What Not To Wear
So, it's been awhile. Stuff has been going on. Work is better, 2WN is going to be more prepared for its spring concert than we have ever been before and altodescant and I will be in DC this weekend for a very old friend from high school's wedding.
I ended up deciding that since it was going to be 85 degrees on Saturday in VA, that it was probably a good idea to try and find a dress to wear instead of my original plans of pants and a sweater (standard work wear in Michigan in April) so I went out shopping yesterday in search of a dress.
Apparently, my concept of what my body looks like is way messed up. I know I have an hourglass figure (especially post-Noah); I have boobs and hips of doom. However, I'd always been under the assumption that close-fitting and non-a-line skirts were a big no-no for me. Apparently not. I must have tried on 10 different dresses yesterday and the dress I ended up buying was a sheath dress.
Let me repeat that. A sheath dress. I have never been able to wear a sheath dress in my life. Link, although mine is green, not white. But apparently I can also wear pencil skirts now (they always used to do weird things to my butt). So a-line dresses don't work so much (especially not that jersey fabric either - clings in all sorts of weird places), but structured sheath dresses work great. Who knew?
I ended up deciding that since it was going to be 85 degrees on Saturday in VA, that it was probably a good idea to try and find a dress to wear instead of my original plans of pants and a sweater (standard work wear in Michigan in April) so I went out shopping yesterday in search of a dress.
Apparently, my concept of what my body looks like is way messed up. I know I have an hourglass figure (especially post-Noah); I have boobs and hips of doom. However, I'd always been under the assumption that close-fitting and non-a-line skirts were a big no-no for me. Apparently not. I must have tried on 10 different dresses yesterday and the dress I ended up buying was a sheath dress.
Let me repeat that. A sheath dress. I have never been able to wear a sheath dress in my life. Link, although mine is green, not white. But apparently I can also wear pencil skirts now (they always used to do weird things to my butt). So a-line dresses don't work so much (especially not that jersey fabric either - clings in all sorts of weird places), but structured sheath dresses work great. Who knew?