There is no better time than now.

[gottawonder]

As I've been consolidating my clothes into one bedroom that will be used as a walk in closet, I have to say; I have a lot of clothes. Nice things that I rarely wear.

Part of it is that a lot of it wasn't fitting well anymore. I was reaching a point where I was going to out-fat a great deal of my clothing, as a lot of my clothes were all the same size and I was on the verge of going up a size. Sure, I could wear some of it with some discomfort, but who wants to wear something a little too tight? I've lost some weight, and I hope I can keep it off, because it puts me right back into being able to wear just about everything I own again.

Some of it is just never getting the chance. I used to wear some nice things to town, but when I started doing pottery a lot, it just seemed pointless to try to dress up and then change clothes at the studio. Half the time I was also riding first, so REALLY no point in trying to dress up.

The other problem is that weird thing, that feeling of not quite being ready to wear the nice clothes. Feeling like it would be out of place to wear a pretty summer dress to go buy groceries. Maybe also feeling like I don't quite deserve to dress up for no reason, or that dressing up for no reason is just a little "too much".

I think a lot of my clothes represent a desire to be somewhere warm, where I would be clean and just...walking along a beach on a warm day, wading a bit. A place where all of my simple linen clothes would fit right in, and my bright summer dresses would get lots of use.