{"id":1217,"date":"2010-01-23T13:40:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T12:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2010-01-23T14:45:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T13:45:50","slug":"girlyness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/archives\/2010\/01\/23\/girlyness\/","title":{"rendered":"Girlyness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve developped an obsession with <a href=\"http:\/\/sockdreams.com\" target=\"new\">pretty socks and tights<\/a>. Well, I&#8217;ve had that for years &#8211; one of my fondest clothing-related memories involves a pair of grey tights with a braided pattern &#8211; but only recently have I become comfortable with drawing attention to myself by dressing exactly how I want to (possibly a reaction to both a growing self-esteem and the boring office clothes I have to wear at work). And now I have fully embraced the fact that feeling good in my clothes also helps me to feel good in my skin, in myself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shirasade\/4297657686\/\" title=\"After Patrick Wolf by evamaria_n, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4070\/4297657686_133e28516e_m.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" alt=\"A photo of at a tram stop in Zurich, holding a Starbucks cup and grinning like a loon. I'm wearing a black petticoat and a t-shirt that says 'party like a popsong from the 80s'.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how universal this is among women (I am reasonably sure that most men don&#8217;t &#8220;get&#8221; it), but I love the fact that something as simple as putting on a skirt and a cute pair of socks will make me feel good all day long as I look down at myself or see my reflection in a window somewhere &#8211; or in people&#8217;s smiling faces.<\/p>\n<p>Edit: And because I was talking socks and actually wearing leggings in the photo &#8211; here&#8217;s today&#8217;s &#8220;happy outfit&#8221;:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shirasade\/4296999367\/\" title=\"Girly yay by evamaria_n, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2428\/4296999367_cc274b8cc6_t.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" alt=\"Mauve over-knee socks with black stripes, held up by sock garters with big black buttons. Also visible are grey tights and the edge of a black skirt.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve developped an obsession with pretty socks and tights. Well, I&#8217;ve had that for years &#8211; one of my fondest clothing-related memories involves a pair of grey tights with a braided pattern &#8211; but only recently have I become comfortable with drawing attention to myself by dressing exactly how I want to (possibly a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,32,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-observations","category-photos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1222,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions\/1222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}