Daily Outfit and Style Thoughts: 09.20.09
Today’s outfit is a quickie. I’m wearing black ballet flats, 3-tone gray and black socks, and a black microfiber dress with a v-neck and a drapey knee length skirt. It would have liked jewelry, but I’m the world’s lazyist fashionista and so I chose an extra ten minutes of sleep over accessorizing, thinking I still had accessories in my bag. This was, of course, accessory fail, since all I had was an arm full of jelly-bracelets. (Trying to come off as a mature office guardian with an arm full of jelly bracelets is so not happening, so I decided no accessories, and I’d just look half finished and try to rock it confidently.)
Over the weekend I got my brows waxed, which led me to today’s contemplation…
Fashion and beauty and such are for me. I might choose an outfit based on where I’m wearing it and what’s appropriate (later this week there will be ruminations on that and my Joan Holloway proportioned bosom…) but everything I wear, and every little beauty ritual I do is ultimately for the purpose of making me feel better. I choose colors and fabrics based on how they feel to the touch and how they’re going to make me feel over the course of the day. Colors are based on how much I want to look at them and how being in them makes me feel as how they look on me.
This is probably a huge part of my reduction in black clothes. Sure it’s a practical color, easy to dress around, but it always makes me feel a little draggy during the day…and a little like I’m trying to hide in the background. It’s interesting (though not entirely unexpected) that I’ve changed so much about a color.
Hopefully later this week there will be a nail polish review. I gave in and acquired Ballet Slippers (Essie’s famous shade) and plan on layering it with Marshmallow, a la Devil Wears Prada to replicate a little fashion moment there.
<3,
Vanille
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