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Altoids Addict (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} altoidsaddict) wrote,@ 2008-02-22 20:42:00 |
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Nice-enough chick held the door open for me at the Tivoli when my arms were full, so that was awesome.
It puzzled me why she had "PINK" written across virtually everything she wore, including the oh-so-tasteful assitological region. Seriously, head-to-toe branding. Do not do this. It's awful, yes, but I'm not a fashion plate myself and have not yet figured out how to wear a goddamn skirt with a lining. (It's not that I don't wear skirts with linings, it's just that I honest to God somehow fuck it up and spend the entire day rescuing the hemline from creeping up and then at the end of wearing said skirt the lining has to be reattached. I do not know how this happens.) I realize that my slobby looks are generally the result of lack of skill on the physical act of sustaining an appearance for more than five minutes, but it's something I've been working on lately in an effort to not look like such a slob. Note: I now look like a slob in nicer clothes. If I went on "What Not To Wear" I think I'd have several outfits that would in fact pass the cut - as long as I were standing perfectly still. It also does not help that I am very unfortunate-looking. And no, this isn't fishing for compliments or anything; it's just that I have 30 years of photographic evidence proving beyond the shadow of a doubt that me and good looks were never to meet. It's not a problem for me exactly, and I don't take it as a personal failing. Some people are ugly, most people are ugly in at least one way, and at least I'm not like the hordes of people who have not apparently noticed that Victoria Beckham scares small children with her pyramidhead and glow-in-the-dark tan and a hideous boob job, the awfulness of which she somehow highlights with everything she wears. She holds herself up as a fashion icon. I am an academic. One of us has chosen a profession confluent with our aesthetic tastes and God-given lack of attractiveness.
After a disastrous day with a lovely, well-fitted patterned skirt (linings! argh!) I have decided to try again with long skirts. I have three long skirts, one of which is on its last legs and one of which is really especially hideous on me, so now I have to go buy some long skirts.
It puzzled me why she had "PINK" written across virtually everything she wore, including the oh-so-tasteful assitological region. Seriously, head-to-toe branding. Do not do this. It's awful, yes, but I'm not a fashion plate myself and have not yet figured out how to wear a goddamn skirt with a lining. (It's not that I don't wear skirts with linings, it's just that I honest to God somehow fuck it up and spend the entire day rescuing the hemline from creeping up and then at the end of wearing said skirt the lining has to be reattached. I do not know how this happens.) I realize that my slobby looks are generally the result of lack of skill on the physical act of sustaining an appearance for more than five minutes, but it's something I've been working on lately in an effort to not look like such a slob. Note: I now look like a slob in nicer clothes. If I went on "What Not To Wear" I think I'd have several outfits that would in fact pass the cut - as long as I were standing perfectly still. It also does not help that I am very unfortunate-looking. And no, this isn't fishing for compliments or anything; it's just that I have 30 years of photographic evidence proving beyond the shadow of a doubt that me and good looks were never to meet. It's not a problem for me exactly, and I don't take it as a personal failing. Some people are ugly, most people are ugly in at least one way, and at least I'm not like the hordes of people who have not apparently noticed that Victoria Beckham scares small children with her pyramidhead and glow-in-the-dark tan and a hideous boob job, the awfulness of which she somehow highlights with everything she wears. She holds herself up as a fashion icon. I am an academic. One of us has chosen a profession confluent with our aesthetic tastes and God-given lack of attractiveness.
After a disastrous day with a lovely, well-fitted patterned skirt (linings! argh!) I have decided to try again with long skirts. I have three long skirts, one of which is on its last legs and one of which is really especially hideous on me, so now I have to go buy some long skirts.
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