HELP YOU CAN SEE MY NIPPLES!!!

ha ha - thought that title might get your attention!

But seriously - remember that posting a while back - "internet bikin" that amazing turqouise tankini. Well, i tested it out today in the pool. It's 100% see-through. I looked in the mirror and it was like I was wearing nothing at all (except for the sheer turqoise sheen to my skin) you can see everything! What can I do? Do I just own it and wear it and introduce the world to my nipples? Or is there a way I can fix this. Because I mean really, I'm not sure the world is ready for nipple shennanigans!

Ode to my T-Shirt

This is the new weekly column that I invite you to participate it. I will call it: “Monday’s Pictures for Posterity”. I have too many articles of clothing that I’m holding on to for no good reason. It doesn’t fit, it’s stained or its just so out of style – I never wear it but for whatever reason I just can’t let go. Well at a recent drinking session (where all good ideas are born) someone suggested I take a picture to remember the garment and then let it go. Silly?… maybe, but when I can convert anything into a photo project; I’m game to try. So I challenge you to declutter your closet and play along. On Mondays we need to help each other make the decision to Keep, Toss, Donate or Sell on EBay!

First item up for debate: My favorite White T-Shirt
I know some of you are going to say, “it’s just a white T-Shirt, they are a dime a dozen. Toss it!” --- Well, sniff, sniff it was more than just a white T-Shirt to me. I found it on the Rack at Ross (a discount department store) I was in line purchasing something else and it just called to me – a white beacon in a store full of crap. I didn’t even try it on I just grabbed it in haste and added it to my purchase. This was nearly 9 months ago. We’ve been through a lot together (insert sappy song score of your choice here) Under sweaters, on it’s own. It’s soft and crisp at the same time. It was great with jeans or a cute summer skirt. But alas, the yellow pit stains are no longer bleachable, and just one to many stained coffee splatters make it mostly unwearable. I could add it to my work clothes or toss it in the garbage (insert sobbing noises).

So here I offer it up as the first of many Monday’s Picture for Posterity. (couldn’t even bear to put it on!)

From dress to shirt (or smock?)

Had this dress for a few years, never wore it as a dress. I love the pattern (I so rarely wear things with a pattern). I did not want to give it up so I transformed it, chopped off the bottom and made it into a long wrap shirt. But now I have a fear of it looking to smock like? What do you think?

What we wore on Mme S's special day

I know, I know it wasn't really your special day... but it was an event post-special day, and this is what we wore.

Third Time Unlucky

Well, this is the third time its happened and this time it pisses me off more than the first two.

I came to work to see another girl wearing a top that I recently bought. A top that I thought about for days, called OOTG to come buy with me (she didn't), and then got and stared at for hours. It's nothing too special, but cute and more interesting than a plain t-shirt.

Then, horrors, I came into work and the funky-french-girl is wearing it. Same colour even. DAMMIT. I have worn it to work before, but I guess she worked from home that day because my rule is : whoever wears it first, has the rights to the shirt in my books. How can I come into work now, having seen her in it already? And hope she isn't wearing it that day? And pretend I didn't see her already?

I now have 3 shirts on the no-wear list (2 are t-shirts that I might be able to get away with) but c'mon! I don't have THAT much to choose from.

Lesson #1 : wear shirt IMMEDATELY after purchase to work to establish first-worn rule
Lesson #2 : never never buy anything from a generic corporate branch of a clothing store anyone can go to unless it is a plain black or white t-shirt no one will care about.

Hmpf!