Today's outfit: Light blue polo, chocolate-brown midi skirt, patterned scarf (belt), deep purple vintage-style hat. Barefoot! Hair: down, straight, and natural.
So I'm thinking I need to make Anna work on her camera angles. She was laughing at me as we were taking these photos because I always choose to stand in the same spot, but she always uses the same angles, so the pictures are kinda boring.
This skirt makes me happy. It's long, knee-length, and flowy, and it floats when I twirl or walk down the stairs. I got it last year at Goodwill when I first started working up the courage to wear skirts rather than skinny jeans, and it's become one of my favorite items in my closet. It matches every top I own, is very vintage, and makes me feel like a princess. On top of that, it's the color of chocolate. (Which, granted, makes me rather hungry sometimes, but who doesn't like to be a little hungry for chocolate occasionally?)
Hand-me-down belt. It came with a skirt (which I love) but I don't actually wear them together. I wore them as a matching set once, as an early experiment with mixing patterns that went pretty well (red-striped button-up, patterned skirt, matching patterned belt tied in a preppy little bow around my ponytail), but for the most part I prefer to keep them seperate. Maybe I'll wear the skirt to youth group tomorrow.
Maybe I'll just wear cut-offs and a tee. I haven't worn cut-offs in about two months.
And now we come to my favorite part of today's outfit -- this fabulous hat I picked up at Plato's Closet a few weeks ago.
Last night as I was putting together today's outfit, I felt rather disappointed with it. I had the polo, the skirt, the belt, and it was cute, but it just seemed rather sad. You've seen sad outfits before -- those boring, monochromatic ones people wear when they're feeling tired of life, want to be invisible, and slouch? (Not the monochromatic isn't cool -- it can be a really fun, unique, edgy style, when the person wearing it has a little spunk in their step, rather than some slouch in their shoulders.) Well, that's what this outfit felt like. Tired, sad, boring. So I grabbed this hat and plunked it down on top of the old retired lamp-stand that I use to hang up my outfits, and voila! the outfit changed. It stood up a little straighter, smiled a little brighter, and it's cheeks glowed.
And that's how I feel in this outfit: spunky, cheerful, blushingly beautiful. I feel like Caroline Dester from "Enchanted April".
Which is not a bad thing.
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