Reader Beware: this post is totally pointless- like really, extra pointless. It is all about the shirt I am wearing right now. Yeah, what can I say? I am having an intellectually slow week.
This is the shirt I am wearing today. I love this shirt because it is simple but classy. No matter what I look like (you can see the state of me, I didn't want to get ready today. But, I had to because: 1. I leave the house and work and 2. I have a goal to wear outfits and not just clothes) So i throw my hair up, put on yellow jeans, add this shirt and voila I look outfit-y. Sure it is not the most glamorous I have ever looked but this shirt is like the my work equivalent to a white t-shirt. It is easy it, but it just always looks good (like a white t-shirt) But because of the texture and other little fun details (note the seam about the chest and the thick hem at the sleeve) it is looks pretty professional (i.e. work appropriate). Oh how I love this shirt. 
Deciding what to wear to my job can be tricky; we are asked to dress business casual but jeans are allowed. So, most of the men wear collared shirts and jeans, easy enough. But then you get to the women and the standard gets a lot more difficult to define. Because jeans are allowed and lots of women don't wear polo shirts or collared shirts (look horribly masculine in a polo)... it kinda seems like anything goes (and by anything I mean you will see people in things like junk jeans and Nickelback t-shirts, which really bums me out and is not business anything). I like to look nice. I like to wear dresses and skirts, even when I don't have to. I like the way I feel when I look nice. However, we all have bad days, and when one hits it is hard to take the time to look really put together when you know no one cares if you don't. But this shirt saves me. Keeps me true to me and never lets me slide into total yuckiness, no matter how lazy I feel. Because, I think that my boss probably does prefer I look presentable and I know my husband appreciates when I look nice.
I have other shirts that will also help me out when I am in a bind , but this one is the best. It may not look like much to you, but to me it is an absolute dream. I am constantly looking for more shirts that have this same simple but lovely feel. What a little gem.
6 comments:
This is a nice little post about a great little shirt. You do love it. And it does work wonderfully for you. If I were to write about a favorite article of clothing it would probably be about my black, capri slacks (that I'm wearing) that are sadly fading from washings...
Congratulations on your marriage!!!
And congratulations on not buying the fuzzy skirt (as much as I love leopard skin, fuzzy is just too much)!!!
And post some wedding pictures for people like me who would have loved to see Bitty as a bride!!!
Thank you. It is good to hear from you. I know we need to post pictures, it is on the to do list, I promise.
oh you just distracted me from my real comment. POST PICTURES OR SOMETHING SERIOUSLY.
but as for shirts and business casual, i totally know what you mean. even though my dress code for my current life is definately t shirts, i feel a lot better if i take it up at least half a notch. that's why i love my summer red gingham shirt so much. which i'm wearing today.
"by anything I mean you will see people in things like junk jeans and Nickelback t-shirts, which really bums me out and is not business anything." very well said.
I have zero favorite articles of clothing right now because I am in the final days of maternity clothes. Getting dressed at this size into clothes that you have been wearing non-stop for almost 9 months is just stupid. I daydream (and actually sometimes dream at night) about going shopping for cute clothes and having a single-occupancy body to dress again. :)
first I love everyone was currently wearing their favorite things.
Jen, I laughed when I read "having a single occupancy body" and wearing the same thing for 9 months would get pretty old. Here's to that little baby coming soon.
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