Fact:<\/b> I am having a fashion-backwards day today. It’s like the me of twelve years ago possessed my body and dressed me in utterly dowdy and lumpish attire. I’m wearing an ankle-length grey flannel skirt with an elastic waist, and a dull blue long-sleeved work shirt with a gray knit sleeveless pullover on top, giving me that untucked, layered, shapeless appeal that my mother encouraged me to foster when I was 13. And I’m wearing it with tan sandals. It’s as though my entire body is wearing a fabric sandwich board that’s subliminally screaming, “I’ve had it! I can’t take being noticed by anyone! Please look away from me!”<\/p>\n
Fact:<\/b> I just did some serious retail therapy at the Textile Museum. I bought five quilt books, including that Japanese Crests book from Dover that isn’t really about quilting at all. Oh, and Fact:<\/b> I also did some ‘eat-my-emotions’ therapy, which combined nicely with my outfit by being a throwback to high school lunches. Yes, kids, it’s a chicken burger with fries, gravy and a coke! Grooosssss. To add insult to injury, they only had those newfangled ‘NEW Coke with Lime’ cans in stock, and after five sips and some serious facial scrunching, I can conclusively state that it tastes like Coke with a dash of Aqua Velva men’s aftershave thrown in. Grooossss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fact: I am having a fashion-backwards day today. It’s like the me of twelve years ago possessed my body and dressed me in utterly dowdy and lumpish attire. I’m wearing an ankle-length grey flannel skirt with an elastic waist, and a dull blue long-sleeved work shirt with a gray knit sleeveless pullover on top, giving […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}