Playing Dress Up

In a lot of ways this outfit is a good example of what happens when a girl gets to play around in her moms closet. My mom has taken great care of her clothing over the years. For me that means I get to take advantage of all the things she has saved. There are a lot of jackets, belts, plenty of jewelry, shoes, and other miscellaneous things that have made it through the years. It's sort of like playing dress up crossed with a treasure hunt getting to go through her closet and the boxes that have been put away and stored in different areas of the house. 

When I was younger I had a trunk of dress up clothes in the equivalent of our playroom. It was mostly full of old dance costumes of mine and my neighbors (I used to take tap and jazz classes), but some of my moms clothes were mixed in there too. My neighbor would come over and we would get dressed head to toe in the most ridiculous things and then make up these little shows. 

  

  

The most successful one took place around and in her pool and had one of her older sisters playing a wicked witch (special guest appearance). We were mermaids, obviously, but we didn't have those costumes put together yet. I remember in the opening scene I was wearing my moms silk camisole and short set and I was lying on a rocking sofa. It was very dramatic. There was even a night swimming scene.

Our rehearsals ended very abruptly one day when I stepped on a bee and all my acting dreams were dashed. I'm sure we got in a fight because the offending bee was at her house and I probably ran home crying. It was my first bee sting after all. We never finished the play we were working on and never performed it for our families. It's a shame because I'm pretty sure we would have been famous had we been able to finish it. 

So, yes. In a lot of ways this outfit is like playing dress up with your childhood friend and putting on lavish plays. Except minus the childhood friend, long satin gloves, jellies, and dramatic bee sting induced tantrum. I even wore two belts with this outfit, which is something I feel a younger 80's me might have tried. The young 80's me was definitely pulling off multiple pairs of neon slouchy socks, so why not through in the double belt as well. 

Sweater Dress from my moms closet, Anthropologie Booties
Vintage Belts from my moms closet, Vintage Leather Bomber Jacket from my moms closet, 
Custom Necklace from Clyde's Rebirth

Anyone else play dress up and put on plays when they were younger? Do you remember the best one?

Did you know that I have a few treasured freckles on my neck? Tis true. You can find them in the header on Clyde's Rebirth, and technically see another sneak peak from the lookbook Merl will have completed later this week!