November 5, 2009
“I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch ." Gilda Radner
No longer do I complain that I don't have a thing to wear. No longer do I care if I wear the same thing twice in the same week, and now Casual Fridays are a godsend to me. My previously-strict fashion rules are gone.
Once I longed for designer suits, handbags, authentic precious stones and hot pumps. Things have changed.
In recent years, I discovered a complete new sense of personal fashion, not unlike Gilda Radner's. I blame the economy and aging or both, but truth is I like my new unfettered style.
First, it was the foot surgery a few years back that nixed even the dream of trendy pumps.
The economic downturn banished designer suits from my closet.
I developed an affinity for costume jewelry because it is colorful, funky and fun, and honestly, who cares if it breaks or gets lost. It is cheap.
As for designer handbags, I still love those but prefer using canvas totes most of the time instead because I can get more "stuff' in them. One cannot have enough totes is my new motto.
Call it aging or whatever you want, there is another dimension to my changing fashion sense these days--wearing the same old thing never sounded so good.
Think about it for a minute. What is wrong with wearing the same outfit every day like kids to do in some prep schools? I love the idea because it doesn't confuse my already cluttered brain concerning what to wear on what day. I can't remember what I wore yesterday anyway.
For example, I went to the county seat in a nearby town one day this week and wore my new purple long-sleeved tee shirt that has rhinestones and the word "Paris" emblazoned in glitter on the front. I love that shirt, so the next day when I went to a different town to visit my mother in the nursing home I wore the purple shirt again.
Folks in that town didn't know that I wore the glam tee shirt to the other town the day before did they?
I have to fess up a little bit. Truth is that on the second day of the wearing of the purple shirt and not until I was driving did I realize that I wore the shirt already. Did I forget to toss it in the laundry basket and hang it back up instead, I wondered.
Apparently so.
I was beginning to feel like Roseanne Barr when she deadpanned, "Right now I'm having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before."
Let's see; tomorrow is Casual Friday, so my wardrobe choices will be easy for me, right? Red for the K. C. Chiefs, gold for the Missouri Tigers, blue to honor the military, pink to support breast cancer awareness, green for the environment and on Ad infinitum.
With so many "Dress-Down Friday" choices, that glittery purple shirt hanging in my closet, clean or not, is looking' mighty good to me right now. Come to think of it, I might just wear it Friday.
