What I Wore

It seems like its been a long time since I posted a picture of my physical self.

This wasn't what I had planned for today, but more photos of my pre-Harvey trip to Texas just didn't seem appropriate at the moment.  This photo is both atypical in that it is not exactly what I have been wearing all summer, and yet it is completely typical and clearly something I would put together and am comfortable wearing.  Several key elements are present:  jeans or chinos rolled to be either right at, or above, the ankle; flat shoes (either sneakers or sandals in summer); deliberately mussed hair.  Maybe I've just given up on feeling I have to present myself as something I'm not and I can dress simply to please myself, expectations and rules be damned. 

It was a bit cooler and a bit cloudy yesterday, with a promise of fall in the quality of the light.   My pale blue chinos didn't feel right, so I ended up pulling out these lightweight tan jeans I hadn't worn since April.  The jeans inspired the layers, which included a scarf I bought when I was 24 and had to rescue from the donation pile, and a pair of earrings I hadn't worn in a few years.

The earrings were one of my last gifts from George.  I hadn't worn them much since the gold-filled wires bothered my ears.  It is always a problem finding earrings that fit my style, but which have quality gold or platinum posts or wires I can actually wear.  Surprisingly, although I have reset funky stones into rings or necklaces, it only occurred to me recently that I could have someone replace the wires.  They had just come back from the jeweler.  Perhaps it wasn't the jeans that inspired the outfit, but the earrings, I really wanted to wear the earrings, and the rest just fell in place in accordance with my mood.