Sanguine Tenacious Tidings

Fashion

How has your fashion sense changed in the last 5, 10, 20 years?







What fashion sense?

I grew up on a farm. I wore blue jeans and blouses all my life. Now I wear jeans and t-shirts in the summer and sweat pants, long sleeved t-shirts layered with short sleeved t-shirts, and sweaters to keep warm in the winter.

If I go out shopping which is pretty much the only time I go out. I try to wear feminine slacks and dressier blouses and coats that are female and suit the weather. I leave the house to go for walks, do barn work, and sometimes ride bikes, although we did not do any bike riding this summer.

Female attire, jewelry, shoes, boots, etc. is my attempt to keep my real identity alive. This summer my granddaughter was here for several weeks. We shopped for fingernail polish and I had a good time painting my nails. I have some long skirts and really nice feminine clothes but they are stored in boxes and I need to know before hand to take them out and make them presentable.

I'm overly practical when it comes to attire because I have to take care of myself and protect myself. (weather can be great or harsh)

I like my hair long but cannot find a way to keep it properly and still look nice if someone unexpected shows up at my door or I have to go out shopping without preparation etc. Between the age of 60 and 65 I put in hundreds of applications but could not get a job. Fashion takes money which I don't have.

Here is a little recent happening. I went to buy new glasses in a Walmart. While sitting in the waiting room an elderly lady with a walker came in and sat in a chair close to me. Her daughter was with her. The daughter went over to the racks and started picking out glasses frames for her mother to try on. The elderly lady and I struck up a conversation. She already had a prescription so all she needed was to pick out some frames.

The daughter returned with several frames in her hand and handed one to her mother, "Try these on she said," in a very commanding sort of way. The elderly lady took the frame and looked it over and said, "I don't look good in this type of frame." Her daughter replied, "You're too old to care about how you look, elderly people don't need to worry about how they look, no body cares." The elderly lady looked right into my eyes and shrugged. I laughed and said, "Your daughter doesn't know much about elderly people does she?" A comment which the daughter heard. The elderly lady and I had a good laugh about a couple things after that but the daughter calmed down and started being more solicitous toward her mother. When I left they were picking out frames together.

I like being and looking feminine. But, real fashion to me is more a city thing than a country thing. Besides Keith is always in a hurry to get out the door. I'm always the person checking to turn out lights or shut down heaters or lock up cats and dogs. or shut doors etc. Prevention Magazine is more me than Vogue.