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Dress code

Whaaat? CNN writing about people with *gasp* alternate ideas of self presentation? I do really appreciate the notion “It’s all too easy to become devoured by your job and to forget that there are things outside of the cubicle”- but that’s not really my issue with dress code. I work at a University, in a costume shop in the Theatre and Dance department. That’s pretty liberal for a paycheck that comes from the State.

Actually, I find my sense of self and style consumed by my issues with chronic pain. I’ve got enough energy to get on a clean shirt and pants everyday, but I wake up in such a fog that I hardly ever remember that I have an assortment of favorite necklaces, scarves, and a really awesome mascara. I emerge from my daze at 9am, standing at my work table feeling like a frumpy slacker who has no business dressing people for a living. It makes me feel like a fake. I’d actually be within bounds to dress like the lady above. It’d be like a calling card. The best I can do consistently is wear a sweater than has a really interesting knit. Well, that and I’ve got tattoos on my arms and chest, but I don’t have to work very hard at their daily maintenance.

I wish so desperately that I could stand to wear my funky boots and pull on snazzy leggings, but reaching my feet and staying on them all day is pain inducing spectacle no one likes to watch. I can’t always take a shower when I’d like to, because sometimes my legs just won’t work. I wear my hair in a pony tail practically everyday, because of this. I can’t stand clothes shopping, taking off my pants more than once a day is exhausting, and I am VERY hard on my shirts, as I play with paint and sharp objects all day.

This is one of the small things I want to reclaim. I’ve got a doctor’s appointment tomorrow, so let’s call that “Day 1” of my challenge.

I have a MASSIVE….

…file of all the pretty/interesting/informative dresses, outfits, costumes, paintings, and fashion I liked- that I have been adding to for about eight years. It’s over 10,000 images. It would crush me to lose it- I would love to know what online file storage people prefer for Jpegs and the like. Cloud? Mozy? Carbonite?

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