Disclaimer: long and very introspective.

Dear YLF,
This past few days I have been at home sick hence no WIW posts but before I had a whole month of outfits in which to ponder about my style and what I want from my clothes.
As I was saying in a recent thread from Una I always loved clothes for their own sake, and always enjoyed looking at magazines and how to's about dressing.I don't think I had bad taste but there was a clear disconnection between me and my clothes.
For some strange reason(and this is not necessarily a compliment on my person) I cannot seem to fade into the background. Whenever I tried to be that low profile, sweet person,dressed in calmer hues, people would still noticed me, I just came across as frumpy.
After I had DD getting a hold on who I am and what image do I want to project became a way of survival in my SAHM world.
I owe a world of gratitude to Angie(and Greg) for this blog and this forum.In the old metaphor Angie really teach us how to fish instead of just giving us the fish.
And being able to have people , stylish and wonderful intelligent women themselves, give their opinions and advice has broaden the way I see fashion and individual style.

So what are my conclusions?

-I wanna be perceived as creative and fun. This was missing from my previous way of dressing and it was a serious disconnection between my personality and my clothing.Mother nature gave me a saintly look(even more when I was a teenager) and people tended to think that I could only do what was proper and dull, which is ok for a certain type of work but not when you interact with people in your everyday life.

-I am the most dress up SAHM in DD activities and that is totally ok with me.When I take DD to her activities I am almost sure that people think that I work outside of home, and that is perfectly fine. I prefer that to be frumpy (see 3rd paragraph).

-I am not afraid to wear color anymore. If it is a color that suits me and makes me memorable I am also fine with it.

-I get a kick out of using wardrobe capsules. Having some kind of capsule wardrobe per week and mix and match within it works for me.

-The line between what I wear in my every day life and on more dressier occasions needs to be more defined.Usually I would downgrade dressier clothes for everyday dressing when they got old but that was no fun. I need to have decent everyday life and a totally different set of clothes for dressier occasions. Some may overlap and this is something I have to work on.

-There are items that have always been in my wardrobe in one version or other, and those might be the defining items of my style. I also will work on this and present my results to you.

And that it's all folks. Sorry for the rambling and if you read all of this you are indeed very gracious.

Thank you for being there.