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Post by tara on Aug 19, 2019 14:59:03 GMT
Don't you think that perhaps myshelly is having some fun with this thread? I really don’t understand why anyone had made a big deal about anything I’ve said in this thread 🤷🏻♀️ None of it seems odd to me. My kids see all the cool stuff that’s happened to them and the attention they get for being a cute family and love it (I mean, do you have any idea how much cool stuff you get chosen to do at WDW and Universal when you’re the cute family in the cutest matching clothes). My kids can go out in a potato sack and still be cute. But you do you boo.
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Post by gar on Aug 19, 2019 15:07:25 GMT
I don’t wear jeans. I know that I’m very privileged to not have to worry about anything bigger than this 🤷🏻♀️ But this is *my* real life and I enjoy it immensely. It’s my personality and my thing and I love it. Through jr high and high school my teachers called me “myshelly and the amazing technicolor dream wardrobe” and through law school and my legal career everyone called me Elle I don't wear jeans either. Maybe rarely when it hits sub zero temps and we need to dig a car out of the snow, and almost never on a day I am teaching. I understand having "a thing" and enjoying the attention for it. I make my own jewelry and almost always wear a coordinating pin/corsage that I make out of fabric (resembles a flower like a peony). I like envisioning what I want and making it, both the process (crafty) and bc I'd never find exactly what I want in a store. My students and colleagues, as well as strangers, will often remark on it, and several coworkers got me to agree to a little craft session where I showed them how to make one themselves. It's just my thing. I understand the concerns about control and the randomness of life, but everyone will have to face that in their own way when the time comes, assuming it does. My SO chooses to coordinate with what I am wearing when we go out. I have nothing to do with it beyond me telling him I'm wearing a red dress or whatever. It surprised me at first, bc it felt a little prom-y, but now I just think it's sweet. And our pictures look nice too. 😉 ??
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Post by nogfz on Aug 19, 2019 15:46:32 GMT
The last 2 paragraphs are tmarschall's response to myshelly. Somehow, her reply ended up in myshelly's text box.
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Post by gar on Aug 19, 2019 16:16:33 GMT
The last 2 paragraphs are tmarschall's response to myshelly. Somehow, her reply ended up in myshelly's text box. I was wondering about the photo - for a minute I wondered if tmarschall and myshelly had met up! 😀
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2019 16:26:32 GMT
I do well to get out the door dressed. One day I went out to the garage and realized I forgot my dress. Had my shoes and underclothes on but no dress. Today I got in the car and realized I was still wearing my house slippers instead of shoes.
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Post by nogfz on Aug 19, 2019 16:34:56 GMT
The last 2 paragraphs are tmarschall's response to myshelly. Somehow, her reply ended up in myshelly's text box. I was wondering about the photo - for a minute I wondered if tmarschall and myshelly had met up! 😀 I wondered that about the photo, too, for a second.
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Post by tmarschall on Aug 19, 2019 18:12:56 GMT
The last 2 paragraphs are tmarschall's response to myshelly. Somehow, her reply ended up in myshelly's text box. I was wondering about the photo - for a minute I wondered if tmarschall and myshelly had met up! 😀 Lol, nope sorry...I had to switch to the desktop version from mobile and the formatting got wonky.
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Post by tmarschall on Aug 19, 2019 18:14:30 GMT
I was wondering about the photo - for a minute I wondered if tmarschall and myshelly had met up! 😀 I wondered that about the photo, too, for a second. And the photo is me in the middle with coworkers after our craft session. Coordinating with my sweetheart is one thing....I don't do matchy matchy or any such thing with my colleagues, lol.
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Post by Dalai Mama on Aug 19, 2019 18:39:15 GMT
For me, I plan it digitally on the StyleBook app.
My kids can wear whatever tf they want as long as it's clean. My son once wore orange swim goggles and two different shoes to watch Les Mis.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2019 18:51:19 GMT
I had a good laugh last night when we were getting ready for bed, both me and the husband were wearing Superman undies. Is this the top of the slippery slope to coordinating outfits?
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Post by gar on Aug 19, 2019 19:10:41 GMT
I had a good laugh last night when we were getting ready for bed, both me and the husband were wearing Superman undies. Is this the top of the slippery slope to coordinating outfits? Worry when you start fancying matching anoraks ok? 😉
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Post by dewryce on Aug 19, 2019 19:11:54 GMT
I had a good laugh last night when we were getting ready for bed, both me and the husband were wearing Superman undies. Is this the top of the slippery slope to coordinating outfits? Maybe your future is an x-rated version of this. Your DH will get involved and you’ll get (small) packages in the mail with matching (tiny) lingerie The question is...will it have a superhero theme? I bet there is a hot Wonder Woman outfit just waiting to be a part of your adventures.
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Post by prapea on Aug 20, 2019 0:25:35 GMT
Reading some of the responses on this thread, I am not sure what and how I feel.
So a mom plans/coordinates outfits and is happy about it. Why is it ok to judge her or make comments that she needs help or about her husband’s salary or her economic status?
I dress well. I am very picky about how I look when I go out. But at the same time, you will see me swing by the grocery store after gym in my workout clothes. I know that people who want to judge me will do so no matter what I wear. So I wear what makes me happy and comfy.
I work from home and everyone assumes that I probably work in my PJs. But I am almost always dressed in a jeans or a skirt or a dress. But if you like to work from home in PJs, more power to you.
To the OP - check out ikea/wayfair/overstock/amazon. These sites have some cheap and best clothes valet stations that don’t take up much space.
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Post by gar on Aug 20, 2019 10:04:05 GMT
Reading some of the responses on this thread, I am not sure what and how I feel. So a mom plans/coordinates outfits and is happy about it. Why is it ok to judge her or make comments that she needs help or about her husband’s salary or her economic status? It’s not in isolation, that’s why people responded the way they did. It’s part of a bigger picture that the majority here find somewhat unusual and perplexing - not that that should mean rudeness or unkindness are ok. And myshelly has been known to be rather blunt about other people’s choices from time to time too.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2019 10:23:55 GMT
I think we'd look adorable in pale blue matching velour tracksuits, the husband, however, does not
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Post by gar on Aug 20, 2019 10:25:49 GMT
I think we'd look adorable in pale blue matching velour tracksuits, the husband, however, does not How odd! I can’t think why?! 🤔
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Post by compeateropeator on Aug 20, 2019 14:20:44 GMT
Reading some of the responses on this thread, I am not sure what and how I feel.
So a mom plans/coordinates outfits and is happy about it. Why is it ok to judge her or make comments that she needs help or about her husband’s salary or her economic status?I dress well. I am very picky about how I look when I go out. But at the same time, you will see me swing by the grocery store after gym in my workout clothes. I know that people who want to judge me will do so no matter what I wear. So I wear what makes me happy and comfy. I work from home and everyone assumes that I probably work in my PJs. But I am almost always dressed in a jeans or a skirt or a dress. But if you like to work from home in PJs, more power to you. To the OP - check out ikea/wayfair/overstock/amazon. These sites have some cheap and best clothes valet stations that don’t take up much space. I agree to some extent about the judging, but I think some of the comments are being said more because of who they are directed to. They might not be vocalized or quite as tell it as you see it to someone else. myshelly always makes strong and definitive comments about people’s choices, at times perceived as harsh and condescending by some (me...hahaha). But I give her credit for never deviating from her comments and never caring about what is thrown back at her. She truly takes it as well as she gives it. She adds into the diversity of personalities on this board, ones that I would never see in my everyday existence. I will admit to really enjoying that and being fascinate by some things that I read here. It is why I love it so.
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Post by scrappintoee on Sept 16, 2019 1:27:21 GMT
OP.....did this thread help you come up with a good system?
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Post by ~summer~ on Sept 16, 2019 1:36:34 GMT
I have to fancy wearing an outfit so planning ahead isn’t my cup of tea even though I can see it might save time in a busy life. I have to see what I fancy wearing that day - I can’t imagine planning far ahead at all. myshelly - do you change your mind some days? I’m guessing you live where the weather is pretty predictable- mine would probably be unsuitable for the day’s weather 7 times out of 10! And then there’s also the issue of whole family coordinating. If my family leaves the house together, then we coordinate, with the boys in themed clothes that match the activity and me in colors that coordinate with their outfits. So, for example, there’s a big Monet exhibit here. The boys had button down dress shirts made out of a water lily fabric and I wore coordinating pastels. You can’t just change that at the spur of the moment. Or if we’re going to the theatre the boys will have bow ties made with the logo of the show on them and I’ll dress in coordinating colors. If we’re going to the science museum they’ll have science shirts, natural history museum dino fossil shirts, lego exhibit LEGO shirts, etc. Or if someone is having a party you dress in the theme of the party. Like last weekend my niece had a Sleeping Beauty birthday party so I wore Maleficent leggings and my boys wore dragon maleficent outfits. That makes up a large percentage of our dressing. Oh my gosh I don’t even know what to say....
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Post by ~summer~ on Sept 16, 2019 1:41:17 GMT
To answer the question - probably a couple times per week I lay out my clothes ahead of time - usually if it’s if I have an important meeting or if I just want to wear something that I haven’t worn in a while. Or when the seasons are getting ready to change (like now) I’ll try to wear my warm weather linen blouses and skirts before it is time to switch to black wool and cashmere lol.
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Post by ihaveonly1l on Sept 17, 2019 0:59:45 GMT
OP.....did this thread help you come up with a good system? I'm getting better I like the over the door hook I have, but I'm still only doing two days at the most at a time. Part of that is that I'm just settling into work and the weather here in the upper midwest is above average warm, so it's just easier to dress right now. I am happy to say that I do always have it prepped the night before, so I'm not guessing in the morning.
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