The Great American Apparel Diet

no buying for one year

As I mentioned last time, I’m getting ready to go to a cow show. My sister and I are leaving in a week and a half, and I’ve started pulling together the various items I’m going to bring along. It’s been a while since I’ve traveled, and I want to give myself time to be silly and repack several times.

One of the events as this show is a banquet. It’s as casual or formal as people choose, and we’ve decided that it would be endlessly entertaining to go as formal as possible!  Obviously, with the diet, there is no going and purchasing an adequate dress (and considering that I’m on a regular, food related diet as well, I don’t want to purchase a dress that I’ll only wear once before getting too skinny!). As a result, I was going through my closet, cleaning out pieces I truly don’t like, and looking for something appropriate.

I ran across a tub of clothing, mostly in a smaller size, but with one dress in my current size that I’ve only worn once. It’s a darling retro-style green dress that I wore to a family wedding over two years ago. It was a very emotionally painful experience for me, and the dress was put away, never to be seen again.

As I sat here, looking at this green dress, I thought about what this wedding had meant to my life. How it had prompted me to change the way I looked at relationships, family, and friends. And I thought about how silly it was to let this one negative (albeit formative) event ruin a dress I otherwise loved.

And so, as I step onto my airplane in a 10 days, it will be with a retro-style green dress in my bag. Because life is too short to dwell on the negative. It’s time to make new memories in that dress. It’s time to take back the green dress, and make it mine again.

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