Day 32 - Dressing for your body 101

I know I have touched on this topic in the past, but I thought it might be worth mentioning in a different way.  Have you noticed that the older you get, the wiser you get?  Well, maybe you don't notice, but trust me, it's happening.  Or, at least should be happening.  I definitely know people who, I swear to you, get more stupid the older they get.  And I guess that happens when you get to be ancient, but I feel like, the older you get the easier decision-making should become because you have past experiences to rely on.  Well, part of getting older and wiser, comes the responsibility to act older and wiser.  Example.

By the time you are in your mid-twenties (and that is being generous, people), you should know how to dress for your body.  Haven't you figured out by now that no one sees your tag, so who cares what number, letter, or combination of the two, are printed on your tag!?  Buy something that fits.  I was shopping with my sister-in-law a few weekends back, and without even saying a word, I knew we were both thinking the same thing.  There was a woman shopping in the shoe department who was wearing an outfit that had to have been three sizes too small.  And for what?  She didn't look good.  She didn't look put together.  She looked like a mess.  It is one thing to be a confident, and sophisticated woman.  But to walk around looking like a hot mess, is just unacceptable.  That woman needed a life less on knowing how to dress for the body she had.

Then there are the women who "dress to impress" (or at least think they are dressing impressively).  Unfortunately, though, those women are more than likely dressing to draw the attention of a man.  Hate to break it to you honey, but the older you get, the more you should start dressing for the women in your life, not the men that you hope to have in your life, and trust me, the attention you are most likely getting isn't from the type of man you want in your life anyways.  I usually feel bad for the women and girls who don't know (or do know, and don't care) about the type of image they are portraying. 

I know I have said this before, but the advice I ever got in college was during sorority recruitment, when we were reminded constantly that were dressing to impress the ladies, and not the young, impressionable men at the frat party (although once you were in the sorority the tune change a little...haha).  So keep that in mind when you get dressed in the morning.  Are the women in your office, or in your class, going to compliment your outfit?  Or is the pervert sitting next to you going to compliment you?  There is a time and place to get the pervert's attention (like when you are out with friends at a bar and it would mean free drinks for you, of course).  At that point, by all mean, shake what your mama gave you, and get those free bevies.  But whilst in the workplace, please, for the love of god, get a shirt that fits, and a sweater to go over it.  You'll thank me later (and if you don't, then your co-workers will).