Day 55

All right, I’ll be upfront with you. I’m on the fence about my outfit today, if only because it looks like the kind of thing I would have sketched in grade school that I would wear “as an adult*”:

Tulle dress, VS t, H&M tights, anthro headband, Hunter boots

This dress was one of my $5 Tulle final-sale finds, and I love love love love love it; but dressing it for winter-to-spring was trickier than I thought.

It’s a heavy canvas, and I love the piping; but it’s been a bitch trying to pair with tights (in a way that doesn’t make me look like a 1950s chorus girl**.) (Not that I have a problem with that; I just rarely wear enough makeup to pull off the look.)

Once I threw on the headband, though, it all came together (for better or worse).

At the end of the day, the dress fits like a dream, I love the shape and the colors, and it’ll be back in (heavier) rotation come spring and summer . . .

Here’s a close-up of the headband (which you have seen before):

anthro headband; lilac nails.

*Which, at 24, I would have absolutely worn – but at 27, is feeling just a little too young on me?

**This is not helped by the fact that the dress did actually come with a jacket, which, solo, makes me look like a member of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonelyhearts Club Band, but paired with the dress? Sticks me squarely center stage on a Busby Berkeley (thanks Rob!) musical. Probably carrying an old school suitcase and being overwhelmed by the size of the josh-darn buildings.