Reflect, Reflecting, Reflection

Yesterday I actually managed to cross more items off my list than I added, enough that the list seemed visibly shorter.  Today not so much, although I did managed to cross off three items while I adding only two

One of those items was finally getting a mirror, which is now leaning against a wall in the guest bedroom, still in its box, although fully functional. Here I am checking it out immediately after bringing the mirror into the house wearing items that have become basics in my wardrobe since moving to Knoxville.  Although I had a couple of these pieces before moving, I probably wouldn't have worn them together before, I don't know why. Perhaps  I just fret less now. 

Elieen Fisher tee (2012)

J Crew Skirt (2011)

Michel Kors platform sandals (2011)

I am not convinced that having the mirror will change  much in terms of how I am dressing. I feel like I have explored style and expectation and now I just want to get dressed.  Sometimes I'll get it "right" sometimes I won't, although the mirror will help me discern when things are way off, not that anyone else would be as critical as I myself tend to be.

Having a mirror will certainly make it easier to take a full length photo, even with stacks of paintings still stacked up against the wall in the background.  I still think I find the camera more telling.  Something about the flattening and two-dimensionality of the photographic image, even a photo of me looking in a mirror, seems to impose a layer of separation between me and the image of me.  In the mirror I am far too prone to see my expectations of myself.  It will be useful however, when I start looking at the various items in my closet that I am not yet wearing, trying to weed out the keepers and the losers.