The difference of inches
What I Wore to Work Today: Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Dress: Target
Shoes: Payless
Months later, I finally got around to taking the 60 seconds necessary to slice a few inches off the bottom of this dress, and bam, it’s back in the rotation. The picture below shows the original version from last September. Small difference, just enough to make it something I’ll wear.
Procrastination
What I Wore to Work Today: Monday, April 1, 2013
Dress: $1 Goodwill, refashioned
Shoes: Walmart
I have two hours until the deadline for a short essay on why Microsoft Project 2010 is an excellent tool for meeting project goals for a new class I’m taking on Microsoft Project. The actual writing, editing, and submitting of this essay will 20 minutes maybe, and even though it’s a minor commitment here I am posting a few backlogged photos to Rabbit Style News instead because it seems like an insurmountable task. Both are on my To Do List, so either way I’ll get to cross off something.
Scintillating commentary
What I Wore to Work Today: March 29, 2013
Shirt: $1 Goodwill, refashioned
Jeans: Goodwill, shortened
Sneakers: Payless, laces from Target
I don’t remember anything about this day. I’m guessing it was a Friday because I’m wearing jeans, and also because a calendar tells me that March 29 was a Friday. That’s the kind of top-notch commentary you can expect from this blog.
Life lessons
What I Wore to Work Today: March 28, 2013
Tshirt: Target
Pants: $1 Goodwill, refashioned
This has become one of my favorite shirts. If I had known this at the beginning, I would have purchased two at the same time, saving one to be a replacement when the first gets old and faded. By the time I realized this, it wasn’t being sold anymore and it was too late.
Probably a life lesson. When you have a passion for something, go for it wholeheartedly before it’s too late.
Cardigan weather
What I Wore to Work Today: March 28, 2013
Cardigan: Target
Dress: Target
Shoes: Walmart
Remember when it was a mere 70 degrees during the afternoon and a brisk 50 at night? That sure was nice. Triple digits are right around the corner now…
Haircut and lounge singer dress
I grow my hair out for 9-18 months and then I get it chopped off again. I enjoy the dramatic change and the gradual transition through different styles/lengths over time.
I attended a cocktail CrossFit gym grand reopening party that same night wearing a $1 Goodwill dress that I originally bought for a tacky prom party only to discover that it wasn’t particularly tacky. Satin and ruched and shiny blue and tight, yes, but maybe it could be worn without irony in the right situation…
I added a ribbon strap with safety pins and promptly forgot about it. Several years later, I came across it again and wore it to this party. And failed to take a full-length standing photo.
Incomplete victory
What I Wore Only Once to Take Pictures on My Balcony: Sunday, March 17, 2013
Dress: $1 Goodwill, refashioned
Belt: Xi, came with a blouse
Shoes: Goodwill
Earrings: Unknown, probably Claire’s
Turns out polyester, or whatever this dress is made of (the tag was too faded to read), really doesn’t dye very well. The first round was a regular dye for natural fibers and dyed the binding only. The second attempt used iDye Poly and changed the color only slightly while stinking up my apartment. The third approach meant 60 minutes simmering on my stove, getting black vapor residue on the microwave above the stove, and a mostly-dyed dress.
Admitting that was as good as it was going to get, I did a hack job refashion. It turned out too short with a neckline and bodice portion I didn’t particularly enjoy and didn’t want to deal with. Good enough for an After picture? Certainly. And then directly into the giveaway basket.
A nod to St. Patrick’s Day
What I Wore to a St. Patrick’s Day Party: Saturday, March 16, 2013
Tshirt: Target
Skirt: $1 Goodwill, refashioned
Boots: Famous Footwear
Earrings: Claire’s
I went to Goodwill the Thursday before St. Patrick’s Day with the plan to find a green dress for a dollar to refashion. While I didn’t find a dress, this skirt caught my eye. I really liked the lace hem, and with a non-shamrock green tshirt it worked for the party without being too on-the-nose. I’ve already worn it again and have plans to wear it to a Talib Kweli show this weekend too.
Paula Poundstone!
What I Wore to a Paula Poundstone Show: Friday, February 15, 2013
Dress: Ross
Cardigan: Target
Clutch: Gift from my brother and his wife
Earrings: Claire’s
By sheer coincidence I ended up wearing stripes just like Paula Poundstone and we totally coordinated when I got to take my picture with her after the show. She’s one of my favorite panelists on “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me”, along with Adam Felber, Jessie Klein, and Mo Rocca.
It was sort of a date, the kind of date with dinner and a show and your ex-boyfriend whom you still see sometimes and at the end of the evening he tells you that he has been dating someone for a few weeks and so you two won’t be hanging out anymore except as purely platonic friends because if things get serious with her he doesn’t want to have to tell her about any sort of overlap with his ex-girlfriend, and then you don’t end up hanging out as friends either after that. One of those kinds of dates.
Patron of the arts
What I Wore to the Ballet: February 17, 2003
Dress: $1 Goodwill, refashioned
Cardigan: Target
Belt: Gift from Sarah
Shoes: Payless
Earrings: Claire’s
Clutch: Gift from my brother and sister-in-law
I’m getting all out of order here. This is what I wore in mid-February to see “Romeo & Juliet” at the ballet, where I insisted on calling myself a “patron of the arts”.
This clutch was a Christmas gift from my brother and sister-in-law. A few days before it arrived I was at Goodwill looking for a top to refashion into a shrug before I went to the Nutcracker (more ballet!) and stopped briefly at the purse section. I listed the criteria of what I was looking for: a clutch that could be dressed up or down, jewel tone, magnetic clasp, single color with some structural detail…
Four days later a box shows up at my doorstep containing this little bag, matching every single bullet point. It was eerie and perfect. I hadn’t mentioned it to anybody and I was alone at the store. Get out of my head!!
