Outfit Post #9

Hat: Diana Exclusive
Dress: Stop Staring
Shoes: Jessica Simpson

This outfit is all about the hat!  It’s a vintage piece I picked up years ago at an antique store and I’m amazed that not a single feather has fallen out.  It did use to have a chin strap but that broke the first time I tried to wear it.  I just secure it with bobby pins now.  I don’t really like admitting to the brand of my shoes but even though I don’t like Jessica Simpson as a celebrity, she does have a decent line of shoes.  I got these on sale for $19 and they are one of my more comfortable pairs of heels.  Sometimes there are good products that I will turn my nose up at just because it’s associated with images I don’t like or I feel would misrepresent me if people knew I used it.  I am slowly growing though.  My biggest example is my perfume.  I used to exclusively wear Chanel no.5 because it has been around since the 1920’s and I liked the famous Marylin Monroe quote.  It smelled decent on me but it didn’t seem to last.  One of the times I was buying a bottle of Chanel I received a sample of Juicy Couture and it smelled fabulous on me.  It had great staying power and I couldn’t help but continuously sniff my wrist because it smelled so good.  I didn’t start wearing it till years later though because I couldn’t get over the fact that Juicy Couture just was not “me”.  I’ve converted now but I still miss the Chanel no.5 stigma whenever somebody asks me what type of perfume I wear.