Of course I believe few enough things, but one thing is sure, that you can't open Christmas presents in anything but pajamas. That would be wrong. I even have a special Christmas morning shirt:
However, this Christmas being a Sunday, I did have to get properly dressed for church and all.
Slightly lousy picture, but I couldn't figure out the lighting in a new location. Anyway, at church I seemed to catch a fairly surprising amount of hostility. I slipped out to the bathroom in the middle of services between musical numbers and was given a couple of full body scans and scowls from the women standing in the back with irritated children. My sister goes to a Mormon church, but I was raised Mormon and am fully able to dress myself appropriately for church (and I had the shawl fully covering my shoulder actually in church). I don't know if standards have changed or if hopeless spinsters like myself are expected to be more mild and, I don't know, pastel. Perhaps the rumors we always heard about Utah mormons being more cliquish and judgy than the rest of the world, but that seems a little unfair of me to conclude with so little data. Oh well, I think I was fabulous.
Of course I had loud bright green eyeshadow (which lots almost subtle in this picture compared to the real-life equivalent) and red lipstick.
Outfit details:
Dress: Target, a million years ago
Shawl: shady-looking Pashmina market outside the West Nanjing Road metro station in Shanghai
Shoes: Target, this season
Jewelry: Art of Adornment
Lipstick: Revlon, Certainly Red
Eyeshadow: Shiro cosmetics: Link around eye and in crease, Bulbasaur below crease, and Outright Fabrication (white with subtle but fun specks of red glitter) above.
Anyway, have a happy New Year! I have exciting plans involving a bottle of Cupcake Vineyards Prosseco and a large bowl of
shrimp and grits
4 comments:
I don't see anything wrong with your outfit. In fact, I think it's beautiful and very festive. Don't worry about that woman. Maybe she was just jealous.
A Mormon friend of mine complains about that very thing- if you're not in the Popular Club, they throw shade. Fooey on them, you look marvelous. You remind me of a ballerina.
Some religious people feel they have to be judgmental, like they get points for it or something. You look gorgeous. Love the jewelry, especially!!
The pictures (especially the face close-up) do not do her, or the outfit, justice. She looked wonderful! The clothes were perfectly modest, even by the strictest Mormon standards. some people!
VictorianKitty: you are so right! I do not understand how religious types can be so extremely well-versed in every Biblical scripture that points to the misdeeds of others, but have somehow missed the verse where Christ admonished, "Judge not." (BTW: it's Matt: ch. 7, vs. 1)
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