{"id":130,"date":"2007-11-19T03:58:21","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T03:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christine.kimballlarsen.com\/old\/weblog\/a_changing_look.html"},"modified":"2010-03-04T18:01:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T18:01:56","slug":"a-changing-look-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christine.kimballlarsen.com\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"A Changing Look"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Years ago I received, as a gift, a silk scarf from Italy. And it has made a lovely addition to the top shelf of my closet, as I haven&#8217;t known what to do with it, being the fashion dummy that I am. It dutifully sat folded and unopened, in the original package, until today, when I decided that I would finally take the time to try and figure out how to wear it. And I must say that I was rather pleased with the results of my search. Take a look <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elizabetta.net\/phpfiles\/long_scarves.php\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to see several different ways to wear a long scarf. I&#8217;m inspired, and maybe I&#8217;ll wear it again someday! In fact, maybe I&#8217;ll learn to be a little more adventurous in my clothing choices. My [slightly younger and infinitely more fashionable] sisters are going shopping with me over the Thanksgiving holiday to help me update my wardrobe a bit, now that I&#8217;ve lost some weight and it has begun to appear I like wearing tents instead of shirts. It&#8217;s a little nerve-wracking for me, since I&#8217;m still wearing the same styles I wore in high school (which is to say no style at all really), but I&#8217;m confident that in their capable hands I will, at least once, wear something that looks a little less like I got dressed in the dark closet of a stranger&#8217;s house after making my clothing selection from a box under the stairs while blindfolded. And then they&#8217;ll go home and really, after that, all bets are off. I&#8217;m not exactly fond of change. (In fact, it took me an hour of changing my scarf-tying before I found a style I liked, and then another hour of wearing it around the house before I convinced myself I could actually wear it to church. Where I received more compliments than I have ever received in one day on my clothing (three, I think). Quite an accomplishment.) But change has found me (and my waistline) and so, therefore, I feel I need to do my best to embrace it and at least pretend I can deal well with it. After all, it has been almost 10 years since I graduated high school. Guess I can&#8217;t keep up that act any more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago I received, as a gift, a silk scarf from Italy. 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