Some sort of outfit that renders one invisible to anyone but bronies? That's not how clothing works, except in extreme examples.
People I value won't care if I have a non-standard hairstyle or wear clothing that doesn't fit well, I used to think. After cutting my hair and dressing better, I found that this is not the case.
To be clear, I think weird but fancy is great with the right audience. But being unable or not very good at presenting a non-weird image is a bad mistake. I underestimated how strong an image I projected to non-nerdy people. I think many other nerdy people underestimate the strength of the image as well.
I think there a difference between wearing clothing that just doesn't fit well and wearing the kind of weird clothing that can make a positive impression.
Wearing Hawaii shirts for example is weird but something that people who consider themselves open minded but don't consider themselves as nerds can see as cool.
I personally make the weird clothing choice of walking around in Vibriam Fivefinger shoes. In contrast to cutting myself off from other people they invite interest and people start conversation with me to ask me about them that they wouldn't start otherwise.