Welcome to Day Six of Black Friday Blogging. I think the event has been a tremendous success so far! I have learned so much from everyone. So let’s keep on talking as we near the big day.
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Today finds me preparing to go home for Thanksgiving. I have a small worn-out roller-bag that I use to go on trips. I used to find it almost impossible to keep my luggage down to one bag in the past, I always over packed with the worry that I might need this or that item of clothing. But as I have grown older and as I have streamlined my own wardrobe I realize that today I will have no problem fitting in everything I could possibly need for Thanksgiving in Boulder (which isn’t much, a pair of jeans, dress pants and shirt for family dinner, several long sleeve tees, a sweatshirt, my Prada pumps, a pair of ballet flats, some workout clothing and my running shoes) in addition to about 8 books on Ancient Indian state craft, leadership, and Kautilya’s Arthashastra, some books on leadership in Machiavelli, Rousseau’s Social Contract and Emile. I am actually bringing more books than clothes.
Thus I come to day’s thought on consumption: Some days the most important thing on the table is the people you are with and the ideas that surround them. I would be the last person to say that image doesn’t matter, it does matter a great deal. But as we near the holidays, a time when many of us obsess over what to wear to parties and greeting rounds, remember that you wouldn’t be doing anything of that crap if somewhere deep down it didn’t touch your emotional core. And the things that touch your core don’t care about your hair or makeup, they don’t care if you wore the same thing last year, rather they care just about seeing you. And you know what? If those events don’t touch your emotional core you shouldn’t be bothering. Fashion isn’t about anyone else but you when it is done right (though it can certainly impress and touch others but I don’t believe that is its main goal) but when you don’t feel like caring about fashion then don’t. The holidays can be overwhelming and if you would prefer to face them in jeans and a sweatshirt than do it! I am going to the land of casual, if you swipe on tinted moisturizer and wear your good Tevas you are dressy! I have worn jeans to the Opera in Boulder (Nixon in China but I had to leave halfway through because of a hillside fire that evacuated all of North Boulder) and been just fine. I realize that this weekend it is more important that I see my family and write my last papers of college than have perfect outfits for everyone. Though personally I think that cozy jeans and my old Sorbonne sweatshirt (even French sweatshirts fit better than American!) are perfect outfits for leftovers and political science!
Please give a warm welcome to Style Tribes who is joining us for Black Friday Bloggers! I look forward to reading the posts!
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Ah, going home! For me going home is a sure-fire way to put the big-city pressures behind me. Where my family lives it gets pitch black at night because there’s no other houses around, it’s eerily quiet, and you have to go to the outhouse! There’s nothing better than family and good food and Scrabble by the woodstove… and no-one cares what I wear, not even a little bit. I’m sure I could go up there without packing a single thing, wearing the same thing every day and no one would even notice (of course, I tend to overpack even so)
Careful lifting all those heavy books! And have a happy American Thanksgiving!
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