Clothing styles

Now, I have a rather ecclectic style of dress.  Bohemian I guess would be my description.  Longer skirts (until it's 90 degrees anyway), a looser top that's not tooooooooooooo revealing.  I wear a "steampunk" utility belt rather than carrying a purse.  I'm just tired of lugging a purse & having the damn strap pull my hair!   So I guess my style looks more like this...

Steampunk utility belt

Lots of color and stripes

Colors and layers

Short skirts are great

I'm a bit more practical though, no flip flops or damn high heels for me.  Sensible shoes.  Cowboy boots.  Manitowoc boots.  I'm not hurting my already weak ankle twisting it by wearing stupid shoes.


Vests?  Sure.  Sweaters?  Sure, if I'm going outside.  It's pretty mild here in Arkansas.  So I don't need really heavy clothing most of the time. 

• Jewelry and accessories to jangle and dangle like a gypsy
• Alternatively, ethnic jewelry - Indian silver, wooden beads
• Long skirts, sarongs
• Layers. Lots of layers...
• Why drape one leather belt round your waist when you can have two?
• Various clothing bits and bobs imported from India, Mexico or Thailand
• Possibly at least one item woven from hemp
• Braids.  I love braids
• Baskets for carrying my knitting or spinning
• Gypsy bohemian style icons: 19th century gypsies, new age travellers, Victorian dancer Isadora Duncan

If I'm just going through my day as usual, I wear a nice top and a skirt.  It's just what I like.


Now, John's style is completely different.  If it's not practical while he's working in the wood shop or fixing plumbing, he's not wearing it.  So... you're going to find him dressed like this...

Men's uniform clothing

Which is totally cool with me.  He's happy wearing uniforms every day.  No problem.

Needless to say, our styles are not similar at all.  He doesn't want anything that will snag...  I like flouncy stuff.

I dress like this every day.  Unless we're cutting wood or tilling the garden.  Then you'll see me dressed like a sensible woman.

Women's outdoor work clothes

Long pants.  Long sleeve shirt.  Workboots.  Around here we have chiggers, ticks, poisonous snakes, stump holes in the ground... Guinea holes from dirt baths.   And when I'm working outside I have to dress accordingly.

I don't do as much work outside as I did 7 years ago.  Back then, it was just John and I.  When there was clearing to be done, we did it together.  When there was framing to do, we did it together.  When there was woodcutting to be done, we did it together. Most of the clearing and house renovating have been done.   We're both getting older (and less able).  And so, I don't need to dress for outdoor work much anymore.

That gives me more time to dress like a gypsy!  And I like that!