White Heels Year Round

The most fashion conscious of women have followed the age old tradition of wearing white only between Easter and Labor Day.  And for many years, I was afraid of making this classless error and show my lack of fashion sense and proper style.  But for many of those years I lived in a climate that forbade such lapse to begin with.  The need to wear warm boots and heavy coats and sweaters left little room for white heels, white skirts, white slacks or white dresses.

It wasn't until I moved to Seattle that I changed my dressing habits.  The need to wear warm boots 7 months of the year was gone.  The need to wear heavy warm clothes for as many months was gone.  As I collected a wardrobe more suited to big city life, I expanded the colors and styles that I collected as well.  On a late warm September day who decided that I couldn't wear a cream colored skirt and white sandals?  Who said that on a cold, brisk windy late April day that I couldn't wear a heavy warm dark sweater?  Move over fashion editor!  I looked at pictures of folks who lived in tropical climates year round and I saw that they wore white year round - so why couldn't I?  Sometimes those classy white heels just made the dark outfit with the white trim for Thanksgiving or the deep green skirt with white pearl accents for Christmas.

I stand 5 foot two and I will wear short skirts until they don't look good on me any more.  I may be over fifty, but I have the legs to get away with short skirts (not hip high minis) and will wear them because they look good and I feel good when I look good. 

However, you wont find find me in skin tights from ankle to neck - not even at home!!  I know when the rolls and pounds look more like over stuffed squirrel cheeks! 

Neither will you find me in public in pants that hang down to my knees that I have to hold up with one hand in order to avoid a public display of my underwear while I walk on four inches beneath my shoes that I have to continually stop to pull up in order to keep my pants where I can hold them on and still keep from tripping over everything.

My mother would be severely offended if the pants I wore to the store had more holes in them than the vegetable strainer in my cupboard and most of them were so big that I had to hold the edges together with a safety pin bigger than the gear shift in my grandfathers 1945 chevy.  And she would be most embarrassed for me if two of those were right across the seat of my pants showing the color of my undergarments or the tender skin of my backside.

So what is fashion awareness all about?  When the trend setters show up for some premier performance looking more like a street beggar than a millionaire, I'd say that the book on dressing for success was thrown out when the check hit the bank.

I really don't care what you wear at home or away, but please - show up for work in clothes that do not need the care of a seamstress just to hide your undergarments, or that you have to spend all day holding on to with your hands in order to remain dressed.  If you can afford the big fancy truck on huge tires with a lift kit and custom paint and trim and interior, surely you can afford a pair of shoes that are held together with more than the bad odor left over from last century, that fit your feet and are not open enough to be considered an over sized combat boot for a two year old.

I'll take the white heels and short skirts any day of the year!!!!!!!!!!