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I'm going to preface this post with the fact that we ALL have bad body image days. Today is such a day for me. I tried on about 10 things after writing this post and I didn't like ANY of them on me. This tells me that it's in my head today. While it's not the most flattering outfit, it's probably fine and I'm stuck in my head today, as everything else wasn't right either.
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So, this is a shirt. However, but I might move it to my pajamas. I can't make up my mind how I feel about it. I think I'd like it A LOT more with the right belt, but I have no belts. I've never needed them much, as I've always had good fitting jeans (and a butt and hips to hold them up. lol) Even if I DID have belts, I doubt I'd have the *right* belt for this look, as I'd want to go with a gunmetal and silver color with a touch of burgundy and well, yeah. I'd not have that in my wardrobe. *shrugs* Oh well. No belt and I look like I'm wearing pajamas and jeans. *smh* Today isn't starting off very well for me.
This is NOT the most flattering look on me. I know this. It is, however, comfy. So I'll roll with it today. It's only 75 out today, so it's not terribly hot. I had my hair up at the start of this, but then I wanted to take a picture of my earrings so I put my hair down and left it that way for the rest of the pictures. I wear it up a lot as I can't stand the feeling of hair in my face, or on the back of my neck. I should just shave the bottom hairs and get it over with, but I can't seem to commit to it. lol.
My earrings are amazing however - from Amrita Singh - and I love them. They're gunmetal in color and fun to wear. Not heavy at all and kind of have a satisfying gentle swishy tinkle sound when I move my head.
I *almost* wore make up today. I might put some on later and come back and edit the blog/make another post. It may or may not happen. I guess check back in later today and see if it made it (or just come back tomorrow). lol
I'm not a huge fan of Torrid jeans to be honest. They don't really fit right, they never stay where I want them to stay and I miss Lane Bryant's perfect fitting TT jeans already. *sigh* These are Torrid's jeggings. I'm not a huge fan, but they'll do. The shirt was on sale in the clearance section. It's long, which honestly DOES make it look like jam-jams.
Pants and shirt by Torrid, Raspberry Truffle Tieks by Tieks. :)
This was the most flattering shot I could get today, and it's a good one. But let's look at the reality shots, shall we?
I'm leaning against the rail and the rose bush totally snagged my shirt. lol.
Eh, not too bad.
Reality of Torrid jeans falling down. They NEVER STAY and I've got hips and a butt! I hate belts usually, so I won't really wear one. But because they fall down, you get belly rolls. Which is fine. *shrugs* reality. But not terribly flattering.
Same.
Just being silly now. But hi, real talk, belly, thighs, arms. I'm a big girl!!
The funny thing is that while I see imperfections, I showed these to my husband and he goes, "You're so cute." and kissed me. I said nothing about how I felt about them, just that I wanted to show him my outfit of the day. He's always loved me for ME and not for what I look like. I wish more people saw the world like he does.
We focus too much on our imperfections. And I try really hard not to, but it's honestly hard for me not to go change into something else today because of what *I* see and pretend this outfit never even happened. I won't, because it's comfortable, and while I don't feel like it's terribly flattering, it's not AWFUL either. Am I comfortable in it? Yes. As comfortable as my lemon dress? Oddly - no. I'm not. And that dress exposes far more of my insecurities in general this this one does. Here, my arms are covered and my legs are covered and it's less revealing in general. But it's not as comfortable for some reason. It's interesting how clothes can make us feel.
I might end up throwing on something else today too. I'm not sure yet. But for now, this is outfit of the day, #26.
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