This is a shop-your-wardrobe opportunity, because you can wear the same sequins you used to wear after dark
Sequins used to have a 9pm watershed, like sex and swearing on telly. You wore them to parties, for nights when you were not just out but out-out, but they were decidedly NSFW. Now that you can wear jeans to parties and trainers to fancy restaurants, those kind of rules don’t really apply. I’m not suggesting a sequined skirt is a 16-hour desk-to-dinner look, but it could definitely do a Saturday lunch – possibly even brunch, although be prepared to drink mimosas. (That is totally going to happen in this skirt, so you may as well face facts.)
This is a shop-your-wardrobe opportunity, because you can wear the same sequins for the daylight hours as you used to wear for after dark – you just wear them in a different way. The skirt I am wearing here is one of mine that used to be a dress, a long time ago. It was a simple, stretchy, short-ish dress with spaghetti straps that I used to wear out-out with ankle-strap sandals and a denim jacket. I stopped wearing it like that a while ago. I’ve little truck with rigid rules about what’s age appropriate, but I don’t think clinging determinedly to a look that represents who you were a decade ago is all that healthy. You and your wardrobe can evolve and mature without going full pelt into elasticated-waistband loungewear.
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