Be well-dressed

Sept-Oct and April-May:
5 work suits
6 evening outfits
2 very elegant outfits for conferences/cerimonies

Nov-March:
8 work suits
8 evening outfits
2 very elegant outfits for conferences/cerimonies

June-August:
4 work outfits
6 evening outfits
2 very elegant outfits for conferences/cerimonies

miscellaneous sportswear for all seasons

i would like to feel good about myself and to live my life, at the moment i feel so horrible that i spend most of my time in pyjamas or joggers as not much else fits, i want to be able to wake up in th morning and feel good and be able to face the day

I’m such a scruffy person. I don’t think personal appearance is that important really – we all pay too much attention to it and it’s not the sort of thing that I’d really like as part of my epitaph – she was well-dressed and had nice clothes is so trite, so trivial. However, I know a lot of people do make judgements on appearance and I think I often get judged negatively in this way – the fat middle-aged women won’t be the brightest button in the box/won’t be able to keep up on the bike/etc. etc. About time I really did something about my appearance.
Is it that I’m too torn about this? Or that I’m only doing it in order to meet others’ expectations? I do feel that for a time in my life I’d love to be able to say that I made a really good physical impression – from how I look, and from what I wear. Even my husb. didn’t fancy me first off! Also, I’ve a feeling that it might be too late for me – I’m in my forties.

So do I give up and spend the rest of my life continuing as a large blob – not beautiful, looking unfit and rather stupid? I’m a bit scared of being anything else.

I would love not just to be reasonably neat and tidy, but really gorgeously dressed – thin, groomed, interesting.