Fashion Faux Pas Day
Today must have been Fashion Faux Pas day. It seemed that all around me, people made really poor fashion choices. First I saw a lady with capri pants, socks that stopped mid calf, and those loafer slides that you would normally wear with a pair of slacks because you have been in heels all day and you want to give your feet a rest. I know it was a little chilly this morning and she may have been cold, but doesn’t it just make more sense to put on long pants, or forego the socks and turn on the heater in your car? If I had my camera, I would have taken a picture. But then again, I am glad that I didn’t because that would have been rude.
A little later, I saw an amazon of a woman wearing a black blazer, white button down shirt, and a plaid schoolgirl skirt with sheer pantyhose and wedged heels. A cute look (minus the sheer hose, and wedged heels) if you’re 17, or Paris Hilton. But when you’re over 40… yeah… not so much. There is just something bizarre about a completely grown woman dressed like a sexy school girl in public, especially if it is not Halloween. I do have to say that she did have very nice, very long legs. Unfortunately, if that skirt had been any higher, the whole coffee shop would have seen all of her business. I actually wished that I had my camera for this one because the fact that she imposed that outfit on the world at her age was extremely rude and completely uncalled for.
Later I went to a concert on the beach. I can’t begin to count how many girls I saw with teeny tiny skirts and high heels, on the beach. What is that? For goodness sake, it’s the freakin beach! It is one of the few places where you can and should go barefoot in public, and these girls were in 3 inch hooker heels. Apparently, common sense is truly not common.
Maybe everyone is floating around in some kind of fashion twilight zone, or maybe, I was just a little more observant today than usual. Either way, there are two rules that apply when getting dressed and actually leaving the house. First, if you have to keep pulling your skirt down, hint, the damn thing is too freakin short. And two, a full length mirror is your friend, actually take the time to look in it, turn around and look at yourself from behind, try to see what the rest of us will be seeing when you bend over to pick up change or something else off the ground. Yeah! see! exactly! We don’t want to see all that before we have had our coffee early in the morning either.
