9 Dec

What I Wore: An Exercise in Narcissism

This, for the record, is not my fault. Last Thursday, I shared the latest installment of the New York Times’ “What I Wore” feature with my co-worker Blair, as the gal-about-town they’d picked that week was Archie Panjabi, and we both like The Good Wife. I mockingly mentioned how terrible my version of this feature would be, because I am the exact opposite of a clothes horse, and Blair said “You should write it!” So I did.

I made it into a diary project, writing up each outfit every day.

It… was weird.

THURSDAY, DEC. 1

Because of the LA windstorms, it’s awfully chilly out, so I put on a giant shapeless sweater dress from H&M over Target leggings. Shoes: Sketchers Shape-Ups (which I bought because they’re nice sensible loafers that feel a bit like moonshoes when you walk and are therefore super-fun to wear). No socks, GigaOM Network embroidered windbreaker to keep out the chill on my way home. With me as always is my red leather shoulder bag by Fossil, which is big enough to hold multiple electronic devices and crumpled receipts, and looks like shit because I use it every day — wait, I mean, it’s fashionably distressed. Yeah.

Note: How many people really use multiple bags in a week? Why go through all the effort of putting all your crap into a new bag each day? Aside from fashion, I guess. Right.

FRIDAY, DEC. 2

I drive into work wearing Gap straight-leg jeans, the aforementioned Sketchers, and a sweater I got in the 7th grade that has miraculously survived over a decade of washings. Belt by H&M. Initially, I had planned to go out to a nerd craft expo that night, but exhausted from the week and behind on writing, I end up staying in, swapping jeans for paisley print pajama bottoms (a Christmas present from my parents, I think from Macy’s?) and thick socks.

While the idea for this began last Thursday, I didn’t commit to writing this until Friday afternoon. Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle applies going forward.

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