Tonight, while cleaning my room, and hanging all the garments I had strewn on the floor, I discovered I had an addiction. One that has plagued me since I was a child, but now that I am financially independent, has gotten worse. It keeps me from being able to afford fancy food at Whole Foods on a regular basis. It keeps me from saving for the future. It keeps me from playing football (as if I care..). I am addicted to DRESSES. It sounds ridiculous, but my roommate Dana and I counted them and I have at least 77 Dresses (She has 15, 3 that I gave her). I am sure the Kardashians have oodles more. But for my lowly income bracket as an artist, and considering that I don’t have fancy events to attend, every night at least….that’s a lot of dresses. Almost like Carrie’s addiction to shoes, she discovered, when she was trying to figure out where all her money went as she was trying to buy her apartment. My addiction is not quite that bad, but this morning I had 74 dresses….and Tonight I have 77.
In comparison to most girls I am surrounded by, I wear dresses more often. I only bought my third pair of pants last month when I realized I needed them working on set in a desert in Mexico. However, I can guarantee you that I have not worn many of those dresses more than 2 times, and some I don’t know if I even fit in anymore. About 10 of them are evening wear, and only wearable on occasion. And a few I keep for costume purposes. But I love them all.
I can tell you a story about every dress that I own: the most significant thing that happened when I wore it, the emotional state I was in at the time that made me purchase it, the reason I bought it…
And consequently, I am staging an intervention on myself and you will keep me accountable…
Until the end of December…I am not allowed to purchase a new dress. Instead I must wear all the dresses I own, and you will hear the stories…Now if I don’t have a reason to keep one, or realize that a certain dress traps bad energy from the past of some sort…then out it goes. (I’m freaking out right now…I have three dresses at Anthropology.com waiting in my cart, and BTW this link is in case you want to buy my favorite one for me in size 6.)
So…if you want to see me in one…invite me to something….a party, coffee…I’ll be out an about wearing one of my 1/77 dresses…waiting for the New Year when I either Debut a new dress…or find more fulfillment in…well..some other form of personal expression….