I feel just a little like Alice

[eleneariel]

Leggings are, I am told, quite passé for this season - but do I care? Not hardly. And combined with a short jersey dress, they make up one of my favorite outfits. They're comfortable and warm, and I can crawl, sit on the floor, stand on a table, or climb on a ladder (sometimes I do all of the above in a day at the library) without worrying about flashing people. I think we'd all agree that's a good thing.

It's also become my standard winter travel wardrobe. For the PLA conference in Minneapolis last year, where I knew I'd be doing a lot of walking downtown in the frigid air, I took two short jersey dresses (one red, one black), two pairs of leggings (one black, one grey), two shrugs for over the dresses (one black, one white) a cheery red wool peacoat/scarf/hat, and a pair of black ballet flats. In various combinations, this made up most of my wardrobe for the week, and I remained comfortable, warm, and chic. AND it all fit in one carry on bag!

(That's also the trip where I got propositioned by a very dignified elderly gentleman who talked constantly about his wife, but that's another story.)

Incidentally, this is my it's-six-in-the-morning-i-haven't-had-coffee-and-you-expect-me-to-SMILE?! face. You'll be seeing it a lot.

Day 6

Comments

[main-hoon-emily.livejournal.com]

Love that outfit. Love. It.

I like this idea! If I didn't wear the same 4 or 5 outfits every week (my wardrobe is very small at the moment) I might copy it for myself! :-D

[main-hoon-emily.livejournal.com]

And I just realized you're comparing yourself to Alice Cullen, not Alice in Wonderland. I've been puzzling over that for a good hour now!

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

Teehee, I wondered who would get it. :) Not quite her color palette, but leggings + ballet flats = Alice to me.

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

I think leggings would look totally cute with that white skirt you wore before the movie! I <3 that skirt, btw. :)

[greyeyedpixie.livejournal.com]

Cute!

[wandering-flame.livejournal.com]

Looks kinda like Minnie Mouse.

http://www.smallworldmemories.com/images/ESU-DEMM006.jpg

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

She's a distant cousin (on my mother's side.)

[wandering-flame.livejournal.com]

I can see the family resemblance.

[kellchecker.livejournal.com]

Cute!

[seekinghim.livejournal.com]

so cute! I love polka dots. (and I admit it: I wear leggings ALL the time, even though I've heard they're out again. I don't care!)

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

Legging-wearing girls UNITE!

[victoriaeremita.livejournal.com]

I'm a huge fan of tights, so I like this. :) In December I bought pair of blue tights and everyone thought I was nuts... they will see!

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

Oh, fun! I'd like to try something like that. :)

[ransomedsea.livejournal.com]

Leggings are a perfectly acceptable way to look chic, stay warm, and have flexibility. Whatever anyone says against them is rubbish. :P

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

I'm officially starting a club for awesome leggings-wearing ladies.

[amea.livejournal.com]

Oh geez. Just when I have reconciled myself to leggings, off they go.

Ah well. I like to think of myself as fashionably outdated.

[amea.livejournal.com]

Aaaand I just now realized that I could very easily change that to "fashionably late". I will henceforth use this term to refer to my wardrobe.

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

I'll be fashionably late with you. :)

[franciscanorder.livejournal.com]

Alice of the Cullens, or of Wonderland fame?

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

I can't see Alice in Wonderland wearing leggings, can you?

[franciscanorder.livejournal.com]

I'm a boy. I didn't realize that "stalkings" and "leggings" were distinct until this very conversation.

But it was a dumb question anyway. The Cullen influence is plain to see.

I'm just over the halfway mark in Breaking Dawn. Finally, Meyers is giving my heart a stinkin' break. Sure, I know the real hairy stuff's still coming, but finally some payoff here. Immortality, happy times, beautiful baby, no Jacob/Bella angst to go ripping at me when I think of how that must punch Edward in the stomach.

Speaking of which, I totally knew Jake was going to imprint on the baby. I didn't know it would be a girl though...it was sort of implied that the imprinting thing neededn't be sexual in nature, so I didn't see a problem with it.

Also, it was obvious to me that, all the while that Bella had been ill, the baby wanted blood. They should have just asked me, she'd have been fine the whole time.

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

You learn something new every day!

Isn't having Bella/Jacob angst over with a beautiful thing? And aren't Jacob's chapter titles just about the best thing ever? ... wait, don't answer that.

So how do you like vamp!Bella?

[franciscanorder.livejournal.com]

I have to admit, they are great stuff, and Jacob really earns admiration, but I had a hard time with that. Jake may have had a legit claim to Bella's heart due to his services as an emotional repairman, but I'm on Team Alice, and thus, Team Edward by extension. Jake is (was) an interloper, siphoning off affection from bella that should have belonged to Edward in totality. And so yeah, I had to grugdingly accept that he was awesome in those chapters.

I love vamp Bella, but to tell you the truth, I feel it's more difficult to relate to her now. I have similarities to the character, and so it's less of a connection now.

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

I love vamp Bella, but to tell you the truth, I feel it's more difficult to relate to her now.

Oh good, it isn't just me. I thought it was fun to see how Bella reacted to vampire life (as cleolinda put it in her Twilight In 15 Minutes recap, "Bella Swan vampires better than you!") but she seemed like a different person in a way that's hard to define.

Edit: Er, sorry, that would be the Breaking Dawn recap. *slaps forehead*