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Update: Wearing Skirts {Thoughts from Me}

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Two weeks ago today, I wrote a blog post called New Goal: Wearing Skirts.  This post challenged me to change my style of dress at home and in public.

Since writing that blog post, I have worn a dress or a skirt almost every day.  I can only think of two times that I didn’t wear one: a visit to a friends where shorts were more appropriate for the day and when I was mowing our grass.  On both those days I wore shorts.

I have really enjoyed this challenge. Writing about how much I loved wearing dresses as a little girl started me thinking about why I had changed this attitude in my self.  I realized that over time I adapted to social expectations that are not really me and I have challenged myself to rethink those ideals.  I also adapted to the likes of other’s instead of staying true to myself.

Over the last two weeks, I have worked to change those things about my life.  I have worn a dress almost daily, though no makeup and I haven’t done much with my hair past my normal wash, dry and pull it up.  I’m wearing flip flops with most of the dresses, simply because I haven’t had time to do much else. 

Still the change has affected my entire household, well except for my son!  Both my girls also want to wear dresses.  They often change throughout the day, as little girls are known to do and most of those changes include their lovely dresses or a skirt.  I am thankful that they enjoy this style of dress as much as I do!

Even Josh’s attitude is changing.  He cannot wait to get home just to see what dress I have on.  He is complimenting me more and enjoying the changes in me too.  I am thankful for this change in our life.

Last week, I mentioned to Josh that I wanted to get rid of most of my pants and shorts and replace them all with skirts and dresses.  He was all for it!  For my birthday, he provided me with a small shopping spree to buy new tops, skirts and dresses to make this wish of mine happen.  I was estatic to find 6 cute dresses, 9 tops and 2 lovely skirts.  I have spent this week matching new outfits and old pieces to create an adorable wardrobe to wear.  I will take some new pictures later to share with you all. (Camera battery is dead right now!)

For my next part of this challenge, I think I will challenge myself to do my hair and makeup everyday.  No sense looking cute in dresses without doing up the hair and face too!  I can only imagine what a change that will make in my days.  Something I will greatly look forward to! 

How about you? Have you ever thought about wearing more skirts or dresses to see what a change it makes in you?  Give it a try today!

New Goal: Wearing Skirts {Thoughts From Me}

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Reading this post by Amy at Raising Arrows for the She Wears Skirts series got me thinking about skirt wearing again.  I have attempted wearing skirts daily in the past but have always managed to fall back into the ease of throwing on whatever I find to wear.  Somehow this always seems to be pants or shorts, instead of skirts and dresses but I’m unsure as to why I don’t go for my skirts first.

Growing up, I always wanted to wear pretty dresses or skirts and my Mom’s high heels.  Some of my earliest dress up memories are of dressing this way.  Over the years, I somehow lost this idea of pretty dressing = femininity.  As I grew up, dressing like a “girl” became less important and dressing quickly became more important. 

As a Mom, I see my daughter torn over the ideals of the perfect woman.  I see her struggle to figure out whether she is beautiful.  I see her question if her teeth look nice, if her breath smells, if her clothes match, if her hair is nice.  Many of these questions come out of my own insecurity in beauty.  My daughter learns from watching me.

One thing I have learned from her is that I should give skirts a chance again.  She, like her Momma of yesterday, loves to dress up in pretty skirts and dresses.  She loves to have her nails painted pretty colors and her hair pinned up with sweet bows.  She enjoys wearing cute but comfy shoes and already she walks on her toes in prep for the high heels she will some day wear in her future.

My goal for this week is to go through my closet (read clean my closet here) and lay out several dress and skirt outfits I can wear each day.  I plan to rid myself of anything I dislike and have never really worn.  I want to match my shoes and accessories to these outfits as well, so that they will be complete and ready to go.

I know I won’t completely give up pants and shorts but I do want to make a conscious effort to dress better and dress in skirts more often.  My sweetie has more than requested this style of dress from me as well, as he enjoys seeing me dressed to my feminine best each day when he comes home.  This encourages me to dress this way even more.  Making him happy brings me joy.

So hopefully, I can manage to get my closet under control, get some clothing matches made and start wearing my skirts more often this week. At least that’s my goal for now!