Saturday shopping notes
Sep. 27th, 2008 05:48 pmI don't think this is going to be a good clothes season for me. Actually, I'm not sure it's going to be good for anyone, but what do I know? Maybe there are hordes of women out there who look great and feel comfortable in calf-length, flared, bias-cut skirts with loud plaid patterns, or sweaters with three-quarter sleeves and/or only one button, or pants with turn-ups. Turn-ups! I thought those went out in about 1970, and the skirts were giving me early-eighties flashbacks.
I eventually emerged somewhat mollified, with a pair of semi-dress slacks (dark brown), a cable cardigan (dark brown), an entirely frivolous faux-swede jacket (dark brown), a knit-fabric cotton skirt with a lace inset above the hem (dark brown), and a clingy, silky long-sleeved knit top in cherry red, but it was a fairly depressing experience. (I like dark brown, okay? And I don't care for muddy yellows and blues and greens, on the whole.)
Also, the lighting and mirrors in the Macy's dressing room were really unforgiving about the amount of grey in my hair.
I eventually emerged somewhat mollified, with a pair of semi-dress slacks (dark brown), a cable cardigan (dark brown), an entirely frivolous faux-swede jacket (dark brown), a knit-fabric cotton skirt with a lace inset above the hem (dark brown), and a clingy, silky long-sleeved knit top in cherry red, but it was a fairly depressing experience. (I like dark brown, okay? And I don't care for muddy yellows and blues and greens, on the whole.)
Also, the lighting and mirrors in the Macy's dressing room were really unforgiving about the amount of grey in my hair.
