I found this post in my drafts and I have no Idea why it wasn't posted yet. Well Here it is. The original Date on it is August 26, 2009 enjoy!
Yes I know it is horridly vain, but I feel the description fits. Last week My DH decided to throw out all of my old, ill-fitting, ill-becoming clothes, and then took me shopping for new ones on a trip to boise. But there were some rules:
Rule number 1 if I scrunched my nose even a little it went back on the rack, everything had to have a perfect 10 approval in order to win purchase.
Rule number 2 they had to fit NOW. yes I've been working out and yes I've been taking better care of myself, butI shouldn't have to wait in order to look and feel pretty.
Rule number 3 Absolutley under no cicumstances was I to own ANYTHING with an empire waist. it hid my natural waist and made me look bumpy.
Rule numbers 4 and 5 Embrace my shape and color pallete. I have a fairly true hour-glass figure (my hips are just the teensiest bit wider than my bust) but over the years of wieght gain I'd confinced myself that I was no longer "worthy" of calling myself by the perfect figure and kept dressing to hide my tummy rather than flatter my shape. Boy what an awakening it was when Marcus showed me my measurments and pointed out that yes my hourglass was still very much there and had never disappeared. :) The color pallete idea we took one step further by only keeping to the truest colors that I loved. Butternut yellows, sage greens, deep oranges/rusts, maroon like autum leaves, and chocolate browns. Denim was dark wash only (it's my favorite and the most flattering). and any t-shirt I bought in a color I had to also buy 1 in black so as to enhance my technitians wardrobe. (Marco begrudging left my lack wardrobe intact during the pruge owing to the fact that I'm a technitian and he wanted to make sure I still had two weeks worth of blacks before he got rid of the faded, worn and unflattering black t-shirts. LOL).
