I made a decision about a week or so ago...
I'm bidding farewell to jeans and hello to skirts and dresses.
Growing up, you would never find me in a skirt or dress unless it was a special occasion. I always wore jeans, tennis shoes and t-shirts that were about a size too big. Even as I got older, I was still wearing jeans but substituted regular shirts for t-shirts and flip flops/flats for tennis shoes.
But now I'm starting to realize that certain types of clothes/colors flatter my body and skin tone, and jeans just don't fall into that category. I'm not a skinny girl; I inherited all my father's Italian genes. And when I wear jeans, every self-conscious thought I have about the lower half of my body runs through my head. Plus, buying jeans is expensive. I'm super short, so even though I buy the "short" or "petite" length, I still have to get them hemmed. Price of jeans + cost to hem = a lot of money for something I don't even enjoy wearing.
I will still keep a pair or two of jeans in my closet in case of an emergency or a trip to a colder place. But I don't expect that to happen too often.
Slowly I will transform my closet...I bought about 6 skirts/dresses last week, and I'm looking forward to buying more.
Oh, the exception to this - for the time being - will be work clothes. Most of my skirts/dresses aren't exactly work-appropriate. So until I start buying work-appropriate clothes, I will continue wearing some of my dress pants but will try to spice them up with cuter tops/accessories.
And if I'm wearing an outfit that I think is super cute, I will try to take pictures and post the outfit on here for everyone - i.e. Terri - to enjoy. That won't happen very often. I tried to update the other day via twitterberry/twitpic, but it never let me upload the pic. Boo.
But for the first cute clothes segment - I present an outfit I threw together for work a couple of weeks ago. I was having one of those "it's 7:15 a.m. and I need to leave for work in 20 minutes...what the hell am I going to wear?" moments. I pulled out a pair of brown dress pants, brown heels, and a cute ruffle top...paired it with a belt (belts seem to be my thing lately), and voila - an instant outfit. I didn't think too much of it until I got to work. I have NEVER had so many compliments about an outfit before. Some quotes: "you were definitely the best dressed girl at staff meeting this morning"; "you always dress cute, but you really stepped up your game today." Of course the rest of the week was a complete letdown in terms of my fashion. How was I going to live up to those compliments?
**note - as you can see in the first picture, pants look hideous on me**
I'm bidding farewell to jeans and hello to skirts and dresses.
Growing up, you would never find me in a skirt or dress unless it was a special occasion. I always wore jeans, tennis shoes and t-shirts that were about a size too big. Even as I got older, I was still wearing jeans but substituted regular shirts for t-shirts and flip flops/flats for tennis shoes.
But now I'm starting to realize that certain types of clothes/colors flatter my body and skin tone, and jeans just don't fall into that category. I'm not a skinny girl; I inherited all my father's Italian genes. And when I wear jeans, every self-conscious thought I have about the lower half of my body runs through my head. Plus, buying jeans is expensive. I'm super short, so even though I buy the "short" or "petite" length, I still have to get them hemmed. Price of jeans + cost to hem = a lot of money for something I don't even enjoy wearing.
I will still keep a pair or two of jeans in my closet in case of an emergency or a trip to a colder place. But I don't expect that to happen too often.
Slowly I will transform my closet...I bought about 6 skirts/dresses last week, and I'm looking forward to buying more.
Oh, the exception to this - for the time being - will be work clothes. Most of my skirts/dresses aren't exactly work-appropriate. So until I start buying work-appropriate clothes, I will continue wearing some of my dress pants but will try to spice them up with cuter tops/accessories.
And if I'm wearing an outfit that I think is super cute, I will try to take pictures and post the outfit on here for everyone - i.e. Terri - to enjoy. That won't happen very often. I tried to update the other day via twitterberry/twitpic, but it never let me upload the pic. Boo.
But for the first cute clothes segment - I present an outfit I threw together for work a couple of weeks ago. I was having one of those "it's 7:15 a.m. and I need to leave for work in 20 minutes...what the hell am I going to wear?" moments. I pulled out a pair of brown dress pants, brown heels, and a cute ruffle top...paired it with a belt (belts seem to be my thing lately), and voila - an instant outfit. I didn't think too much of it until I got to work. I have NEVER had so many compliments about an outfit before. Some quotes: "you were definitely the best dressed girl at staff meeting this morning"; "you always dress cute, but you really stepped up your game today." Of course the rest of the week was a complete letdown in terms of my fashion. How was I going to live up to those compliments?
**note - as you can see in the first picture, pants look hideous on me**
Also, as you can see from the pics above, my hair is getting long and out of control. I have yet to cut it because each time I ask for what I want, the stylists (plural - I never keep the same one) give me the same boring look. But I did get a recommendation from the girl who was blow drying my hair following highlights on Friday; she was describing the exact cut I've been wanting for over a year now. But for now, I've been trying to curl it to give it some life; unfortunately it never seems to last the entire day.
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