Daily Outfit and Style Thoughts: 10.19.09
Today’s outfit is “hipster casual pretending to be business Monday.” Grey scoop neck t-shirt, black small-wale corduroys, red satin Converse One-Star ballet slippers. Two black satin headbands, Tiffany key and bejeweled gun-metal angel wing necklaces, and heavy men’s watch.
And of course, the hammered silver ring I never take off that I ordered from One of a Kind in Israel. (Yes mine is the Gam Ze Yaavor ring, which makes a lot of sense if you know me.)
My fingernails are Essie’s “Marshmallow” although it’s taken on a pink tint from my hair, which really irritates me, and I keep thinking there must be a way to prevent that.
I’m wearing BPAL’s Creepy, the original version, which has mellowed nicely into an adult foody scent that isn’t anything like the pre-25 of myself wearing it before that I remember.
So, all this sartorial contemplating is mostly for the benefit of the fact that I have a conference on Friday and Saturday. I’m support staff, which means I need to blend into the background, look professional, and somehow maintain my own personality in my clothes. It feels like a huge challenge.
In part because it’s been a very long time since I’ve really had to do that. The law firm had a dress code, which was pretty easy (if boring) to adhere to. Generally it meant a black skirt and some sort of collared shirt. The university has its own sort of dress-code, for which I am generally vastly overdressed (I prefer dresses to khakis in general).
So…I’m thinking black skirt and funky shoes…
