I did get dressed yesterday. I just wasn't up for photographing it. Mostly because my feet hurt. I think I might get rid of those shoes - my shorter pair of clear heels. But then again, I might just need to wear socks/tights with them. I'm finding that clear shoes are much, much more wearable that way. Just a tip. For all of you who wear clear shoes. ;)
Anywho, I called yesterday's outfit "Wrong Side of the Tracks". Clear shoes, skinny pants, a mesh shirt over a t-shirt, my puffy blue faux fur coat. It was rad in theory. But, uncomfortable and well, I felt kind of fat. Mostly, though - it was high maintenance. The discomfort of the shoes, the way the mesh shirt was bunching around my hips, the way I had to keep hiking up the coat sleeves to feel satisfied that the overall look of the coat wasn't TOO puffy. Bleh.
(A favorite Versace dress from the 90's)
I was thinking a little bit ago, about how my style is pretty simple. Hey, don't laugh. It really just is - I do love texture and color, but as I think I've said before, I prefer to have it be "all of a piece", and I don't want it to distract me from more important tasks at hand. And yes. I love outrageousness. But it does make sense. In its own way. (And maybe only I know that is sometimes. ;)
All that said, I DID get dressed TODAY and took PICS...
In one of my FAVORITE garments of all time - you've perhaps seen it before, I had it repaired - my 60's homemade (not by me - thrifted it that way) tent dress. If I had the pattern (I should find it, for real), I would have it made in a gazillion cotton fabrics. This one, though - a surfer/volcano pattern of all things - rules. And it was cold out, so I wore my tights. And yesterday was too hard on my feet, so I work my Converse Jack Purcell-looking flats (which came with a bow that I took off).
I love the neck. I don't love my messy room.
And then - and THEN - I knew I needed a jacket, so I looked in my closet, and something possessed me, and I pulled this out:
No, it doesn't match or go with my dress. AND I LIKE IT. :) I am not following my own rules today, and I don't care. Dress: $6. Shoes: $10. Versus by Versace coat (one of two designer-ish things I own, and I'm so glad I do): $100. (Perhaps I shared the story with of how I got this coat with you. It's convoluted and ridiculous....)
One of my students says to me today, "Ms. Mitchell, you look short."
Response: "I AM short."
:)
P.S. I cut my own hair today. I miss Mary and her barbershop skills.
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