The Curved Opinion

9 October 2013

OMCZ 16 - Your Choice

Welcome to OMCZ 16 - this time there is no theme, just our choice of what is outside of our personal comfort zone.

What I decided to wear was the dress that everyone has been talking about, the +Pink Clove UK tartan dress. Now this dress is out of my usual comfort zone as red check is something I have never thought would suit me and indeed when I saw the trends emerging for Autumn Winter, I swore I wouldn't buy any tartan at all.

Yet here I am today, wearing a tartan skater dress and loving it. How times change. I wore this dress to the the +Marisota blogger event last week and it was comfortable to wear all evening and I didn't need to do any adjusting half way through the night which you can find with some dresses.

The lighting isn't great in these pictures I am afraid, I was having a bit of an argument with the flash which seemed to insist on highlighting where I didn't want it to.

With the dress I am wearing an Alice in Wonderland quote necklace which I got from Etsy and wedge ankle boots which are from +Simply Be and I am totally in love with them.

7 October 2013

Standing Out

I was reading a post called The Looks, The Stares by the fabulous Leah of Just Me Leah recently.

It made me think of the extra layer of veneer that is necessary sometimes when out and about in the general public. It shouldn’t be necessary, you should be able to walk around in public without judgement but as you know, some people can be idiots.

What it did make me remember was an incident last week when I was at Euston Station that made me realise that something has changed. I am not as self conscious as I used to be. Not by a mile.

At the time the weather was fairly warm and so I was travelling in my striped floral Asos Curve dress. It is pretty and was just right for wanting to be comfortable whilst travelling. I have always travelled in black previously and have usually blended into the crowd. This dress stands out, but I didn’t even think about it.

So there I am stood at Euston Station, looking at the departures board for my train and I spy a woman openly staring at me. She stares, she looks away, she stares again. She looks a bit baffled. At that point I could not understand why she was staring at me in such a way.

Then a minute or so later the penny dropped. She was staring at the fat girl who was standing out. Not wearing black, not trying to blend in. Wearing stripes and bright florals. I wasn’t playing by the rules.

Instead of feeling self conscious and wanting to cover up, I smiled at her. Which made her even look even more confused. Then a wonderful thing happened. I started to laugh. I walked away and went to board my train.

Another layer of veneer fell off me that day and the world got a little bit brighter. Here is me in the oh so shocking dress by the way.

Have you experienced anything like that?

Magnificent 7th - Polka Dot!

Hello and welcome to today's Magnificent 7th Challenge - Polka Dots!

We will be posting on the 7th of each month, and the aim of the challenge is to create an outfit to fit the theme, using clothes from our wardrobes, and yes that does mean digging deep into the depths and finding those long lost clothes! Hopefully one of us won’t end up in Narnia, but you never know with a bloggers wardrobe!

I had a bit of a panic this month as I realised that I owned three different pieces of polka dots, and every one was either packed away for the Winter or in the wash! So I have in haste found some photographs that I have taken previously of me in polka dot!