I Wore This Yesterday
… and heard things like “glamourous”. Along with a little ribbing for wearing white after labor day. ;) (I know the top is not bright or print, but the dark/light contrast is actually really good on me with my dark eyes and light hair.)
More to come this week on scheduled maintenance. And my hair appointment is Wednesday.
What’s going on in your world?
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Friday Fashion Lab: In the Fitting Room
This post is sort of a part two to a previous post picturing some items I purchased for $4.97 each at JCPenney earlier in the week. Today, when I went to return the skirt and the jacket (to a different JCPenney store), the final clearance was all priced at $3.97!
The top was not clearance. However, it was still a contender. In the end, I decided to go for the dark green pictured further down (they were each on sale for $12.99) and wait for this one to be reduced further.
The skirt is several inches longer than the previous one, but it is all cotton. Should I keep it?
Purely for your amusement, I threw in thepictures of these two skirts: the magenta wouldn’t have been bad without the zoomy zipper up the bu** and the long one … well, what do you think I’d look like wearing it? (Have you ever heard the term “bun head”? And must it always be disrespectful?)
This third set of pictures illustrates my new personal rule: pants, for me, must stop at or above the knee or continue at least to the ankle. The reason? While my legs in total are short, from the knee down, they are actually (proportionally) an inch long.
Now, about these last two pictures:
- I am elated! Ever since the early ’90s, when I was shopping Lane Bryant for pregnancy clothes, I have been waiting for this green to reappear on the scene.
- Yes, I really did wear Great Northwest outdoor gear to the mall. Sssshhh! Don’t tell Angie.
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Blogging Our Comebacks Calendar
Update: Noticing a need for some jewelry specifically to complete color harmonies near my face, I am adding a week for accessories to the end of my makeover schedule. To the end, because I still think it’s more important to not be naked than to be properly accessorized! Here at the bottom of the fashion food chain, not being naked is a priority. LOL
Since I’m presently staring down what could arguably be my busiest week of the year, I would love to have your help: any of you who are playing along and would like to submit a guest post or who have written something about your own “comeback”, please email me with either a post, some pictures, a link to your own post, or whatever. Thanks!
So far, I have brought my scale back into my bathroom and been walking almost everyday. My nails are growing, but not yet manicured and my cuticles are dry and cracked. I have my appointment for my haircut next week. Shopping for a magnifying mirror (for plucking my eyebrows) had been unsuccessful, but I scored on the trench. And after biffing a bag full of stuff, I’m still appreciating the fact that I hardly shopped at all last year, especially during the fall when I was costuming a show. Now I will be able to test how really concise a wardrobe I can build.
I’m still having fun! How about you?
Well, my semi-official first post is up. Leave a link to yours, if you write one, in the comments of this post or email it to me. If you have no blog, but would like to post before pictures or write a guest post, or whatever, send it on in! If I get some links (by 9 pm PDST, Wednesday August 27), I will publish them carnival-style on Thursday.
Here’s my tentative topic line-up:
- August 22 - 28: the big picture
- August 29- Sept 4: weight loss/physical fitness
- September 5th - 11th: scheduled maintenance
- September 12th - 18th: hair
- September 19th -25th: fall wardrobe
- September 26th - Oct 2nd: the face
- October 3rd -9th:
the big day!accessories - October 10th-16th: putting it all together for the big event(s)
How does that look?
Again, I say, this is going to be so much fun!
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This Week’s Bargains
Since y’all asked so nicely, here are the three items I picked up on my trip to the mall the other day. Each was $5.
- Extra long, extra wide, white linen pants. LOL. When my hero first saw me in them, he asked me if I was “that old”. (He somehow got the idea that white linen pants = old lady.) I was undaunted. When my daughter first saw me in them, she smiled. Her natural smile. This excursion solidified my inclination toward wider, flowy trousers WITH HEELS (with flats I prefer tapered pants). Since Imogen said my pants should not be the hero, I will need to wear these with an exciting top.
- As long as I’m rambling on about my own personal preferences (aka style idiom), I may as well address skirts too. Here you see that I am a sucker for a groovy print. And sick to death of above the knee skirts. But this one has at least two fatal flaws: one, it’s polyester, and two, full skirts make me feel like a hippo. If I’m going to wear a skirt that makes me feel like a hippo, I might as well save my $5 and borrow one from my lovely daughter (who gets most of hers for $1 at the thrift store and at least half of them I picked out for her when she wasn’t even there).
- The most astonishing thing about this metallic and linen blend jacket was the response of the woman working the counter at the store when I bought it to my question about whether or not I should wear the color. The trouble is it’s very neutral for my complexion, but fabulously flattering to my hair. She was almost shocked that I would even ask; “for $4.97?” she asked incredulously. As if! My new theory about why some people let themselves go is the utter incompetence of the help in stores these days!
Anyway, what are your thoughts? Should I keep any of these items?
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Eat Fat, Stay Thin
Another blast-from-the-past post. 
The following statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration:
Yesterday I was at the grocery outlet, buying alot of ice cream, when the subject of fat came up. Just in case you think I am joking when I talk about eating fat (something I have been known to do in person, although this is the first time I’ve brought it up here), I am not. Admittedly, my weight hasn’t been my biggest struggle in life, however, I am now a firm believer in adding fat, rather than restricting it, for weight loss. Natural, healthy fat seems to favor fat-burning.
Click here to read an e-interview of Sally Fallon, author of my favorite cookbook, Nourishing Traditions.
This post is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
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Layering Tops of Various Lengths
Eternal Voyageur brings up a good, if messy, question:
I was wondering whether you’d do a post of layering length of jackets/cardigans over tops. I was thinking about how to combine short/regular/long cover-ups over short/regular/tunic length tops. This is tricky for me especially when I plan to leave the cover-up layer unbuttoned …
And Imogen was kind enough to answer it on her blog!
Myself, I am off to Macy’s today. You see, I forgot that I had an account with them and so when the mail came I threw the envelope in the drawer “to look at later”. :( But as long as I am there to pay my bill anyway, I plan to Shop Clearance at Macy’s. :)
Wish you could go with me (I’m a bit lonely today after having my best friend around for the long US holiday weekend)! If you could go with me, what would you be shopping for? Or would we just be mall-walking for exercise?
