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In the summer I wear dresses almost exclusively. I just can't seem to make them work in the winter.

That was such a surprise when I started adjusting my wardrobe. I had always assumed dresses/skirts were time consuming, I guess because I also thought people wearing them were dressed up. It take me under 5 minutes to dress, though I don't wear make up and I just brush my hair.

My boyfriend always used to be like, "We are going to this not-so-fancy place, you know you could wear jeans if you want." But I always feel dumb and dorky in jeans. Plus, dresses are so much easier than pants and usually more comfortable too. Maybe I just have really uncomfortable pants.

When I gained weight, I couldn't wear my trousers anymore, but I could still wear my skirts (well, most of them, because they had elastic waists). So I pretty much never wear trousers to work. I only wear jeans on casual Fridays (once a month). But I still wear jeans on the weekend. I feel uncomfortable in dress trousers now. Even if they fit (which is rare because I have a really hard time finding trousers that fit), I always feel like I'm rocking a camel toe.

Yes! I feel like the camel toe thing happens to me too. Besides the cut (the inseam never seems right for me) dress pants always seem to be made out of the type of material that shows everything. I don't want to wear thongs. I want to wear my granny pantaloons and not have everyone see exactly where they are because of my clingy dress pants.

I confess that I would live in jeans if I could. I hate all pants that aren't jeans from a comfort standpoint, and I've never really figured out how to make skirts or dresses work for me in a not-dressed-up kind of way.

I confess that I don't think I've ever wanted a garment quite as much as I want one of these.

Haha, seriously, no thongs for me either! I have been having a serious problem finding skirts these days, unfortunately. I have plenty of dresses, but most of them are summery. And I got a couple pairs of boots and I just want to wear skirts + tights + boots every day. But no dice, since no skirts exist that I like. Also, what do you wear with skirts? I want to just wear my plain old vneck tshirts with them, since that's what I wear with jeans, but I feel like that's no good either.

Maybe my confession is that I am mostly fashion inept?

I usually do t-shirts and cardigans with skirts, occasionally a pullover sweater.

I like this look, but I feel like maybe the boots I got are a teensy bit too dressy for tshirts. I guess I just need to go find some skirts and then also find some tops.

Oh, but first I need to find some money.

Dudes, how do you handle tucked in shirts? I look like the hugest dork with a tucked in shirt, even dress shirts. Other people look so neat and professional and I look ridiculous.


I'm so in for an all weather onesie!

I never tuck anything in except my uniform shirt, and I look goofy in that anyways so I just roll with it

no tucking ever. ever.

Yeah I think it's just a body shape thing. Some people look awesome with a tucked-in shirt (*bats eyes*), and look really bad with an un-tucked shirt! (It seems weird to me actually, I can't quite figure it out, but yeah, untucked looks kinda bad on me!)

my partner has a "stocky" build (ie shortish and wide chested, and let's face it, a little chunky around the middle as he gets closer to 40) and he looks silly with a tucked in shirt. it's a shame, since i like dress shirts on guys.

It depends what you're tucking, too. Something tucked into a high-waisted skirt looks awesome on me because I have an hourglass figure. Something tucked into a normal or low rise waist looks frumpy and awful.

oh man, not nachos, but my house is deep in this... we started drinking booze in our coffee and having chocolate cake in a mug around christmas for fun holiday treat times, and now... it's like a few times a week. not good!

oh yeah, that too. i have no waist (and no boobs), hence most tucked in things make me look like a telephone pole instead of my normally willowly and awesome self.

That's funny. I've got a waist and lots of boobs but I still look like crepe with stuff tucked in because I'm so short waisted that it looks like I have no abdomen between boobs and hips if I do. I think not-tucking in is more forgiving on a lot of different body types than tucking in is.

I wear short cotton dresses over old second-hand jeans. All. The. Time. If my husband ever leaves me, it will be over this wardrobe choice.

Yeah, this, except I lack hips/a butt, so tucked in things with low waistlines is really unflattering. High-waisted, a-line skirt? Tucking in looks pretty good. Pants or pretty much anything with a waistline below my navel? Hell no.

i'll take you in if that happens, because that's been my uniform for years. i finally bought some leggings this winter, so i'm getting it together a little, but dresses over jeans just feels so right.

I'm so glad to know I'm not the only one who wears dresses over jeans. Whew.

Another one here.

I have a confession. My mom went out of town last night and I slept in her bed. With both dogs. Those dogs aren't even allowed in her room, if she knew they slept in her bed she would shiitake bricks.

I thought about posting that as a reason I don't ever want to have kids.