Well, there are a lot of trends I'm not buying into this season, but I decided to take Angie's advice to add white. I've been doing it tentatively for the last summer or two, but now I'm all in and loving it! Here is an outfit I wore tonight to choir practice (complete with crystal earrings that read white), followed by my new white jeans. I can hardly believe I'm wearing this much white!
So why have I been avoiding white? So many reasons.
1. As a child I got a pair of white leather sandals every summer. I loved them but later I wondered if white was juvenile.
2. I spent two years of my young life working as a nurse's aide, wearing white shoes. Ug.
3. In 1988, when I had a two year old and a baby, I got tired of white pants getting dirty as soon as I put them on, and swore I would never wear white pants again. I stuck to this for over 20 years, when it dawned on me that I had an office job, no children, and wasn't going to the park every day.
4. In the early '90s I had a pair of white pumps that I wore with various outfits and one day I suddenly realized that they made me feel desperately frumpy. I never wore them again.
5. After some weight fluctuations I felt self conscious wearing white clothes.
6. I began to love cream, and thought I had to choose between cream and white.
7. I started favoring dark, monochromatic outfits, and there seemed to be less and less of a place for white in the composition of my outfits. (I had always loved contrast, but came to believe that contrast broke up my line unflatteringly.)
8. I read that you should never wear a shade of white brighter than the color of your teeth!
Well, I'm sure there were other reasons, but those are the ones I can think of. A happy result of my longtime fear of white is that now after years of no white, white seems so new and fresh and delightful!
So.... are you, or have you been, scared of white? Why? And are you wearing it now? Where do you like to wear your white? Is there any other color you're scared of?
So why have I been avoiding white? So many reasons.
1. As a child I got a pair of white leather sandals every summer. I loved them but later I wondered if white was juvenile.
2. I spent two years of my young life working as a nurse's aide, wearing white shoes. Ug.
3. In 1988, when I had a two year old and a baby, I got tired of white pants getting dirty as soon as I put them on, and swore I would never wear white pants again. I stuck to this for over 20 years, when it dawned on me that I had an office job, no children, and wasn't going to the park every day.
4. In the early '90s I had a pair of white pumps that I wore with various outfits and one day I suddenly realized that they made me feel desperately frumpy. I never wore them again.
5. After some weight fluctuations I felt self conscious wearing white clothes.
6. I began to love cream, and thought I had to choose between cream and white.
7. I started favoring dark, monochromatic outfits, and there seemed to be less and less of a place for white in the composition of my outfits. (I had always loved contrast, but came to believe that contrast broke up my line unflatteringly.)
8. I read that you should never wear a shade of white brighter than the color of your teeth!
Well, I'm sure there were other reasons, but those are the ones I can think of. A happy result of my longtime fear of white is that now after years of no white, white seems so new and fresh and delightful!
So.... are you, or have you been, scared of white? Why? And are you wearing it now? Where do you like to wear your white? Is there any other color you're scared of?
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