I Am What I Wore

One girl's quest to streamline and catalog her nostalgia-laden wardrobe.

Tag Archives: Hawaii

Too Much Is Not Enough!

Item: Dress/Tunic Color/Fabric: Black/Floral, cotton/silk Designer: Kenar Where Purchased: Marshall’s Years Owned: 3 I started writing this one week and one day ago. I wrote until I was physically and emotionally unable to form coherent words. And then I busied myself with knickers, buttons, swings, and corsets for a week. Now I am back, and …

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Brighter Than Sunshine.

Item: Tee-shirt Color/Fabric: Sunshine, cotton Designer: Rebecca Beeson Where Purchased: TJ Maxx Years Owned: Three Tonight, I am pondering a tee. This isn’t just any tee. It’s my Sure-Pack Vaycay tee. Finding a wonderful tee that is classic and special at the same time, and that fits, well, to a tee, is a rare and …

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Nightmare Hippy Girl.

Item: Dress Color/Fabric: Skye blue, polyester Designer: XOXO Where Purchased: The Salvation Army Years Owned: Three I am about to stir up a little trouble. Are you ready? This might hurt. It might hurt a lot. I’m going to talk about the thing that I don’t like to talk about. A thing that I have …

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Let’s Start At The Very Beginning.

Item: Vest/Tank Dress Combo Color/Fabric: Black, cotton Designer: Express Years Owned: 1.5 First on the agenda tonight is a clarification. I have put my eBay selling on hiatus for a bit, while I puzzle out ways to make it better for me. I don’t want to scrap it altogether just yet, because I like the …

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The Final Dress.

Item: Dress Color/Fabric: Lavender, polyester Designer: Kimchi Blue Where purchased: Urban Outfitters Years Owned: 1.5 Here it is, my friends. My last post of the year! Technically, I will be writing another one tonight, but it won’t post until after midnight, so I guess this is it. And I thought, what a better piece for …

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I Could Cry Salty Tears.

Item:  Skirt   Color/Fabric:  Turquoise and Royal blue, cotton   Designer:  Odille  Where Purchased:  Salvation Army   Years Owned:  1.5 It has been a somber sort of day.  I’m not sure if it is the fact that I didn’t sleep well last night, or if I’m still recovering from my mysterious illness on Sunday, or …

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Reasons Why This Week Sucked.

Item: Dress Color/Fabric: Earth tones, cotton Designer: Undetermined Where Purchased: The Salvation Army Years Owned 3 Let me tell you about my week. It has been horendous, and I can’t wait for it to be over. Here are some things that I experienced this week, in no particular order: a lost cell phone, surgical related …

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The Mystery of the Technicolor Shrinking Tunic

Item: Tee-shirt/Tunic Color/Fabric: Many, bright, Rayon/Spandex Designer: White Where Purchased: Marshall’s Years Owned: One Today I have chosen this near tee-shirt type garment because I honestly don’t know what to do with it. Yes, it is, comparatively, a rather recent acquisition, and has not been cluttering up the closet for too long, but it puzzles …

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