Appropriate dressing?

 

Are there some dressing rules for any occasion? Apart from written dress code. I guess no, (or may be Google will tell you). For some reason we take weather (no? For Britain it’s kind of really hard to predict) or what other people are used to wear for similar occasions into consideration. Could someone, possibly, appear in a gown on kid’s playground (taking not a fashion shoot) or wearing ripped jeans and tee for some kind of ball event? – I think most of us would say “No”. In a word, that would be called impropriate dressing.

At once, I remembered Bridget Jones, being dressed up in a Bunny Costume, visiting prudish hypocritical Easter Party. I bet, sometimes we catch ourselves in such situations, may be not as in the movie (actually, Bridget behaved herself pretty cool), but mentally for sure. Thinking whether do we look “normally”, catching a couple of prejudged glances thrown on you.

I feel sometimes confused, thinking of what leg revelation is “allowed” and not considered to be provocative during a city walk. Remember Brigitte Bardot and her extremely short white shorts (that looked much more like a knickers than shorts). It does look beautiful, playful but at the same time not vulgar. Think it deals a lot with your shape though.

Another bewilderment occurs, when you’ve got some beautiful piece of clothing for some hypothetical occasion, and you’re still waiting … and here comes the question – Do you really need to wait? Answering this question, I decided to prove myself that every day is a great occasion for showing off your special garment peice. I decided to put together McQ Alexander Mcqueen knitted skirt and new Valentino Tango pumps for our usual Saturday family grocery shopping. To spend more time in my newly revealed combo, I asked my husband to go for a city center walk before doing our planned shopping. It would be nothing to say, that I was feeling great, confident, even after catching a few surprised glances thrown on my skirt while I was caring my 3-year-old daughter. And even after my Valentino pumps started being a bit tight I was still trying not to let this affect my gait and tried to carry on with a good posture. I wouldn’t like to tell about the grocery shopping, but when my lovely daughter told me that she needed a toilet I new it couldn’t be easy. And it wasn’t, as I ended up with my beautiful shoes and Wolford tights being pretty wet. (Hope you understand that it wasn’t me.)

After all, when I was supposed to feel really depressed and exhausted, I did feel joyful. It was like overcoming a childhood fear and the feeling of being a “fish out of water”. Yes, I did it! Impropriate dressing. Sometimes I even started to catch myself on a controversial dressing when we’re about to leave for some special occasion. There was another case, when I appeared wearing jeans and a Topshop cotton sweater for a night party. (The thing was that I thought we were invited just for a evening cup of tea. And realized, that I’ve got it wrong, when we arrived to a disco party.) After all I was considered to be the most confident girl at the party. Occasionally.

And for now, I can say, that there is no any special occasion or a dress code needed, when you are about to go out. All you need is your attitude and right amount of confidence.