Getting all dressed up

As I said to my husband, it must go back to my childhood when I saw my mother  beautiful, shining and sweet-smelling, all dressed up to go to the theatre. It just was the family way to get dressed up to go to an event like that - a play, a concert...It was a more dressed-up time, but I still like to do it, even in this more casual age.  You know, what, it perks me up to be able to bring out my thrifty finds and be able to put together a nice outfit for the occasion! Women used to go out & buy new hats to cheer up - maybe this is my equivalent.

We have been given a set of tix to the classical concerts at the Hollywood Bowl this summer.  And that's the thing about having the tix in your hand, is that you don't want to waste them...so despite the blues, I dragged myself around and put myself together for the concert.  And, you know, putting together an outfit was a tonic. And I got to gloat over my penny pinching, too.

I wore an Indian tunic ($7) over a long sleeved white t  ($4)- with the white nylon pants I got for $1 in Oxnard.  And the plastic straw platform sandals I got at the Salvation Army for $4...and I wore some of my "good" jewelry - a little turquoise choker ($10) & a bracelet of off-green-blueish stones I got at a Greek Faire ($7)...And topped it off with my light woolen Indian shawl in off-pink ($10, too, I think)... So, the outfit was less than $50 - even including my Italian plastic handbag ($7)....A penny pinching triumph. 

Now, my husband just likes me looking nice.  He really has no sense of what it would take in the real world to pull that off.  (As we well know, the tunic or the shawl alone could cost $50...)  But then I find it funny that the media keeps on telling me how people routinely spend $6 a day at Starbucks without thinking about it.  ($30 in a workweek for coffee??)  And my choices have a classic quality to them.  Indian tunics go in and out of the mainstream stores, but I have always liked them and have been wearing them since hippy days...ditto shawls, ditto platform sandals (I am short)...Of course, it comes together in a different way now than it did then...As I get older, it all seems to get simpler and simpler...Makeup, hair and everything.  And due to my penny pinching, I can still indulge my taste for dressing up!

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