Oh, if only I had Susan Wagner’s style! Believe me, I am trying. This past August I celebrated the loss of weight and inches thanks to my shredding and running by purging my closet. It was then, inspired by Susan’s own working closet posts that I resolved to stick to simple, classic and clean lines. It’s a work in progress but I’m working on it…working on it as best as I can with the limited Big Top budget.
Here is where I whine just a little that unemployment and underemployment sucks. It sucks big time!
The new holiday J. Crew catalogue arrived with its Shoe of the Month Club. How it taunts me. So does the opening of the new H&M store in a mall close by. Which brings me back to the above paragraph of whine once more.
But before the whine overcomes me completely in a pathetic self-pity wallow, I find myself looking to Susan’s challenge this month of thirty days of The Working Closet. Susan writes:
From the beginning, the idea was to replace traditional fashion media with an interactive community, one composed of women who were wearing a variety of sizes and shopping at a range of places. And while we defined ourselves as “working” women, we were pretty liberal about what constituted work:
The rationale is simple: seeing what other women are wearing to work (even if your office doubles as your kitchen table and your boss is still wearing diapers or napping every day) can inspire our own wardrobe choices. Fashion magazines are a wonderful source of information, but only if you’re planning to replace your entire closet every season. Seeing what other working moms are doing with that black skirt from five years ago and the ubiquitous jean jacket can actually be far more useful.
It seems that this is just the inspiration that I need while I try to restrain my shopping and shop from my own closet. So the past twenty days or so I have been shopping from my closet, planning and putting together my daily ensemble, taking my picture and posting it to the Working Closet Flickr Pool. It has been fun, just as Susan predicted. The advice, ideas and compliments only encourage me and reinforce my goal to keep my look simple, classic and clean Juggling has never been so stylish and classy!
Call me crazy but I can’t wait for the real cool, crisp-ness of Fall and Winter to come this way here in the Central Valley. Yes, that means
Grew my short ‘do from last year out and decided…Meh! I want to get out of the shower and shake my hair and go. I want to avoid the need for heat styling tools that just don’t go well with my hot flashes. I want something a little less heavy on my head and around my face. I want people to see my face…okay see my glasses THEN see my face.

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More than anything I NEED these for my birthday next month. My darling husband says he doesn’t read my blog, but if he did he would see this and know that this is what I want/covet/desire for birthday #47.




















