In case you missed it, all of my blog post titles for the entire month of March started with the letter D. It began as a fluke, when I noticed I had inadvertently written the first 3 titles in this fashion (My last post in February
started with D as well). But after that, I couldn't not continue! It
was a little bit of a struggle coming up with D-words (thank goodness
for "DIY"), so I'm relieved that April has arrived and I can go back to
titling my posts with whatever clever (or un-clever, in today's case)
phrase pops into my mind first!
Now,
to segue into the topic of this post, let's travel back in time
to early in my D-Days, when I happened to comment on the fact that I have been embracing a more casual aesthetic in the workplace of late. I'm ready to discuss this topic at greater length! Remember when I used to complain
that jeans were the last thing I'd ever choose to wear to the office?
Well, my, how times have changed! It might be a phase (much like my obsession with blazers in 2013),
but right now, denim feels like the freshest way to express myself in
the office (it may also just be a manifestation of my exhaustion with
trying to look cute when the weather's cold).
I
have planned out a couple of work outfits for the next few weeks, and
my favorite ones of them all feature jeans. The tops that I never wanted
to wear again somehow became exciting when I put jeans on the bottom. I
work in a casual workplace, so why not make the most of it? Why bother
with my unflattering "professional" pants, and fussy, hard-to-wear skirts, when I can look better and feel happier in a pair of creatively styled jeans?
Case
in point: today's green silk blouse, which is a new one from Swap.com,
would have looked ladylike and lovely paired with a skirt, or classic
business-casual worn with black trousers. However, I didn't want to look
ladylike or businesslike. I wanted something different and unexpected.
So along with my elegant blouse (and over-the-top ornate earrings), I
wore a pair of well worn blue jeans and some chunky-soled forest green
oxford shoes.
Thus I combined
ladylike with aggressively masculine, and fancy with utterly casual. And
I had fun doing it! Expect to see more jeans in my workplace
future...at least until my next fleeting passion strikes.
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