Wearing a Chloe Dao blouse, cheap jeans, thrifted Steve Madden heels, vintage bag and an Indian scarf. Jacket Forever XXI.Today and the next week are supposed to be miserable, weather-wise, so I feel okay with wearing jeans. Now. After I made it all winter in my fleece tights and my terry-cloth lined leggings, now I've decided it's a great time to wear jeans! Perhaps because I really can't stomach the thought of tights in mid-April, or maybe it's that 40 degrees feels very cold all of a sudden, and I don't want to get tired of my spring dresses before it's even been warm enough to wear them properly, or...maybe it's just because I found this pair of cheap jeans while cleaning out my drawers, tried them on and was pretty astounded at how comfortable they are. I haven't worn a pair of jeans since October! But according to my blog archives, I did this same thing last year -- once the calendar swung around to April, I was all like, "Pull out the jeans, it's springtime!" Which is contrary to logic, of course. But I have such a deep aversion to them...for so many years, the only ones I could find were uncomfortable: too long, too baggy, too tight in the waist...or the fabric was too stiff, too stretchy, too thick, too hot. The list of my denim complains was (and I guess is) long and banal, but you see, it's mostly since people started wearing skinny jeans that I've stopped wearing jeans altogether. Don't get me wrong -- I love the look of skinny jeans, but I hate their ankle bunching, thigh squishing tightness. Today I averted that horror by cuffing, and I think I'm deeply pleased with the result.
PS: This shoe-shape is one I inhabited very regularly back in college, and I guess now it's cool again? Maybe. They are both easier and harder to walk in than the more forgiving "almond-toed" heels that I've been wearing for the last few years -- the heels are lower, generally, but those pointy fronts can trip you up if you're not careful!
PSPS: My mother-in-law gave me this scarf, but as she did, she told me that the Indian man who gave it to her was hit by a car and died like a week after he gave it to her, so she never felt right wearing it. So I've never worn it until now. Uh....
5 comments:
Those jeans fit you amazingly! I really love the red heels peeking out underneath. I used to wear pointy toed heels all throughout high school, when I actually bothered with heels period. The narrow tips always left half of my foot nearly white from loss of circulation after I took them off haha. I still think they look awesome, but for the sake of my poor toes I might have to avoid them.
That's an "interesting" (to use the term in total Midwestern passive aggressiveness) story for the scarf...Well, at least it has a history to it, right? ha
Dear Julia, I keep meaning to write you an email, but I'm buried in schoolwork this weekend (I'm finishing up a psych degree). For now, let me just say, I love how in tune you are with your idiosyncratic clothing preferences. I can't help but wonder if, taken together, they all mean something. Like a personality test or a mood ring (more the former, but I really like mood rings).
p.s. It freaks me out a bit that my word verification to leave this comment is "muted" but I will move forward, undeterred!, and publish this.
Thank you, Donna! I have to admit, I've been stalking your Flickr, and am very happy to have connected, however superficially, over various things. I really love your photos and your bangs and will probably continue to blog about them (both). The PNW looks fine as can be through your camera lens and you're making me even more desirous of visiting....
xo Julia
My word verification: rubpur. Gross? Sexy? Uh...?
I am feeling like jeans a lot too lately. It's that it's still chilly, methinks.
Yay, you found a mural! I knew you would eventually. :)
I love the look of those skinny jeans, too! I don't think I've seen a pair that looks so perfectly straight and cuffs in that 50s sort of way. love that blouse, too...
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