Dress: ModCloth * Sweater: thrifted * Oxfords: UO * Belt: Akira * Necklace: Noble Town Vintage
I'm exhausted, you guys. I've had the busiest, craziest, most sleepless few days, and I'm just totally dragging this morning. I dropped Joe off at the airport on Tuesday morning at 4:30, and I feel like I've been going non-stop since then. Even with my long, lovely weekend, I'm oh-so-ready for it to be Friday. I'm not trying to complain, but let's just say I'm really looking forward to sleeping in on Saturday morning.
This is actually a repeat outfit, with everything other than the shoes. I am sort of smitten with the shapelessness of this look, but I'm not sure why. I don't usually go for tight or form-fitting clothes, but I also try to balance loose items with more fitted ones. This outfit disguises my waist (or rather, waist-lessness, since I'm really more of a rectangle than an hourglass) and covers my legs and arms with ample fabric, but I love it. Maybe it's because it's just easy. Each piece of this outfit fits me well, is comfortable, and sits on my body in a way that never needs any adjusting, futzing, or rearranging. I love the colors, the softness of the muted tones and the huggable texture of the sweater. I love the accessories, pieces that I wear so often that they seem to becoming part of my trademark style. In some ways, it's an odd look, but to me it looks and feels so right. :)
I'm participating again this year in the Dress Your Best project, hosted by the gals at Academichic. I participated last year, and it would be remiss of me not to mention how profoundly the project impacted me. I was surprised by how seriously I took it, and how the idea of dressing for, and celebrating, parts of my body filtered through my thoughts and outfits for the duration of this year. So I'm really pleased to be going at it again this time around, and I feel like this outfit is a perfect one with which to kick it off. It's an outfit that doesn't highlight one part or the other, one feature over the rest. Nor is it particularly unique to my body or style. Rather, it is an outfit that could be worn by a plethora of body types. It would look wildly different on someone with an hourglass shape, or a tall woman with platform heels. And it would look smashing in both, and other, cases. But on me, on my small rectangular body, it looks unlike it would on anyone else. The pieces combine to fit me, on my body, and create a visual that is unique to that body. So this year my first Dress Your Best "submission" comes in the form of a celebration of my body as a whole. It has its ups and downs, its curves, dimples, imperfections, and scars, but it is mine, and it is unlike any other.
I'm really looking forward to crafting more posts in the next couple of weeks to celebrate the things that I adore about myself. I haven't narrowed down the list yet, and I may just fly by the seat of my pants with it and pick something at random everyday, but I know it will result in days of happy, productive reflection about myself. It's something I should do more often, and I'm glad to have the excuse to do it again now.
Title song: The Beatles, "I'm So Tired"
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