Am I ever going to come up with a dress design I like enough to make?

I've given up on the kimono dress design. I've decided I may as well have the tie, and the tie necessitates gathers (which I don't want to explain right now), and so I figured I may as well gather the sleeves too. So much for variety. Too bad for Collin, who doesn't like gathers that much. It's okay, I mean the fabric will work well with gathers. It's not all stiff like the test fabric.

Maybe that dress will actually turn out pretty.

It's a dilemma though, having pretty clothing. One begins to think that one must set the prettier clothing aside for fancier, more special, or formal occasions. But then the question begs, how formal is formal enough? When you live a life like mine, well I've almost never been to a formal occasion. Every wedding I've participated in asked for a semi-formal, casual practically, dress code from the bridesmaids. That is to say, I wore clothing that I would wear (or did wear) to church.

Is church considered formal? Not in this culture . . . girls in my ward are still wearing their springy, knee-length, light cotton skirts . . . and need I mention that it snowed like a foot last night?

I'll take any occasion I can to dress up, but then I am tempted to disregard clothing codes altogether, and wear my fancier clothing whenever I please, alongside my regular, every-day clothing.

Which presents a secondary problem. If your fancy clothing becomes your everyday clothing, then you don't have anything for the fancy occasions.

There's just no way around it. But it's no good having all these pretty clothes taking up space in the closet, never getting worn. But let's face it, with my lifestyle, I don't have any reasons to dress up. I go to work all day and I sit around in my room all night. I almost never socialize. And the type of socializing I do, doesn't predicate a more formal dress code.


I want to go dancing.

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