Thistle Down

The assumption is that if you wear colorful/interesting outfits you must (desperately?) want attention and comments from others.  I really don't.  I wear what I like; I wear what make me happy and I don't think too much about what anyone else thinks.  In fact, I've had to push through my shyness to make myself wear what I like because I knew it might get me attention and even though it was mostly positive attention that used to terrify me.  But, greater than my fear of being noticed was my love for clothes.  I cannot live my life in jeans/t-shirts or stretchy pants.  I Cannot.  Even if I were 

Previously mentioned items aside, I love clothes.  My parents have this old cassette tape recording of me when I was about five or six years old where I am describing a dream I had.  In the dream I found an abandoned cabin and it was full of beautiful dresses (side street here--one of the dresses had 3D roses all over it.  This was probably based on the 1983 Sweet Roses Barbie that I had had so long I didn't even know where it came from. Another had 3D hearts all over it.  I can't believe after so many decades, I still remember the dresses from my dream).  All this to say that the love has always been there and always will be, which is why all my efforts and progress at reining in my spending always grind to a halt when it comes to dresses.  But, back to my original point, I'm really not interested in attention.

What I really want is not attention for what I wear.  No, what I would love is for wearing beautiful/interesting clothes to become trendy again so that everyone's doing it and feeling amazing in the process and no one really notices me anymore because they're all busy happily admiring themselves.  

Today's outfit is a thrifted olive green dress with matching purple cardi and flats and it is inspired by the thistles which are already springing up around the farm.

Outfit Info: Maeve Dress-thrifted, VIVAIA shoes are old, Cardi is from YeMAK