As a woman in my forties, I am finding that my trunk now contains a lot more junk than it used to and no matter what I do that trunk doesn’t get emptied.  I mean I am exercising every day with that glass of red wine and nothing, no change.  All the ads these days talk about loving the body you’re in, which I get but it would be nice to love the body that is four layers in instead.  I dress differently now, I don’t wear form fitting shirts like I used to and think of it as a public service of sorts.  People spend good money for their lunch, they don’t need to lose it.

I also respect that everyone should be allowed to wear what they want, when they want, and not be judged.  But come on people, there are just some things that shouldn’t be worn unless you have the right body for it.  Love your body, yes, but I don’t need to see all that love.  Leave some things to the imagination will you.  I would love to strut what God gave me in a half shirt but I won’t because I know I just shouldn’t.   Then we are right back to people losing their lunch.  If the cup runneth over….

One of my new loves are yoga pants.  Sigh.  What a wonderful creation these stretchy, forgiving pants are.  They are slimming, comfortable, and mine even have a little zip pocket near the waistband which I like to think is for candy.  How thoughtful of the creators to think of us like that.  I wish we could wear these to work, dinner, black tie events, etc.  We can’t have everything in life, for those events there are always housecoats.  Yoga pants, however, should be worn properly and in my opinion should even coming with an instruction label.  Not too tight and not with a short shirt unless you are pretty sure you can pull it off.  How many times have you seen someone and thought, don’t they own a mirror?

Speaking of mirrors.  If I am ever to create a product it would be a mirror that lights up with a red “X” across it when it sees an outfit that is just, no.  If you are that entrepreneurial type, please feel free to steal my idea and run with it.  You will be doing us all a public service.