Why change if it still works??

A little while back my mama had given me a little box of treasures she'd saved for me over the years. The 'treasures' were not what most would consider actual treasure but more treasures of my heart that channel treasured memories. One of those treasures lifted my sick-with-a-brutal-sinus-cold spirits this morning and I just had to share.

Do you ever get made fun of for your fashion style... or lack thereof? I sure do, but it never tempts me, even in the slightest, to change!

For the past two days we have had unusually high temperatures here at home; yesterday was  +8 and today it's +6... unheard of for us during winter and though we still have lots of snow it's a sudden and welcomed relief from the deep -30's we've been having. I opened the windows hoping to air out the house as well as hoping the fresh air would help me breathe a little easier and mentioned to Enz that it felt like Spring and that this year I was hoping to finally be able to wear my cowgirl boots again since it's been a couple of years not being able to walk in them with thanks to the dumb neuropathy...

"I was hoping you'd forgotten about them..." he answered me.

"What??! Why would you even say something like that?????"

"Because, Gillian... can't you just wear something normal sometimes instead of plaids and boots with sundresses?"

"I like my boots with sundresses... and my jean jacket, too!"

"I knowwwww....."


And then I started to giggle... and then I started to laugh... and then I started to choke and cough and laugh and choke and cough some more. Colds suck so bad!

A few minutes and about a half box of Kleenex later, I made my way back out to the living room (where I was determined to sit up for another half hour before giving in to going back to bed) with little Lindsay from my treasured memories in arm.

"It seems my style goes wayyyyy back, Enz," I said as I passed him my sweet Cabbage Patch Preemie, Lindsay, from way back to the year (1983) of the Cabbage Patch Kids, "your disapproval of my choices has no chance of changing it in the now... or the future. "

"You're ridiculous," was his reply.

"Yooouuuuu're welcome!" was mine.

Little Lindsay... long forgotten if not for my mama keeping her safe, still dressed in my top favourite outfit for her of
the MANY outfits I had; a little dress my aunt had made and brown plastic cowgirl boots. LOVE!!!

I was actually surprised myself at just how far back my love for sundresses and cowgirl boots went when I had plucked little Lindsay from my little box of treasures to find her still carefully dressed in my favourite outfit ever for her. But isn't it funny just how far we can come in time yet still remain the same in our hearts even when trends and fashions may change?! There were times I got teased as a kid for my boots as well as when I was a teen and even still at times while trying to adult. But, I don't care and looking at this little doll, I like knowing that I didn't care then, either.

Still sittin' proud in my boots and a dress!

Now, I'm not saying that fashion isn't cool and that trends aren't fun... I seriously LOVE fashion and one of my dreams is to actually get to attend a real fashion design show, just to get to experience it. But in my real life, I love comfort in wearing what makes me feel like, well, me. What are some fashion choices that you've been made fun of for? Did you let it change you or do you wear your own unpopular choices with absolute joy as I do, no matter what anyone else might think or say?