Why does this look so bad?

Sometimes I am mystified by why an outfit looks so bad. This is a checkered Theory shirtdress. The colors are a bit untraditional but I like the yellow and purple thing. I am wearing a pair of black leggings with it. Shirt dress and leggings; how innocuous can you get? But somehow it looks terrible.


Unbelted

So I tried on a couple of pairs of leggings and tights. Because the bottom of the dress is open due to few buttons and the presence of a large bottom affixed to the back of my thighs, wearing tights or very tight leggings made it look like I was flashing folks. No good for work. So I decided that I needed a pair of leggings that look like "pants" rather than "tights" so I went with these thicker Hue leggings.
Since the dress is loose, I thought that a belt would spiffy this mess up a bit. No:



OMG

The belt really accentuates my big square hips and protruding bred-dough encased belly. And it caused the dress to pop up at a funny angle at the bottom. How wrong can you get?

In the end, I went to work with the dress unbelted. It is so comfortable I feel like I am at work in my pyjamas but who cares. My reputation as an eccentric old bag is intact and there's no fashion mishap that will change that.



August progress

I am developing a wish list of clothes I want to buy on 1 January 2014. I expect by that time everything I want will either be on sale or gone from the stores. But this is how I am coping.

Some recent pictures:

Love these Donald Pliner shoes



ADB. Why? Because, Seventies.

That's right, I'm not from Texas. Texas wants me anyway
 

That guinea pig is stylin'. Ladies, we should take a page from the rodent's book and dare to be ourselves.

what can I say

I haven't got much to say. Spent the weekend at Family Camp up near Yosemite. I was happy there. Came home and had a thought provoking dream about a very old Bob Dylan. It was more profound than that sounds. More of an exploration of aging, life, one's legacy and what it means to the individual and to others. I woke up chastened and quieted and a little depressed. Depressed isn't the right word; its more like I'm slowed down at my center. Slowed down because I'm processing input that isn't conscious. Too much wiring making too many demands on the central core of my soul. Or whatever.

Oh I can add a caption.

Look! I'm smiling? No its just gas.

Insane, or Not?

So there is this rather cruel website called "Hot, or Not?" where hapless young women upload photos of themselves, and other folks log on to rate their looks as "hot" or "not".  Full disclosure: I have never visited the website but the very idea of it makes my blood run cold. However, today while I was getting dressed to run errands around town it occurred to me that I might need and appraisal of my outfit. Rather than Hot or Not, it would be "Insane, or Not?"
On the weekends I try to avoid wearing anything that is in the database because I am bored to tears with those clothes. But since I haven't bought anything all year long I am forced to be creative.

Now here's the thing. I am wearing a top that has a built in bra, but ones physiology still shows through. To disguise this fact I put the little light cropped sweater over the top. I am wearing a gold circular pendant as well. OK. Wasn't sure abut this but went with it.
At Safeway, a rough looking old character smiled at me and said "Nice outfit". Charmed, I smiled back and said thank you.
I think it was my physiology that attracted the attention.

July done. Plodding along!

 Hmmm. Looks terrible! I wonder what happened. I copied the screenshot as a jpg file like usual, and uploaded it here. That is what I have always done in the past. I think it has to do with the Windows 2010 change-over. Since my company switched to Windows 2010 computer stuff has changed for the worse. I don't understand how Microsoft stays in business putting out such crappy software. And my company has progressively adopted online document sharing and database sharing that it legislates everone use whether it works and is integrated across the sites or not. Kind of makes you want to slit your wrists, to be honest. I found out the crux of the problem: Global IT has goals to roll-out, but not to implement or support, their software imprimatuers. So they acheive their goal by dropping their turds on us. Ta dah! They get a nice bonus for meeting their goals. Meanwhile, the rest of us victims are working twice as long to do what we had been able to do before, trying to create fixes and work-arounds. Try contacting IT to get help? That is not in their job description.

OK I am done. I think you guys heard this song before, if you are not singing it yourself.

putting something on versus getting dressed

Those are different concepts. I can respect folks who get dressed even if the end result is not something that I would wear. I work with lots of people from very different cultures. Even so, you can see who Gets Dressed versus who just Puts Something On.
Here is a picture of me wearing something. It is really hard to get dressed when 1. you lack enthusiasm 2. you are constrained by your ridiculous New Years Resolution to wear only what you have in your closet for an entire year. Wait a minute. My phone matches my shirt. Seriously I did not intend that.