Tuesday, November 11, 2014

OOTD: How to Apparently Not Win Best Dressed



The best and worst part of being in a sorority is weekly chapter meetings. While there is nothing I love more than dressing up like a classy business woman and seeing all my friends, I could do without the girls asking stupid questions and wasting time that I could be using to watch Hart of Dixie on Netflix. My sorority gives out a weekly sash and tiara to the girl who is voted best dressed by our parliamentarian.  Every week, I show up to chapter, positive that it is my week to win. However, apparently, it is never my week to win. I follow all the dress codes, always wear my pin, and am always showered with compliments upon my arrival, but none of it is good enough for the tiara. This week I wore a J Crew button down with gem neckline and a J Crew, magenta pencil skirt with matching magenta, pointed heels, and even a Lilly Pulitzer bow in the Delta Zeta pattern just to suck up. But of course, I did not win. When your bow, lips, skirt, shoes, and purse match flawlessly, you should be awarded for your success. Instead, I am simply medicated for my OCD. Sometimes things are unfair. 


OOTD: Patterned Pants and Pocahontas Moccasins


You ever wake up in the morning and find the need to channel your inner Disney princess? No? Just me? Well then... 
Usually I tend to go for my favorite, Aurora, and rock some pink or Lilly Pulitzer - what I am generally expected to wear by everyone who has ever met me. Not today though. Today I decided it was time to channel my inner Pocahontas. Clearly, I felt like being the most boring of all the princesses because, lets face it, other than Colors of the Wind, that movie is entirely a snore. If I'm watching a Disney movie, I'm not trying to get a history lesson - I'm trying to swoon over an animated prince and daydream about a life that should rightfully be mine - the life of a princess. But alas, I am not; I am a college student with an "Archaeology and the Bible" quiz which is about 12 and a half steps down from glamorous. Thus emerges my internal need to portray a very unglamorous princess - Pocahontas. 
With my high top, fringed moccasins that my boyfriend so lovingly refers to as my Native American shoes; some flower patterned, polka dotted, loud and proud leggings that he, also lovingly, refers to as "interesting" in probably the least loving way possible; and an oversized off-white t-shirt, I braided my hair into some pigtails, popped on my Warby Parkers, and headed off to my quiz. I got so many compliments on the way there about how bold my outfit was and how I was owning the patterned pants that I showed up feeling hella confident to my quiz. Needless to say, I got a 100. Seriously, wear something fabulous on quiz days because you'll either 1. be so confident in yourself that you'll nail it, or 2. you'll fail entirely but still feel great about the fact that you're looking great. If you look great, there's always that glimmer of hope that a rich man will marry you and that's really all we're working towards, isn't it?