The Reasonably Prudent Law Student

You nerds are always asking me to show more outfits that I wear, as opposed to random ones I come up with or knock off. Frankly, I’m starting to get a stalker-vibe off of all of you, except for you in the second row. You seem cool.

So the day after my ConLaw final, I went to visit a friend whose father had just recovered from a heart attack. She’s staying with her folks for at least the next month and just commuting to work from there. Papa Hoomster recently had a heart attack (he was actually having one at home when he realized something might be up, so he drove himself to the hospital and walked all the way across it to the emergency wing and was like, yo, something’s up, and the doctors were all FACEPALM and then me and Mama Hoomster found out and we were all HEADDESK) and Grandpa Hoomster (Papa Hoomster’s papa) died after having two separate ones and then three or four successive, so I definitely wanted to stop by and see her.

I brought her a plant. And ingredients to make this barley porridge that Mama Hoomster and G-ma Hoomster (Mama Hoomster’s mama) that is really, really good for the heart and the whole body, really. They cook pearled barley all day with water in my crockpot, Sal (yes, I named my crockpot; we make chili together and do jigsaw puzzles), and then they take it out and put it in containers and refrigerate it. Then in the mornings they spoon 2-4 big tablespoons of it into a bowl, add a splash of milk, microwave for like a minute, and add a drizzle of honey and eat it. Barley porridge. Cleans out your arteries and fixes your HDL/LDL levels like you wouldn’t believe, and it’s also very good for the liver and kidneys.

It was a sad occasion (but also a happy one, since her dad was just fine), but I didn’t want to wear somber colors. Jesus, it wasn’t a funeral or anything. So I wore a variation of this:

Twill Magic Pants ………. $17.99
TanJay Floral Top ………. $9.60
Wrap Cardigan ………. $19.80
Triple Strand Faux Pearl Flower Necklace ………. $22.95
2.5 Leather Pumps in Olive ………. $29

Amazingly enough, I have white pants.

Those of you that know me might know I’ve always been super-conscious of my legs. I don’t like them. I mean, I’m SUPER grateful that I actually have legs, but I’ve always been self-conscious. I just think they’re fat. I’ve been told that they’re not at all, so it’s all just in my head, most likely, but whatever. Everyone has some random body image dysmorphic problem that they just can’t shake. This is mine.

But I’ve lost several pounds in the last week or so, mainly because I walk about 1.5 miles a day in the cold and I haven’t eaten dinner in the past two weeks at all (I just forget to eat during finals; it’s been this way since high school: I honestly just forget), so, if you don’t mind my saying, I look good. Or I look emaciated. The ‘I look good’ part could just be my dysmorphia talking.

So I actually wore these white pants I found in my closet. And I didn’t think I looked bad, so whatever. When I gain back the weight once I start eating like a person again, back into the closet they’ll go.

But I wore white pants (screw the whole ‘no white after Labor Day’ thing – that was just said to help people remember to stay warm because white reflects light and black soaks it in and keeps you warm; it’s like telling people not to wear a goose down parka in the summer) with this red and cream and blue and green top I have.

It’s a bit different from the one I picked out up there. It’s normally got a red ribbon that ties just under the bust, but I got rid of that and just wore it as it was, then threw on a pale grey wrap cardigan. This cardigan from Forever21 was the closest thing I could find to mine. Mine was pale grey and wrapped at the side with a bow, and was pale enough to look pretty similar to the white, but still clearly grey.

I picked these olive colored pumps that bring out the greens in the shirt. Mine were Mary Janes, but it’s unbelievably hard to find green Mary Janes. Ugh. Fail.

Since the top that I wore was a V-neck, I added this necklace that I bought a while back from NY&Co. V-necks create a pocket of space that’s nicely filled by a necklace, and I liked that the white and silver in this necklace matched the white in my top and the grey in my sweater. You don’t really need the necklace here, since the shirt has a notch/scoopneck, but I added it just in case you liked it.

I’ve been trying to be a little weirder in my fashion choices. I always try to look put together, and I play around with solids and prints, but I never quite branch out beyond that. Damn my wallflower ways.

But when I wore this and let my hair down in my normal kind of boho-hourglass waves, I don’t know, I felt like I was maybe doing something different. :-P

Also, honestly, I recommend getting the necklace. It’s purdy.