this one is about me wearing grown-up clothes

since i was 14 i have donned jeans and sweatshirts almost exclusively.

what? it's not a crime...

of course i can dress up for occasions. i know what's appropriate. but oh how i daydream about wearing jeans and a sweatshirt. and, if i'm in a particularly bad state, oh how i daydream about sweats. pure and simple.

(once, i went to a dressy event and brought along sweatpants in the car so that i could put them on for the car ride home. i mean, sometimes you just cannot wait.)

this last sunday saw us at a client's 90th birthday party. the night before we went shopping and i found a pair of white linen-y wide-leg pants. i thought, these will look terrible. i thought, but i should try them on anyway. i thought, these are cute. so i tried them on and ben loved them. i did a lot of shoulder shrugging.

(DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO LOOK AT YOUR LEGS IN WIDE-LEG PANTS AFTER A LIFETIME OF SEEING THEM IN JEANS??! IT'S IMPOSSIBLE!!)

but i bought them. mostly because ben has great taste (hello, look who he married! jk). but really. he has great taste. and if he says they look good. then by golly.

so i wear them to this party in pv. (did i mention it was at the home of the director of the bold & the beautiful? oh i didn't? hm.) it was at the home of the director of the bold & the beautiful. the soap we watch exclusively at lunch here at work. 5 days a week. every week. without fail. uj has been watching this show since day 1. it was awesome.

SO.

i wear them to this party. the pants are a hit. by that i mean i got compliments from strangers. and slowly my love for the pants grew.

here's the deal.

i am 28. i get carded everywhere. i get funny looks even after being carded. i am asked if i am in high school. sometimes, when i'm lucky, i am asked if i am in college. these things happen without fail. and much to my exasperation.

but.

i think i actually looked as close to 28 as i ever will, thanks to those pants. and my sassy wedges. and my sassy top from target with the little teardrop hole thingy in the back. (i know!!) and really, poor ben, all these years. i mean, who wants people to think their wife is in high school?! although maybe high-schoolers should stop looking like 28 year olds...?

an.yw.ho.

i was like a real life big girl yesterday. it was a bit crazy.

(in other news, we got invited by said director to the set of b&b to watch them film) (silent screaming) (do you think i have too much pride to beg kkl to take a picture with me?? oh hell-to-the-no.)