The definition of clothing has become interesting. Do shoes count? What about jewellery? What about being on holiday and running out of underwear? Can I ever really have enough black t shirts? What if I really, really run out of socks? You have to have socks. Six weeks on, my socks are already getting odder and odder.
How about this mad urge to buy clothes for others? Does my husband need some white shirts, even just a little? How about that very cute t shirt at Cosmic Corner that says, profoundly, for sure:
'Be humble
for you are made of earth.
Be noble
for you are made of stars'
Someone I know would like that. I like that. It's not really a t shirt, it's more a mobile poster. I could probably buy it and not break the rules I made for myself.
Anyway, I recently bought a kangaroo onesie. It is a bright orange and white onesie with a hood with a face on it and ears, and a joey in a pouch. I have no idea why I bought this thing and I instantly regretted it. How on earth could I justify it. Well, here, on the following grounds:
1. I live in Linwood, where acceptable dress for shopping is a pair of pyjamas with hippos on them and a Sons of Anarchy hoodie. So don't judge me.
2. It is not really an item of clothing, more a costume.
3. It has a dear little face.
4. It is not really a costume even, because with the joey in the pouch it is more a toy,
5. They are my rules anyway.
6. It is a size small, which is always so encouraging.
7. It has a joey in its pouch.
8. The joey has a dear little face.
Would it break the rule, if you were to put it on and had a photograph taken?
ReplyDeleteOf course, you can make this excuse for yourself: when you formulated the 'no new clothes' rule (for whatever reason), you could not have anticipated you would subsequently encounter, prominently displayed in a shop window where anyone could see it, a ... garment, item of wear, ... a clothe, withal ... that featured (so to speak) a dear little face. In the light of this, perhaps it was too much to expect of oneself the strictest adherence to a rule of such stringency. ...
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