outfit 61--coral and navy

my co-worker drives the green camaro in the background....it is a what i call a "cute-butt" car.  it just has a GREAT shape.  one of our other co-workers, who pretends to know it all, called it a mustang--huh!  mustang's don't have near the cute butts! 

this outfit was about grandma linda's necklace, which is like plastic cups linked together. and the dankso shoes.  lane bryant pants and the thrifted sweater just matched:) 

the inspiration

Well, I always want something new to wear.  Luckily, it doesn't actually have to be new, it just has to be new to me.  So, i am constantly going to thrift stores like D.I.--which if you don't live in Utah, is like the mother of all thrift stores, true awesomeness.  However, Savers has better deals on clothes and I need to branch out every once in a while so I will go other places.  I always say, I like when "fat girls go skinny "and give their stuff away because it is score time for me!

The other thing is this.  Trav and I have been desperately trying to get out of debt.  it seems like it takes forever.  i am so done with having  much of my income going to debt that i am ready to change one of my habits by changing my consumption of new retail clothes--for at least awhile:) 

In addition, it seems no matter what i try i will never lose weight so i might as well accept this size as what i am going to be and deal....

After repurposing a pair of pants into a skirt and a sweater into a vest and getting good feedback from my jr. high students, which will tell you if you suck:) AND finding this totally inspirational website, I am  hooked. I want to try this new stuff to me for as cheap as possible. 

Here are my obvious limitations:  I am a fat girl: I naturally have to shop the largest sizes in the thrift stores anyway so not everything is going to be super large on me.  I am short so not all styles are going to look good on my, especiall my short fat neck which collars already don't work well.  I am modest so short dresses and sleeveless are not an option, either. 

I think I would like to impose the following limitations on myself for an added challenge:  For the rest of the school year, I will not buy anything clothing-wise at a retail store. I may buy 2 pair of boots and socks and underwear, if needed--but no other outwear.  I also may buy thread or other notions to mend and blend....but even my fabric will be bought at thrift stores.  The hardest part is the budget.  Easy peasy would be $10 a week for 2 or 3 new items.  Harder would be $7 for 2 items.  Hardest would be $5 for two new items a week.  (I don't need or want something new every day!)