I Sense a Theme
One of the hardest parts for me about moving from business casual to completely casual is that it’s really easy to just default to jeans and sneakers and t-shirts. Because that’s okay. My winter uniform (and winter did, in fact, last forever) was one of three things:
Jeans/t-shirt/hoodie
Jeans/t-shirt/cardigan
Jeans/sweater
Worn with, all winter long, the same pair of Frye Harness 12R boots that I am currently so very sick of…and haven’t worn for at least two weeks. It’s exciting. But I digress.
The fact is that I really like dressing up, and I wasn’t anymore. I even implemented Fancy Fridays for myself at work so that I put some of my dressy clothes to work again. It’s been working okay, but as the weather has ever so slowly warmed up, I’ve realized that I got rid of most of my spring dresses last year during a fit of rage over how nothing fit. This was probably due to the immense number of tacos and burritos I ordered last winter.
This brought me to Modcloth, a store I’ve browsed for ages but never bought anything from – sort of a budget Anthropologie, and I love Anthropologie beyond any other store. Modcloth, I’ve always felt, skews towards the just out of college vintage-loving girl, and I’m pretty far removed from college now. But finally I decided it didn’t matter, and yesterday I went shopping on my lunch break (at my desk, as you do):
Alma Mater of Fact
I work for a library tech company on a product named Alma. We have monthly seminars called Alma Matters. I had to buy this dress.
It’s not the only library related purchase I’ve made recently. I hit up Out of Print Clothing after seeing some pictures on Tumblr, and I ended up with two things. First:
Library Card Tote Bag
Which will probably be used to haul groceries and/or knitting.
A week later, when it came back in stock, I got this:
Library Stamp T-Shirt
Which doesn’t go at all with my plan to dress up a little more, but will look amazing with a black blazer and jeans, or the day-glo orange skirt I have sitting in my closet waiting for actual, real-live warm weather.
Plus, they both appeal to my inner nerd, which we all know is not all that inner.
I Sense a Theme was originally published on zonkered.net