Yesterday’s Girl Talk Thursday topic was about clothes. More specifically, it’s about clothes that make you feel awesome.
Let me tell you something, first of all. I am an ultra-nerdy graduate student. My daily outfit is exactly this: Chucks (green or white, depending on my mood), jeans, and a nerdy t-shirt (and, if it’s cold, a long-sleeve tee underneath). If it’s really cold outside, I’ll throw a hoodie on over top of it all. Sometimes I’ll wear a shirt without nerdy stuff on it if I have to be somewhere that I might need to not look quite so much like an obvious college kid.
However, I wear these things because they make me feel awesome. Specifically:
1. The nerdy shirt. I am a connoisseur of nerdy shirts. From Team Edward (James Olmos) to Thesaurus and beyond, I hoard nerdy shirts. Some people collect postage stamps, I collect shirts. Nothing delights me more than having a fantastic conversation because a fellow nerd saw my shirt and got excited.
2. Colorful knee socks. Almost my entire sock collection is knee socks. I think of all the socks I own that maybe two pairs are plain white socks, and perhaps a half-dozen of them are shorter than knee-length. There’s something about wearing brightly colored socks that makes me feel fantastic, even if I’m the only person that knows I have them on.
3. Dresses. Those that know me know that I wear dresses infrequently and almost always in the summer, when it’s brought on by the feeling of “sweet candy Jesus, it’s hot outside,” and not so much a real desire to wear dresses. However, when I have an excuse to wear a pretty dress? I feel amazing. I think a lot of that comes from the wow-factor reactions I get (since I never wear dresses, my friends always get excited when I do), but some of it comes from the part of me that still kind of wants to be an animated princess (you know the ones — the feisty, book-reading Belle type).
4. Boots. There’s nothing quite like pulling on a pair of motorcycle boots and stomping around in them like you’re the next incarnation of Sarah Connor.
5. Workout clothes. I think this comes from the badass feeling I get after running for half an hour and sweating my guts out more than the clothes themselves, but I’ve come to associate the two and now just getting into the sports bra is enough to make me feel like Kara Thrace, so I thought I’d include it.
