From the draft archives: "Net fashion"

[This is a post I drafted during my freshman year (2011) and never posted. The plan was to take pics of my outfit for a week and then declare point values, but.....yeah that never happened. So now, I post it in memory of a time when I thought of things like this because it's funny to me.]

I have a dilemma. It's called "my mom keeps encouraging me to dress cute, and I don't know how to go about it." 

I also have a solution. It's called "net fashion." If I try to look cute one day, I don't have to fret over it the next day, and vice versa. 

Look. In the last couple days, I've worn both of these outfits for a day:

So clearly one of them is cuter than the other. Positive points one day, negative points the next day. I just have to keep my average around zero. It's a bonus if it starts to climb, but we'll just let that happen if it wants to. 



[2014 edit: I now generally wear what I consider to be "cute enough" outfits. These are about equivalent to the maximum of cute with which I was experimenting in 2011, but then I also use this same "net fashion" idea to step up my game for date nights and let down my guard for Saturdays. I guess my fashion average did climb after all! If nothing else, I at least feel more of an interest in looking presentable now. But I still have plenty of don't-care-i'm-a-bear* days. But no more cargo shorts, and free t-shirts only come out for yard work and stuff. What am I trying to say with this addendum? You won, Mom. And thanks.]



*See picture:

Was this a weird post? Yes. These things happen.