One of the best feelings was being 10 yrs old, getting up and putting on clothes TO COVER YOUR BODY. If it was warm you wore shorts and a t-shirt. Maybe it had your fave cartoon on it. Maybe it was a hand-me-down. Maybe it had a local business on it. It didn’t matter, you just wore it cause you needed clothes on. If it was cold, jeans and a sweatshirt. Mine were always Hanes and came from K-mart, or if we had a good Christmas, they had our sports team on them.(Go Eagles!) Maybe we were a little poor. No, actually if we were poor we would have been naked. We had clothes on our backs and food in our bellies so we were not poor. Now I have allowed myself to feel poor if I don’t have what’s in style. Personally, I don’t care. I would love nothing more than to wake up every morning and just get dressed for the weather. But now I feel these expectations. I will look like a slob if I go out in jeans and a big t-shirt. Everything has to be an “outfit”. Capris and polos. Cute sweater. They are all nice if you are going to church, lunch, whatever. But why do we have to be bothered? Maybe it is society’s increasing emphasis on looks.
I wore a uniform to school my entire life and LOVED it. All the other girls complained, but I loved the fact that every day I knew exactly what to wear. I loved that I didn’t need to shop for back to school clothes. When I started teaching preschool I approached my boss about making our polos with the school name a uniform. No one else went for it. That’s just me though. I am plain jane. I don’t feel the need to express myself through what I wear. But I feel I will be judged for it, and so I conform. So my goal is to stop caring. Just wear what I want. Jeans, sweatshirt, sneakers. What difference does it make? I am tired of looking for “just the right(fill in the blank).
And I don’t think the difference is I was a kid then and now am an adult. I never remember my mom or anyone else trying to be in style then. Was it just a different world? Why did it change? Is it the area I moved to?
You know what I REALLY love? Holiday sweaters. Big tacky ones with snowmen or pumpkins. The ones you are NOT supposed to wear. I tell my husband I can’t wait till I’m old so I can wear them. I know if I wore them now I would look ridiculous. I think that’s just not fair.
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I might as well shout out what I’m like. They say I’ll miss out on good friends if I dress the way I’d like to dress. I already have twice as many enemies as friends, so who cares? I’m already labeled as “weird”, “loner”, “emo”, “goth”, and “nerd”, so why not go all out on it?
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