Which Clothes Will Define the Rest of Your Pandemic? It's Time to Get Extra Particular
Now that the vaccine is rolling out (albeit slowly), there is a light at the end of the tunnel and the sense of rebounding productivity and life is stirring ever so gently within. While it’s not likely ‘normalcy’ will return until summer 2021 earliest, that is still a closer goal than it’s ever been and to that end, we can get surgical in what we choose to wear to motivate for whatever the day holds…for the rest of this damned crisis.
By now, you have a pandemic uniform of some kind. Do you actually like it? Does it serve you? (These are questions of equal importance, BTW.) Whether intentional or not, you’re probably wearing a capsule wardrobe, and even those can be refined for desired or necessary changes over time (in my case, about 1000% increase in dessert intake of late, gulp).
The page turn to 2021 (sidebar: I have never wanted to write an uneven number so much as I have this year!) is the perfect time to drill down into your default, pandemic wardrobe and be even more honest with yourself about which pieces truly float your boat, blow up your skirt, get your motor running.
In case you don’t already know…any mood boost is going to help you survive this last, longest stretch of the pandemic and your clothes are an easy, already-around way to do it. Scalpel!
For some, it’s the workout gear. Keeping it on makes it that much more certain you’ll accomplish your movement goal for the day. WEAR THE ONES YOU LIKE THE BEST FOR WHATEVER REASON – COLOR, GOOD MEMORIES, EASY TO WASH! FORGET THE DUMPY OLD T SHIRTS FROM EXES AND STRETCHED OUT LEGGINGS THAT SAG THAT DEPRESS YOU.
For others, it’s an ironed button down or a blazer over a T shirt so you feel your business head ‘screwed on’. PUT ASIDE THE ONES THE MOTHER-IN-LAW YOU NEVER LIKED GAVE YOU AND ROCK THE ONES YOU FEEL POWERFUL IN!
For another, it’s special underwear that doesn’t pinch or ride up (and is not ten years old). LIKE IT OR NOT, UNDIES BREAK DOWN OVER TIME. REPLACE AS NECESSARY AND HAVE FUN WITH YOUR CHOICES!
And for others, it’s an easy-to-wear but just-that-much-more-special day dress. PRETEND YOU LIVE ENTIRELY SOMEWHERE OTHER THAN THE CONFINES OF YOUR SAME FOUR WALLS FOR JUST ONE MINUTE, FOR PETE’S SAKE! LOCATIONS AS FAR FLUNG AS YOU CAN DREAM!
Whatever gives you the emotional kick in the pants you need to get up and at the pandemic day – choose that. This time will come to an end. Choices and trends will change. (We will all probably go bananas with freedom! I can’t wait!) That is all to come.
Right now, dress today’s body for today’s more narrow needs in a way that keeps you going like the finely honed instrument of survival you have become. You are going to finish strong.
- Stephanie Gisondi-Little
