Weekday update #10: contrast

Well, it's jean Friday and my mourning period is carrying over. Honestly, I think it would be hard to tell when I'm NOT in mourning as I tend to wear black a lot! It's chic, what else can I say. The funniest thing happened this morning in our Office Services Dept. One of the guys from our dept. asked me, "hey who are you supposed to be today?" I looked at him puzzled, but soon realized that he reads our blog! That was a surprise let me tell you. My reply was simple, "I am myself. I did not have time to pretend this morning." He smiled and said to me, "naw, you're some sort of a rockin' roller, I think..." Considering I was still thinking of Mr. Asheton when I got dressed this morning, perhaps I did have time to pretend. Touché.

(Coat - Nanny; shirt - TopShop; jeans - thrift store; boots - Salvatore Ferragamo)

It's jeans day at work, but I am hardly ever comfortable in jeans. Call me weird, but I feel terribly constricted in the hard fabrics of a pair of jeans. This is not to say that I don't wear them, I do, when I run out of tights in the winter and am too cold to go bare legged on a plane. I know this because that's exactly what I plan to do today on my trip to Palo Alto. As much as I like to travel for fun, work trips are hard to get excited about. Especially when one must sacrifice most of Sunday to it in order to make a Monday morning meeting. So this past Friday, I made a date with a friend to have a nice dinner in hope of jump starting my shortened weekend. I figured that this dress was workable enough to go from the office to dinner without looking too inappropriate at either.