Seasons Change naval gazing
April 24, 2013
The change of the seasons, and some wonderful threads here today are spurning my own naval gazing for a moment. My style has changed a lot this past season, thanks to your encouragement and suggestions. I've discovered color, I know how to tell whether my clothes fit, and I've experimented a lot.
However, all winter long, I've been enjoying this wonderful world of bright colors on this island of YLF. Any time I've ventured out in public, I've been well-hidden inside my below-knee-length puffer, which is brown. Now that the time to ditch the coat is approaching, I feel really unsure of myself in bright colors. Yes, I love them, but am I really ready to go into public with them? Will people think I'm weird? (As if they don't already, I know. It's hard not to be weird when you walk around with five kids). Do I really have the personality to wear such attention-getting clothes? I'm NOT dramatic in real life (or at least, I try not to act dramatic... I try to be very laid back).
That to say, I have no idea where my style is going. I don't know who I am style-wise, nor who I want to be, nor where I'm going. Somehow I'm okay with this not knowing when I can hide behind a brown coat. But now my experimentation will be in front of the entire world. It makes me want to retreat and hide in safe little frump-ville.
Okay. Enough for tonight. If you actually read this, you're a saint. This is just me, musing at a keyboard.
Do you ever second-guess your style? Does your public style and your ylf style differ? Or your public and private style?
However, all winter long, I've been enjoying this wonderful world of bright colors on this island of YLF. Any time I've ventured out in public, I've been well-hidden inside my below-knee-length puffer, which is brown. Now that the time to ditch the coat is approaching, I feel really unsure of myself in bright colors. Yes, I love them, but am I really ready to go into public with them? Will people think I'm weird? (As if they don't already, I know. It's hard not to be weird when you walk around with five kids). Do I really have the personality to wear such attention-getting clothes? I'm NOT dramatic in real life (or at least, I try not to act dramatic... I try to be very laid back).
That to say, I have no idea where my style is going. I don't know who I am style-wise, nor who I want to be, nor where I'm going. Somehow I'm okay with this not knowing when I can hide behind a brown coat. But now my experimentation will be in front of the entire world. It makes me want to retreat and hide in safe little frump-ville.
Okay. Enough for tonight. If you actually read this, you're a saint. This is just me, musing at a keyboard.
Do you ever second-guess your style? Does your public style and your ylf style differ? Or your public and private style?
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