Playtime

I spent the past few days writing a serious post.  A Summary Of My Life type of post.  I'll put it up in a day or two.

To lighten my mood, I created an outfit today.  It is playful.  The polar opposite of serious.  My motivation is simply to be girly and play around.  The outfit itself is a wacky mishmash but honestly the clothes are only an excuse to have some fun.  Please don't judge this as a fashion ensemble; it isn't.

I paired an out-of-season orange Summer dress with throwback sparkly leggings from the Eighties.  And if that isn't weird enough, I color-blocked orange and purple, accentuated by brightly-colored flats.

The best part of this is the gaiety it provides me.  A recreational high.  Pulling items from my closet, imagining them in various combinations, wondering what orange looks like next to purple, I squealed with delight.  I like the sheen and ruching of the leggings.  I'm enjoying that kind of thing.

Dressing up is a drug for me.  Sometimes intoxicating, always enjoyable.  I know my clothes scare the horses but they shouldn't be out of their stable in the first place...