I am currently buzzing on having a cute new outfit. Yes, I went clothes shopping.
There have been a lot of sales on, end of summer stock etc. I keep passing shops and ogling the wares. However, I've also been having a bit of negative body image combined with cost of travel stuff, which has turned me off shopping. I mentioned it to Beau and he was like, you're being silly. You can have some new stuff. He was telling me to shop!
So, I weighed myself on Sunday and was not horrified. That's always a good way to start. Sadly, I didn't have anyone to go shopping with either. I prefer to shop with someone else, having another pair of eyes is good. As it was, it was just me and the store mirrors. Brrrr.
As usual I mostly bought work clothes. I feel least guilty about buying work clothes as they have a definite use. Plus, they are definitely nice enough to wear out with friends too. I also bought a couple of crop tops/sports bras. I went out with that as mission. As Beau and I are trying to have a minimum amount of clothing for doing the Way of St James, I need underwear that I can wash and dry overnight (they reckon 3 sets of underwear and socks, one to wear, one to wash and one spare). I'm lucky in that I don't need serious sports bras, so these are perfect. Plus, they are black, so with plain black boyshorts, I have make-shift bikini if necessary.
I also bought something completely frivolous and unlike me. I bought a dress. I bought a *yellow* dress.
Seriously, how often do women wear dresses nowadays? Not very. Weddings and maybe special dances (I wore a dress to a Swing event and also to a burlesque night). I brought a red summery dress with me from NZ, I'd worn it to 3 weddings. I've since worn it to 2 other weddings (the only double-ups at any of these weddings were me and Beau, so yeah). I also wore it to the previously mentioned burlesque night. That is actually an incredible amount of wear for a dress. I don't think I've ever worn any other dress as often as that. It was a weird combination of large number of weddings and noone I knew going to any more than one of them (except for Beau).
Yup, not only do you hardly ever get reasons to wear a dress, it kinda isn't ok to be seen more than once in the same one. WTF? I *know*. I mean, it's not a sin... but people would notice! Seriously, I know I'm not the only one this affects.
Anyhoo, the red dress is due for retirement. It's looking worn. However, I already have a new dress. My gorgeous silk swing dress that Neid made for me. So, I don't need a new dress and I definitely did not go out looking for one, especially not a yellow one.
You know how there is an old myth that red-heads are not to wear pink, well, Giffy's are not to wear yellow. It makes them look sallow. Or so I believed. delichan told me a while ago that she thought I could carry yellow and I put on my Official Thai King Supporting Yellow Shirt, teased my hair to maximum volume and did a silly photo shoot. I actually looked quite good.
So, while cruising the sale racks I came across a ruffly, light mustard yellow dress in a size 12 (NZ and UK sizing are basically equivalent, some people reckon UK is slightly larger, I don't). I was pretty sure it wouldn't fit (non-stretch) and wouldn't suit, but I thought it'd be a laugh. It's wasn't a laugh it was a *grin*. It fit, it suited and it was only €15 (I don't know what original price was, Topshop so over €60 I'd say). Later on in the day I realised it will actually be perfect to wear to a(nother) wedding I have in NZ. I mean, I could wear my swing dress but...
Anyhoo, for those of you who *need* to see such things, I found a couple of pics of it online. Here is one with a much skinnier model than me wearing it. Here is one where all the colour seems to have faded away.
BTW for those of us who believe in wearing outfits more than once (Renew, Reuse, Recycle), it is nothing compared to the fashion *crime* of being in the *same* outfit as someone else. I blame cameras and the internet.
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