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Saturday, May 4, 2013

Free (to Wear Anything)

While getting ready to go out to dinner with my friends last night, I took a moment to glance in the mirror. Oh my, I thought, was a disjointed bit of fashion. Nothing was horribly bad, but it didn't particularly hang together, either.

I was wearing a sapphire v-neck t-shirt from UNIQLO, black Old Navy capris, nude wedges (Clarks), and a 70s maroon leather jacket from the Bins. Oh, and what to do for a bag? Maybe my red and gold batik number from Bali. Ugh. I traded in the capris for jeans, added a cream zip hoodie (for warmth), and called it good. It was still not quite great, but maybe it was OK for an evening at The Restaurant Formerly Known As Outback with the Boys.

Of course, TRFKAO is a bus and three subways away from me. While in the midst of a transfer, I was standing behind a woman who suddenly made me feel downright good about my fashion choices.

She was sporting tan open-toed sandal-like city-boot shoes that zipped up the back, except one zipper was unzipped with black tights with a large polka-dot pattern and a rather large run at her knee, an ill-fitting pleather pencil skirt, some sort of horrible red-ish top with awful pleats at the waist and shoulders, and top it all off, a feathered mullet dyed the hideous shade of black-hair-dyed-blond-so-it's-actually-red so common among Chinese women of a certain age.

This town can be incredibly liberating. I can wear whatever I want and it still won't be the worst thing around.


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Location:Beijing, China