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warmth & fashion

climate zones, idk, memory problems

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so here’s the problem, we’re coming down to the wire on this vacation we’re going on– we’re leaving for Cartagena, Colombia early next week– and I’m trying to mentally pack my suitcase, and– I mean I’ve had some things set aside for over a month now, i’ve been preparing for a while– but my real problem is that

this is sort of hilarious and embarrassing

i cannot remember for the life of me what it is like to be somewhere that the outdoors is warmer than room temperature. like i keep planning out outfits and i’m like “camisole and leggings for warmth, then– wait” “I know I’ll need to dress warmer for travel than the destination but if I wear my leather jacket then I’ll have it for the evenings– wait” and I know, intellectually I know, I live in a place where for part of the year, it is warmer than the ideal room temperature outdoors. I know this! I can leave my house in July and not bring a coat for later! i can wear a dress without an undershirt and leggings! these are things I do!

but I can’t remember how, and it’s really hilarious to me that my memory is so shit I can’t even remember what I wear when it’s July here.

I know enough that I made a bunch of linen and cotton dresses to bring, but I keep mentally accessorizing them with scarves and legwarmers and layered shirts and shit. NO.

Anyway, it’s kind of a hilarious problem to have but it is also a problem, I genuinely do not know what clothing I’m going to bring. i’m going to wind up filling my suitcase with leggings and socks I won’t want to wear once I’m there. Like, genuinely, I cannot conceptualize of a place where it is 85F.

Meanwhile, I also dug out my giant sun hat– I have to figure out a way to bring it, it’s too great not to have– and it’s sadly undecorated and I have become quietly obsessed with the notion of making fabric flowers to decorate it, in the like, thirty seconds I have left during which I need to be finishing the linen Rockwell dress. Last night I did manage to finish weaving the second waistband for it (I mentioned that i was inkle looming that, right? and that to accommodate my majestic girth I was going to have to make two waistbands and join them in the center front? anyway i finished the second one last night), and I also managed to finish hemming the maroon linen Honeybourne dress so I’m wearing that today and realizing that my hack of adding width to the bodice to avoid a zipper accidentally added width/depth to the neckline so it is wider and lower cut than I like, oh well that’s fine for summer right??? i don’t know!! because i don’t remember summer!! but anyway. i have it done.

The Rockwell, I put in the bust gathers, so now I just have to sew those down to a length of twill tape on the inside, and then I’m figuring out how to attach the belt on the outside so it’s removable for washing– I might put a buttonhole where I join the two sides of the waistband, and then attach a button to the dress?? Enticing concept. I could then switch out waistbands for a whole different look to the dress!

The other thing that’s been exciting is like, for once in my life accessorizing– that black and white slip dress matches a pair of great earrings I own, and the rainbow waistband for the Rockwell matches a pair of rainbow tassel earrings I own, and I just like, sometimes get excited about the concept of fashion, we’ll see how I do with this.

One time I camped with a girl who did Lolita fashion cons, and we weren’t doing that but she had all these beautifully-accessorized outfits and I was like “how??” and she was like “gallon ziploc full of accessories, packed separately with each outfit, never fail” and i have never achieved that but i’m gonna try. For the lakehouse weekend this winter I did pack each outfit rolled around its layers/accessories (including the compatible bra with each neckline) and that worked a treat, so. Might try it for this. (Your picture was not posted)