Don't Judge Me and I Will Try Not To Judge You

This past weekend I met a good friend of mine Renetta for dinner and drinks on Saturday night. Now normally, I would be obsessing on what I was going to wear and would have probably gone to the mall a few times to buy a couple of new things...you know just so I could go out to dinner. It can be very exhausting to always think that you have to be the best dressed and have to have new clothes to wear anytime you do something. Even if it’s as simple as having dinner with friends, I want to be dressed perfectly and God forbid I have to wear something from my own closet! So mid day on Saturday, Renetta texted me asking what I was going to wear and to my amazement I hadn’t given it much thought. Probably because I can’t buy anything anyways, so what’s the point, right? I texted her back saying I didn’t know and then the panic set in. I starting thinking what on earth am I going to wear? I mean it’s not a lot of fun to have to wear the same outfits over and over. Which, just so you know, I normally only wear something a few times and then it’s considered old to me. I am very spoiled and shallow but that’s just me, so get over it! The only thing that I usually wear over and over again are shoes and that’s just because I spend a lot of money on those suckers! So after looking through my closet I decided to go casual cute. Which means I wore my Alice and Olivia denim leggings (one of my favorite things in my closet) a BCBG top and one of my favorite, non designer heels! All and all I was pretty happy with what I was wearing and was excited to have a night out with a good friend. This is where the story get’s interesting...

When Renetta and I hang out we always, ALWAYS, have such a good time. There is never any drama and we always manage to entertain ourselves. So after we had dinner at Kotta (sushi place in Frisco) we decided to stay around the Frisco area, instead of venturing to uptown, so we headed to Loft 610. We were having a good time (Hey Renetta, do you need a shot of water with that?!?) when I noticed these two girls across the bar taking pictures of people. Now, I will admit that I was entertaining myself by making a few comments about some folks there that were making their way into the bar. Which you probably would have as well if you were there and were seeing what I was seeing. To put it midly, just think thirty thousand dollar millionaire types ie: Dallas Douchebags! So back to the two girls that were taking pictures. I mean they were literally taking pictures of everyone at the bar, looking at them and laughing. I was appalled by their behavior. I actually couldn’t believe that someone would actually do that and that nobody even noticed what they were doing besides Renetta, me and the bartenders! This was probably because everyone was in their own state of intoxication at this point… but come on, have a little tact! I even took a picture of them taking a picture of others (see below).

But seeing these girls do this got me thinking about how much emphasis we, as a society, put on image and what we wear. These girls were literally making fun of the way people look and what they were wearing. But let’s face it...if you are wearing anything Affliction/Ed Hardy inspired… you deserve to be made fun of. But don’t deserve someone taking pictures of you and then laughing at them...plain as day! I honestly get so fired up when I think about these two idiots. I wonder what is so bad in their life that they have to make fun of others that way and what makes them so damn perfect?

So the point to this rant is that I hope to come out of my challenge, not being as shallow and materialistic as I know that I am. I know there are more important things to life than what designer I am wearing. Just need to learn that clothes don’t make the person. (sigh)

PS: Before anybody judges me on anything that I write about (like the girls did) just remember that this is a blog about shopping. I am not trying to solve the world’s problem, this is meant to be light hearted and entertaining.