What Not to Wear … Downtown
As wives, we invariably reflect on our husbands either positively or negatively. Do you ever visit him at his place of employment? If he works in a professional or business setting, you should not be there wearing leisure-wear.
This restriction challenges me on a daily basis. You see, I visit my husband at his office most days, or at least on the sidewalk outside. We spend his lunch walking. Being busy like you and everyone else these days, it takes discipline not to just show up in whatever.
Hey. If I can get my husband a little bit more respect in the marketplace by dressing nicely (see Proverbs 31:22-23), well, I call that a good reason to go shopping.
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Color Me Simple
I bring my personal color palette with me everywhere I go. Actually, I am my personal color palette. Each color I wear is chosen for how it relates to my own personal coloring and my personality. This keeps my wardrobe simple and coordinated.
“How boring!”, you may be thinking. But I assure you, it is not. My friends never notice that I wear the same colors all the time, until I point it out to them. Admittedly, my kids consider my wardrobe both small and formulaic, however both girls have seen the advantages and adopted their own limited wardrobe color palette.
No longer do I bring home a new article of clothing and wonder whether it will go with anything. When I style in my new pieces, they always go with something and most often they go with everything.
So, there you have it … I just gave you my absolute best fashion and frugal-living and sanity-saving tip.
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Would You Like Another Roll …
Back in “my day” we didn’t want anybody to see that we had rolls. It caused one to feel somehow … fat. These days they’re everywhere.
(A related fashion faux pas is the chub. “What are chubs?”, you may wonder. “Chubs”, another bit of vocabulary I invented, are the rolls of flesh squeezed out over the top of low-rise pants.)
If people can add up the number of rolls in your basket, your clothes are too small.
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To Disagree Without Being Disagreeable
Recently I have found myself in conversations with some of my favorite people in which one or the other of us, always women, was concerned that something we had said had offended someone. (See my post from last Friday, Woke Up in the Center of My Universe.) I guess it’s nice that we all want to be nice, but as one of these lovely ladies put it, “We can disagree without being disagreeable.”
Where do we come up with the idea that we can’t express ourselves on anything controversial? Expressing opinion gives others opportunity to think through an issue, possibly in light of something they hadn’t considered before.(Proverbs 27:17) We’re all different. We need each other’s input. We need each other.
Variety in lots of other things is good, why not in opinions? Just because I don’t like your shoes, doesn’t mean I don’t like you.
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Stiletto Defined
Definition: The term “stiletto” refers to a type of shoe heel that is pointy, thin and high. Also called “spike” or “spiked” heels.
For the source of this definition and a picture, click on the title of this post.
To join this blog’s discussion of the topic, visit my post Stiletto Heels.
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Stiletto Heels
Heretofore I have not been morally opposed to stiletto heels, anymore than I have been to flip-flops (which my husband claims are evidence that our society is in irrevocable decline). I may change my mind.
Observed when I was shoe-shopping at The Nordstrom Rack the other day, a fashionable-looking family unit:
Grandma (with blue and pink stiletto on her foot) to pre-school boy, “Wait, I want your mom to see this!”
Mom comes around corner with baby in sling, “Mom, you look like a street-walker.”
Boy, “Grandma, take it off!”
Mom, again, “It’s just not right. Even (insert young boy’s name) knows it.”
Exit, everyone laughing. Except me that is. I stand there gaping.
I’m still thinking about it. In preparation for this post, I found a report about stiletto heels being overwhelmingly associated with sex (click on the title of this post for the link). So why should women want to wear them in public?
Before I add stiletto heels to my list of What Not to Wear to Church, I’d love to hear from a few of you readers. Do you agree with the Nordstrom Rack shoe-mockers?
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Brown and Blue
4/18/2006 shoe picture added. Since you can’t see the label, it says Reaction Kenneth Cole, made in Italy (kinda cool, there are R’s on the heel section, my initial, you know). I paid $65.
Recently I had a shoe catastrophe. Out for a walk, in the rain, I perceived that the bottom of my foot was wet. Where’d that crack come from? Because my husband and I walk together nearly every lunch hour, I couldn’t go long without replacing these shoes.
I have some serious criteria for my everyday shoes: I need to be able to walk three miles in them, I need to be able to tighten them across the instep, and they need to fit in the casual lifestyle segment. In addition, I prefer to have at least two pairs to alternate between, usually black and brown.
As you can clearly see, the kind of shoes I was looking for are not the easiest to find. No stilettos, no mules, no preppy whites. Eventually I found myself at Nordstrom Rack, in the men’s shoe aisle. (Now I know where to go first!) I tried on a few brown pairs which might have been options, but then I spotted them … but they were blue. Would that work?
Yes, for a few reasons. One, I would be wearing them with jeans for the most part, and that works well with the whole length-balancing thing. Two, blue and brown are color complements. Brown, you see, is a shade of orange. A curious idea, with many applications.
Now I am off to test-drive my new shoes. The other great thing about The Rack is that if I don’t like them, they will still take them back.
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Who’s Teaching Your Kids?
Anybody who is reading this likely knows that we homeschool. So, you are probably wondering what we think about all the homeschool/public school hybrid programs that are popping up. After looking into the hybrid in our school district, we decided it isn’t for us (not now, anyway).
Considering the option, however, brought up some important issues which have been rattling around in my brain since then. Who is influencing the kids, and what do those influencers think about the things that are important to me? What jokes do they laugh at? What segments of society do they make fun of? Ideas are important.
Do your kids get more of their ideas from you or:
1) The TV? See my previous post TV or Not TV
2) Their peers?
3) Teachers? Sunday School teachers or youth leaders?
4) Siblings or other relatives?
5) Books or magazines?
6) Internet?
7) Music, what kinds of ideas are they absorbing from their favorite music?
Parents, you are the only one who thinks like you. You are the parent. Step up to the challenge and be your child’s primary influence. Kids are worth it.
