JACKET OPTIONAL

6 June 2021

And once again a bighearted welcome you precious beast,

can you tell momma is in a good mood already from the welcome? What. Kind. Of. Insane. Weather. This. Week. There we finally had the few summery days I’ve been waiting for (and whining over) the last months. The world seems to slowly start turning again. It’s warm, people are sitting in the park, restrictions are lifted, vaccines are given out, drinks are drunk and food is snacked – life is beautiful. To celebrate this easiness of life I decided to go for a very easy summer look this week.

What you are seeing is probably the basic of the basics. A good, old dress. There are actually a few things I love about dresses.

Put them on. You're dressed. No extra clothing pieces needed. Such a relief in the morning.
You don’t have the toilet struggle that you have with jumpsuits.
Dresses make you most of the time dressed without putting effort in.

Now, the last bullet point is a little tricky, because indeed, you have to add the little extra ding and the other dong to make some dresses shine, but generally, they are fairly effortless – compared to most blouses at least. And with the cursive dressed I mean dressed in such a proper way that you could attend a meeting in the morning, just as well as a coffee date with your bestie in the noon and next stop after you can hit your current tinder date up. Ah, so versatile.

Sure sure, this is all a bit broad-brush. You have to take care where the hemline of your dress sits, of its details, the patterns, etc. – but if you have a plain dress, without a lot of frills, not so short your poochie is greeting your neighbour when bowing down, then you can pretty much make most of it.

And that sums pretty much up, what I did here. That we are still in the earthy colour game this year, you might remember. I do have the impression that things are starting to get colourful again, but luckily nudes are never going out of style anyway. Nooot talking about them pretty pictures of naked people here sweetheart, clean your mind!

I decided on this basic, ribbed, camel midi-dress. I like that it has the slit on the side – besides making it much more comfortable to walk in, it’s the tiny little detail that makes this dress less boring and gives it a hint of cheekiness. Plus, you might see that I didn’t wear a bra underneath. Sometimes you just gotta let them boobies breathe. Plus plus – I also neither shaved my legs nor my arms for this and I can strongly recommend to not give a single damn fuck about it. Once, because reaching this point in my life was very liberating to me, I tell you. I want you all to feel this kind of alignment with your body. Second, because, jeez, take a look at how stunning and cool you still can look with an unshaved body? We are in desperate need for good mood, world peace, the end of a pandemic, and sometimes a new pair of shoes, but I don’t see the need for a razor on that list anywhere.

For clarification – I’m not that ultra feminist (sadly, I support them ‘tho. You go girl!) who never shaves and doesn’t use beauty products and make-up because they are made for mimicking a pretty object to the society. I think you might be able to tell that I like to dress up. The whole package. That means every now and then I’m shaving, too, every now and then I’m putting makeup on and paint my nails, blah blah blah. And I wouldn’t even sign that I’m just doing this completely for myself. Sure, definitely to a large bit of 95% for myself – but I can’t and won't deny that to a certain point we are all taking a look at ourselves to fit into the standards of the society we were raised in. Mainly, because we can’t get out of it. It’s somewhat like saying “thank you” – you grew up with it. You grew into it. That doesn’t mean you can’t change and overthink society. I sure as hell will empower everyone always to scrutinize it. BUT you can’t break out of society – at least as long as you don’t plan on moving to a lonely island with no internet connection. And you can’t erase society out of your memory. And as long as society surrounds you, you will, sometimes minor, sometimes major, try to fit in. I mean this process already starts by taking showers so that you don’t bother them poor other people in the tram with your smell. Anyway. I’m drifting apart again.

What I mean to say is – I do all of this beauty-related stuff guts gusto. And I think that is quite a good way, to do most things, or to go along with things. So why am I monologing about this again? Because I want to tell you that nobody cares what you are doing with your body hair. At least I don’t. And you’ll feel so good when you aren’t any longer so, neither.

Now back to fashion! As the dress itself is so simple I decided to go a bit mad with necklaces. I’m stressing the “bit” because I actually wanted to go even more mad with necklaces, but I couldn’t find any ones fitting. If you are wearing such plain outfits, then go a bit mad with the jewelry. Pro-Tip: concentrate it on place, or it might look tacky/too much. I.e. like I did with the three necklaces here. Or take two large bracelets. Statement earrings. But just take that one bodyparty (neck, arms, ears), and then slow down on the other.

Besides the necklaces, I’m wearing small hoops, because without a hoop I feel naked, and also my 90’s dad-sunnies. I decided for those, simply because this 90’s vibe still is the state of the (fashion-)art at the moment. On my lips, we see a bright orange lipstick that goes along with the colour of my toenails. I like orange combined with brown shades because it adds that little “POP” but isn’t too far away from the colour-family.

On the feet we are seeing some black ruched sandals. I liked the ruched detail – it makes this plain shoe a bit funny, a bit playful. Now and the last piece is the jacket. But as I said in the title, that’s definitely optional, because temperature is rising and I promise I sweated dearly when taking the pics with the jacket. So rather leave it hanging. But if you sure don’t want to – I paired the outfit with the black bomber jacket because it goes along well with the black of the sunglasses and the shoes. Also, the material of the jacket makes it look elaborate, whereas the cut makes it look casual. Ah, how I love such pieces!

Now go and enjoy the sun! (If its sunny. It might be rainy right now. Weather is a bitch in Germany, I know.)

XX Yoko!