Failure already!!!

I can't believe it. It's only the end of January and I have duplicated twice in the last two days! I even thought about what combination to wear in order to avoid this, to no avail. This is the sign that I need to keep the database handy. Here is what I have for January. Red type indicates an accidental duplication.

Crap. I almost want to run home and change I am so embarrassed. I am wearing red wool turtleneck and blue jeans today. Oh the humiliation. Well I guess many people's new years resolutions don't last a month so I shouldn't feel too bad. Resolve to do better!!

the red shirt

I like this red shirt even though it has a stain on it, and it accentuates my floppy belly. It has three-quarter sleeves, and is knit silk. Looking at this photo makes me think I should wear more red. These are the infamous wide-legged Caslon denim pants. The shirt is by Charles David who I hadn't heard of; turns out its a pretty good brand. The black sweater I bought on EBay about 10 years ago. It is silk and cashmere. Anyway. Enjoy. Whatever.

My birthday suit!

OK. Today is my birthday. I wanted to wear one of my favorite outfits: my comfy stretchy ankle length pants and my Amphetamine Bob blue dotted shirt. I do not have the skills of the average teenaged girl in photographing myself so you are stuck with this terrible document. I like the way I feel in this combination and am sad that I wont get to wear it again this year unless I bag this silly once-a-year thing I'm doing. Anyway, enjoy the picture of me in my birthday suit.

I don't like my blue shirt

These things are critical to the progress of our civilization, right? I can't imagine anything more trite than a blog about what one old bag wore to work, except a blog in which the same old bag complained about how much she doesn't like her shirt. World peace? No. Cure for cancer? No. Just this blue shirt that is so cheap that the shiny elastic it was knit with shows through every time you stretch it. Maybe if I had on a better shirt the cure for cancer would occur to me. Probably not. Are you still reading this?

On a more positive note, I have not spent one dime on clothing for myself this month. I have to go buy pants for the boy, but I have completely resisted the siren call of winter sales. So while the value of this waste of time blogging is pretty low, at least there's that.

Evidence to support "boring" claim

Green skinny cargo pants. Who wears those anymore? These pants must be about 5 years old. Paired with the grey round neck wool sweater I got at a second hand store last year. Added color with the scarf my mom sent for Christmas a couple of years ago. I'm a hot-diggety damn style icon.

It occurs to me...

that if I wear all my warm shirt/ warm pants combinations this month I will be freezing in a mini skirt and sleeveless top come December 2013.

I also am having moments of sadness to think that a particular combination that looks good and is comfortable will not be available again! Yes I'm neurotic as hell.

Brown cords with a pale grey wool turtleneck today. I have to be careful not to gain any weight this year or these pants will have to be removed from the line-up. Eeeeeee.

I know it.

Still no pictures. Too boring. Wore the grey boat-neck sweater with the red cords on Friday (booooring) and today is the boring nadir: Khaki pants with the grey wool round-neck sweater. No pictures needed for this totally neutral awful stuff. Warm though because it's freezing cold here.

Teal trousers

I think my friend DaisyJ is looking forward to seeing me in these teal skinniest with some of my wilder shirts. Later in the year. Yes teal pants may cause some mirth but today they were sedately worn with a long grey cashmere boat neck sweeter. Totally dignified.

Nuttiness will be revealed to those who wait.

Free dress weekend! Woo hoo

Technical difficulties

It's not like my photos are anything fabulous but it would be great if the damned things showed. The one I posted yesterday worked on my iPad but not when you clicked the link from Twitter. These things I don't understand and do not care why they don't work because I have too many other things that are much more serious to worry about. However, if you have a simple solution to the photo incompatability problem I would be glad to hear about it.

The New Year resolution

So I recently moved. This involved schlepping wardrobe box after wardrobe box of my crappy raiments from one location to another. I whined to my friend Marjorie "I have enough clothing to never wear the same thing twice all year" and thus the challenge was born.
Some approximations: 52 weeks in a year and 5 days a week at work is 260 unique work outfits. I decided that I do not have enough bathrobes to wear a unique one every day all day on Sundays. With a good handful of pants and skirts, I will need 20 to 30 tops. This started to seem very doable.  We decided that sweatshirts would be out (weekend wear), and sweaters/cardigans will be able to be worn multiple times due to the winter-like conditions of my workplace. Marjorie suggested I take pictures and blog this adventure because she is sure that there will be some pretty wild combinations towards the end of the year. If I keep this up that long. Formal presentations requiring appropriate dress don't count.

Ok so here we go:
Pants: 10 pairs of everyday "office casual" pants
Skirts: 3 skirts; long, midi and mini

I need 20 unique shirts. Let me go count.....

An immediate problem: wool turtlenecks. Hmm.

Ok about 40 shirts. Plus a couple of wool turtlenecks. I reserve the right to wear the turtlenecks in heavy rotation in the winter so I will not have to wear them in the summer.

Also, one of my pairs of blue jeans went through the dryer, and I am "growing out" of a pair of brown cords. I may simply remove these two which will necessitate adding additional shirts to the rotation (yes, there are more) or I will substitute a dress (there are a handful of them) for a given pant combination.

I will keep track manually for now, but will create an excel sheet when I start to get confused.

Here is what I wore today: