Wardrobe Wednesday - Performance Anxiety

I'd like to think of myself as a fairly confident sort of person and when Nin and I talked about me taking on the Wardrobe Wednesday hosting duties I was all-of-a-flutter with excitement. Darling Sophie helped me sort out the linkies and get a button and all I needed to do was invite y'all over and put together a post.

Suddenly I was all like a host with a party planned. 'What if no-one comes?' or 'What if I say the wrong thing? or 'What if they think I'm totally uncool?' - I know I am SO mature!! Anyway you have come, and welcome to you and you are absolutely worth doing this for (I type in faith) please feel very welcome. I'd love you to feel like you can post whatever you're wearing and link in with confidence because we're all different but we're all worth celebrating.

I thought I'd wear my dress from the button today - generally I am an 'overdressed' kind of person. I'd love to channel effortless, rock chic but as it's not going to happen I am going to do what I love. I wore it on Sunday when I happened to be in charge of the under 5s at church (I know an excellent outfit for such an activity!) I managed to put my heel through the tulle in the back and rip a hole - I'm that kind of girl!

I made this dress last year to match my Christmas tablecloth and as Spring has sprung I thought it was a good day to pull it out.
It's the first outing for the white tights (from Farmers) and my dorothy shoes are one of my all-time favs (although not practical for biking the boys to school) bought from No.1 shoes about 4 years ago.
The necklace was 50c from an op-shop
The bracelet was one of my grandmothers - it is really heavy to wear and I love it

And just to keep it very real for our first outing together this is me sans-make-up except for a little bit of mascara.

 Here's the general guff:

So what is Wardrobe Wednesday?

• It's a chance to take some time once a week to peel off the polar fleece trackies (I have a pair too!!) and put on something that gives you a chance to have a 'play' in your wardrobe, to make yourself feel pretty/ stylish/ like a woman or at least not slummy!
•  It's a time to celebrate and hopefully to embrace your body however you find it - post baby, young or old, your body is lovely and functional and precious and I want this place to be a place for you to see other women (ordinary, beautiful women) who don't live in designer homes on designer budgets with designer bodies.
• One of the things I love about looking at the way women dress is that we all like different looks and we all bring our own aesthetic to how we dress.

How to play?

1. Link in your specific blog post not just your general blog

2. Link to a post about clothes - that's what we're here for

3. Please add a link back here so other people can come over and see people's clothing posts too - the old fashioned way or grab a button

4. Be encouraging and visit people - leave a comment now and again too everyone loves to get encouragement

If you want to know more about me or about WW (that's wardrobe wednesday not weight watchers or a world war!) click on the tabs up the top.

Here's the button copy and paste away

<center> <a href=" http://createhopeinspire.blogspot.co.nz/search/label/Wardrobe%20Wednesday"><img border="0" src="http://i1145.photobucket.com/albums/o516/CreateHopeInspire/WWbutton.jpg" width="160" height="160"/></a></center> Let's play!