Forced? Seems extreme. I think if there was a common denominator in my wardrobe it’s dresses. I love wearing dresses. Almost daily I put on a dress. I am not sure when this started, I didn’t always love dresses but more and more as I get older I appreciate them.
My last job was working in a clinic and we had to wear scrubs so I wore scrub dresses, even in winter with pantyhose. On casual Friday, a fancier dress or skirt. I read about successful people who have a “uniform” type of situation to minimize distractions and the time it takes to get ready in the morning and so I kind of went with that. Mondays I wore the looser fitting black scrub dress, Tuesdays was the purple button up dress, Wednesdays the blue scrub dress, and Thursdays the tight fitting black scrub dress.
Having that schedule made getting up in the morning and getting ready so easy and simple. Now that I work in a college and everyday is business casual, it’s a whole other story. Normally I don’t even pick out my outfit the night before much less plan it out for the week and sometimes getting dressed in the morning is pretty stressful and leads to a huge pile of tried on and taken off clothes on my bed and on the chair.
What I enjoy about dresses is their comfort. Specifically no waist band. Whether I’m at work or it’s the weekend, you will find me in a dress. When I’m at home, a dress and an apron over top. I feel naked without the apron now too. As soon as I get dressed the apron gets put on as well. It kind of gives 1950’s housewife but I make my own damn money.
I’ve become so accustomed to wearing an apron that I feel I can’t even put a load of laundry in the wash until I put one on. It’s kind of ridiculous. But there are some really cute aprons nowadays and I have a great little collection of them.
So back to the prompt, if someone said wear “this” til the day you die or else, it would be a dress and a cute apron over top.
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