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I think I've hit overload.

Mo

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All of a sudden I feel like I've just had enough fashion. Maybe it's that the seasons are supposed to be changing but aren't. I can't wear most of the fall ideas I had eagerly floating around in my head. I think changing seasons breathe a breath of fresh air into our daily dressing routines and this eternal summer just has me at the breaking point. Nothing feels fresh or new. And I don't even have the desire anymore to stock up the fall arsenal, now that I hopefully scored the gray cords. Guess that makes it a perfect time to be SYC. Now I just wish mother nature would play along and we could get below 80 so I can get my juices flowing again. Anyone else feel stymied?

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Suz

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Oh, Mo - it sounds as if you are feeling so trapped in that place sometimes! I'm so sorry. I will cross my fingers for lower temperatures for you soon. And may those cords work out. I just took back a pair of the Gap legging cord jeans...they were okay and a nice colour (that sort of muchroomy grey) but there was something about the fit I didn't love.

chewyspaghetti

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Yep!
Mo I am right there with you. We are supposed to hit 70's this week, and I am ecstatic! It just doesn't feel like fall when it is still hot, and I am so bored of wearing the same stuff.

DressLover

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I don't currently, but I completely empathize with you. What you are going through right now is how I feel every late February/early March when I'm tired of dreary, cloudy weather that seems to reach its peak around that time.

Are you still planning to move? That will help shake things up for sure.

Mo

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Hm, Suz, you are right - I do feel kind of trapped I guess. I'm ready to move home to CA. I suppose between the injury this spring, the extra hot summer, and now no car to get anywhere I really have been trapped inside this house literally! Guess I'm just ready for life to change but it's not time yet . . . patience, patience.

Mo

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Khris and Dresslover, good to know the dragging on of a season affects you as well! I love fashion and clothes usually but I feel so meh about things at this moment.

chewyspaghetti

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I'm doing a lot of projects around the house and for Christmas to distract me- it has helped to give me some focus.

DressLover

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Mo, can you go run some errands in an overly air-conditioned building? Sounds weird, but mentally it would be refreshing.

Mo

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Dresslover, fine idea - except that to get anywhere a/c'ed I have to walk in the heat lol. Guess I will have to renew my 'dress up for the cat' intentions to keep the style muscles flexing and not go stir crazy.

DressLover

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Mo, another idea - why don't you work on photographing all you clothes and putting them into a interactive wardrobe program? (There are both desktop software and app options.) After you finish, you can start mixing things and photographing outfits for your archives.

Debbie

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I think Dresslover has a great idea. The heat is definitely getting to me too;. We had two cool days last week and now it is hot again. It will be fall soon....I hope!

Angie

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I so get it, Malina. When the forum is celebrating Spring from March to June - it's still Winter in Seattle, which drives me bananas. It's the flip side for you where the heat is relentless.

Come visit Seattle and wear your Autumn clothing all week!

Carole

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Like Angie said, we feel your frustration only in reverse. Hoping it cools down quicky so join in all the fall fun!

Mo

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Thanks for the commisseration, and ideas. Oh how I wish I could come see you in Seattle Angie! For now, I put on one of my fall 'idea' outfits even though it's just me and the cat. With the a/c up, I can pretend

Dresslover, I have thought (and even asked) about the digital wardrobe cataloging. It certainly will occupy me! I don't have an app but could at least get the pix taken. I'd have to unpack some of my stuff but, hey, repacking will occupy me too lol!

Irene

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Yeah, I feel like you here in Barcelona. Still hot, and almost november. Itwas a tad cold last week, but we're back to the warm weather, only it rains now too. Duh. At least I don't feel the need to actually get dressed and leave home? I wearing my boots and my raincoat already, but that's basically because I'm cold all-year-round. Most people wear sandals.

chewyspaghetti

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Mo- at least you can turn up the AC and pretend
I'm off to paint more furniture

rae

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I definitely know what you mean - when temps are supposed to be dipping, our weekends are now hotter than they were during the true summer. -_-

Crossing my fingers that you are freed from the heat soon.

celia

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Mo, I get it,that's how I feel in spring,even being inside the house.
What helps for me is to have projects, like Khris was saying.
What about showing us your outfit ideas?

Jonesy

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Yuck, Malina!!! If I had a private jet I would come down there, pick you up, and drop you off in California (after we did some shopping). This is not really specifically about your post, but I can't help wondering: is there any way you could make the trip back home by yourself, with your BF joining you when he is ready/able? I feel like you are so trapped there, and I want you to be "un-trapped" :)! Please feel free to tell me to mind my own business.

Mo

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Thanks again for the empathy everyone! I just hit a bit of a wall. Fashion helps keep me sane and entertained and the stalling out of the season just sort of took the fun and expectation of newness out of it.
Celia, I did don a fall idea but it fell sort of flat. You can't see the texture in the sheer stripes but it's a mix of wool and kind of nubbly. I wanted to wear a cream, brown and black striped knit scarf with it but it's in the CA closet (under the blue scarf in the basket). Admittedly, I changed out the long sleeves for my short 'stormy' cardi (pic 3) for the rest of the day. I liked the all white background for the cardi, so that was an unexpected surprise.
EDIT: and here were the shoe contenders. I guess they each work but I had a preference for the zipper bootie. A little less matchy matchy, which I can be guilty of!

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Suz

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Nice outfit, Malina, and I agree with your choice of the zippered bootie! It will look great with the scarf. And my, what an organized closet...

Michelle

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Oh Malina, *hugs.* I can totally relate. The temps didn't get consistently cool here until just last week, and II've actually been underdressing my layers just so I can actually feel the nip in the air and savour something I've been waiting months for! I really hope this gives way for you soon. But, seriously, what infernally hot place are you in that makes California seem cool?

Heather

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Haha, Malina! We have the opposite issue. I am still in mourning for my summer wardrobe.

Thinking of you, Friend!

Lisa

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Sorry to hear your weather is "stuck." We are moving right into late fall and boot weather. And I just moved into wearing my running sneakers, all the time. Silly healing foot! I cringe with every outfit but refuse to give in to lounge wear just because I can't wear the entire outfit the way I like. I'm a detail gal, and it took me a long time to "catalog" my wardrobe into an excel spreadsheet. Seeing the numbers have helped me organize, plan outfits and think of new combinations. Perhaps you can catalog your clothes?

Mo

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Lisa, I forgot that you were dealing with the healing foot now, too. Bummer to stare at all your pretty shoes longingly while you lace up the 'sensible' ones, huh?
I have not yet done the photo logging of my clothes but just may start. Maybe if I do just tanks one day, long sleeves the next, etc I will get through it in a week.

Michelle, I am on the gulf coast of FL right now and it's been a hotter, longer summer than usual. Home is in Tahoe, over 6,200 feet up in the Sierra Nevada mountains, so much cooler! I had temps in the high 70's for my walk this evening, so it was a bit of a respite.

tarzy

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I totally sympathize. I grew up on the east coast, and now live in ever-sunny LA. I am not an ever-sunny person. Today we had light drizzle and clouds and I was incredibly happy.
What on earth is an interactive wardrobe program? (She asked, intrigued ...)

CocoLion

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My father, grandmother, great grand-mother and her aunt (who raised her) all grew up here in the exact same spot in CA near Yosemite. So that would be, the same property since 1853 where I live and work. I have learned from my now-deceased elders that, over the years, our fall and spring are both getting shorter. We have longer summers and longer winters now. Yet we all know it's fall and spring that are the most enjoyable seasons, style-wise. You have much more freedom to express without temperature extremes. I wonder if this is happening anywhere else in the world?

Mo

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Denise, I believe that's true. It's odd how our planet's cycles shift. I am a 3rd generation Los Angeles native myself, maybe that's why the CA style is so deeply rooted for me too?
Tara, I became intrigued by lyn*s wardrobe app on her iPad, I believe? I don't have a smart phone so I would have to find a PC program. But the idea is you take pics to catalog what you have and then you start marking what you wear together and it eventually makes suggestions based on what you have and what you've worn? I think just the having pics clearly all laid out would make mixing and matching easier for me. I could line up all 15 tanks in a row above all 10 pairs of jeans, for instance, and then browse my 8 blazers for a finishing piece. That kind of thing. It would certainly occupy my spare time just getting the pics taken, lol.

tarzy

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Mo - I can't tell you how much time I waste on Polyvore. I often search for items I have bought and try to make sets with them. I also make sets with things I think I'd like to buy - the only problem with that is sometimes when I actually see the item in real life, it isn't quite the same color, or it just don't look as good with the other things as it did in my set. Still - it's fun to play. Like grown-up paper dolls!

Isabel

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YES !!! She screams from New England !

I had to go into the city today for some of my anti-cancer treatments. I was all excited to go the the big, upscale mall. I was going to hit Nordies, Ann Taylor, Talbots and so on. I had go on line and had a list.

I got there. and. I. just. couldn't. do. it. I was overwhelmed, overloaded, tired. Yuck.