Daily Outfit 1/30/10
FYI: It was very bright and very cold outside, hence the slightly grumpy face.
Here we have: Target tank-dress (secret: it’s actually a maternity tank…which apparently means super long…), American Apparel t-shirt-dress-thing (from Buffalo Exchange, destroyed by your’s truly), and wrap-thingy also from BX. The boots, of course – you may have noticed they’re getting a ridiculous amount of wear lately! – are my Fluevog engineer boots.
Anyways, I was trying something different here. I realized that I think a large part of my uncomfortableness with wearing shorter (as in, shorter than knee length!) skirts/dresses came from an uncomfortableness with my body. When I started putting on more weight in my hips/butt/thighs, it was a lot easier to just wear poofy knee-length skirts than feel insecure wearing tight or short skirts.
My solution is, obviously, to just get over it.
(I have an even grouchier face here. I’m pretty sure Matt was sassin’ me.)
See! It’s tight, under there. Not sure if it counts since I wore a wrap over it. But to be fair, I would have been freezing my ass of without the wrap. Which makes it count as progress, in my book.
ANYWAYS. I wore this to go the Rock N Swap on Saturday night, with Amanda. It was super busy (and super loud…I’m such an old lady!). We ran into Tolly, Nikki, and Indiana too. It was a TON of fun though, cold and loudness notwithstanding. Among other things, I ended up with a white skirt and t-shirt (to be dyed), very grandma-esque crocheted lace sweater (which is also being dyed and hacked up to boot), a denim jacket/blazer, a tank-dress, and something that I think is a nightie-coverup (it’s Anna Sui for Victoria’s Secret), but I plan on wearing it in outfits anyways. That’s how I roll.
PS: Check out my guest post over at Steff Metal! And Lisa, from the Sassy Minx, wrote a bit about me yesterday too!
I looooove this outfit on you, girl! Much better (frankly) than the poofy skirts to hide everything. You’ve got a great shape and you definitely should show it off. More, more, more! <3
.-= Jaka Merriman´s last blog ..One Vacation to the Next =-.
This outfit is fantabulous! You look great <3
.-= Rachael´s last blog ..Tasty Tuesday: Vegetable Soup =-.
That looks great. I love the purple under the black
.-= Retro Chick´s last blog ..A Few of my Favourite Things =-.
Oh, thank you Jaka, you’re making me blush! Rachael & Retro Chick, glad you like it as well
I can’t wait to see what you do with the stuff you grabbed! And I had so much fun too – and I love me some loud music, and it was loud even for me
I also can’t wait to:
a) hang out again!
b) deliver you my polka dotted dress for your magic needle and thread touch!
.-= Amanda´s last blog ..I have an important meeting in like twenty minutes…. =-.
Jaka’s right! Absolutely curvalicious. And very kickass. =D
Amanda – I’ll send you a DM/email about maybe getting together this weekend!
Thank you Alicia <3
Oh goodness, I LOVE what you’ve done with that black top! It looks like it was made to be cut like that. What sort of fabric is is made of?
And I agree with the previous comments about the more form-hugging dresses—you’ve got nothing to hide and everything to show off!
Alice – it’s an American Apparel top…I think it’s a cotton lycra blend? I started by trying to do the t-shirt shredding, a la Outsapop Trashion – http://www.outsapop.com – but it didn’t work out very well (I’m thinking maybe because of the lycra? I’ll try it again on a not-lycra-blend! & thank you for the kind words dear!!