How important are clothes to you? Describe
your style, if you have one, and tell us how appearance impacts how you feel
about yourself.
How
important are clothes to me? Well, I
like clothes. I enjoy shopping and the challenge of putting things together now
and again. My mom used to like me to go
shopping with her to pick out things she might like that she probably wouldn’t
choose on her own. I like that she
trusted my sense of style in later years because I know she thought I dressed a
little oddly in high school. I had my
own style, including wearing multiple watches up my wrist (all Swatch, of
course) along with all kinds of costume jewelry and interesting combinations of
outfits from nice church dresses to beatnik and grunge styles. I have since come into my own, and I’m pretty
good at choosing what most flatters my aging figure today. I realized a little too late that I should
have appreciated my figure as a teenager and young woman a bit more when I
picked up clothes from storage at my parent’s house back in December…everything
was large and even extra large! These were the clothes I wore in college, when
I was between 19-22 years old!! Today, I am usually a medium and back then
possibly even a small at times, but I was SO self conscious, I didn’t feel
comfortable wearing anything less than really baggy and extra big. Once on Kwajalein, I gained confidence and by
the time I left, I was wearing clothes that were definitely more appropriately
fitted to me. My self-esteem grew up,
you could say. Appearance impacts how I
feel about myself more than I care to admit. You know if I’m super tired, sick,
or having a bad day because I’ll be dressed in jeans and a sweatshirt to work,
but if I’m feeling positive and ready to face the day’s challenges confidently,
I will have a nice skirt and top on and my best shoes and accessories. When I’m feeling good, my style shines
through, which is kind of unique to me, I think, not sure I know how to
describe it exactly. Maybe you all who know me would be better at that. What
about you? What’s your style and what does it say about you?
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