Making an effort to dress nice
Sep. 11th, 2017 01:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frualeydisThough this may be against people's preconceptions i find that it's harder to bother to dress nicely when I'm thin. Because you know that you look cute (for a 50-year-old) in a jeans and a top too, so you don't have to make so much of an effort as when you're overweight.
It doesn't help that most of my nice skirts and tops are now way too big, so it is more complicated than before. But I'm working on it, and I will try and get some more nice knit v-neck tops when I get my next salary. I had five or six of them in different colours, that I had inherited from Anna, and they were a wardrobe staple - paired with a nice wool skirt I looked well dressed and professional.
A big problem is also that current fashions are for oversize and weird asymmetrical tops, not for classic fine knit cotton sweaters following the shape of the body.
Right now i have very few tops and no money, but I'm doing what I can with what I have and I'm re-sewing skirts as fast as I can/have the energy to.
It doesn't help that most of my nice skirts and tops are now way too big, so it is more complicated than before. But I'm working on it, and I will try and get some more nice knit v-neck tops when I get my next salary. I had five or six of them in different colours, that I had inherited from Anna, and they were a wardrobe staple - paired with a nice wool skirt I looked well dressed and professional.
A big problem is also that current fashions are for oversize and weird asymmetrical tops, not for classic fine knit cotton sweaters following the shape of the body.
Right now i have very few tops and no money, but I'm doing what I can with what I have and I'm re-sewing skirts as fast as I can/have the energy to.
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Date: 2017-09-11 03:19 pm (UTC)I'm the opposite I have little interest in dressing nice while I'm overweight but would be happy to revert to doing so if I manage to love the excess.
Teddy
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Date: 2017-09-11 03:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-11 06:14 pm (UTC)I find that I dressed better when I had Rosa. Because of cat hair, I had to separate my wardrobe into stay-at-home clothing and go-out-among-people clothing, and naturally the nicer stuff fell into the latter category, while the first mostly contained all the worn, soft and comfy stuff. Now that I'm catless I don't have to make an effort anymore, and also having the plantar fasciitis means I can't wear any nice shoes, which also affects my clothing choices.