I'm working from home today. I worked from home yesterday. The reason? Oh, I made a classic error when I went out dancing on Friday night. (No, not the boots before corset error.)
I wore boots with grippy traction soles when I went dancing. Grippy traction soles do NOT work well with my style of goth dancing. So at one point, I managed to catch one of my boot heels on the lowest rung of my hoop skirt, and sat down rather abruptly. (The StuntHusband says that it looked completely intentional and part of my dancing; he didn't know it was an accident until he got a look at my face.)
What this means is that my lower back is Not Happy with me. And because I have a pretty high pain tolerance, I merrily ignored the twinges and spent all of Sunday afternoon going up and down stairs and moving boxes. That was not clever of me, no. I am now propped up on the couch with assorted laptops and notebooks, and I see my wonderful chiropractor tomorrow before I go to the office.
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Gah. I have SO MANY sewing projects I want to work on (at least 3 different skirts, not to mention two jacket alterations), but I know that I should not distract myself with such things, and really, REALLY need to knuckle down and work on writing. There are not enough hours in the day, I tell you.
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EDITED TO ADD: Thanks to one of the alternative/dark fashion tumblr feeds I follow, I just saw someone asking where to find velvet leggings. Now is the time for all of us ElderGoths to feel old. Also, a note for the hipster-goth, terribly fashion-forward types: Leggings ARE NOT pants. Listen to us ElderGoths, please.
I wore boots with grippy traction soles when I went dancing. Grippy traction soles do NOT work well with my style of goth dancing. So at one point, I managed to catch one of my boot heels on the lowest rung of my hoop skirt, and sat down rather abruptly. (The StuntHusband says that it looked completely intentional and part of my dancing; he didn't know it was an accident until he got a look at my face.)
What this means is that my lower back is Not Happy with me. And because I have a pretty high pain tolerance, I merrily ignored the twinges and spent all of Sunday afternoon going up and down stairs and moving boxes. That was not clever of me, no. I am now propped up on the couch with assorted laptops and notebooks, and I see my wonderful chiropractor tomorrow before I go to the office.
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Gah. I have SO MANY sewing projects I want to work on (at least 3 different skirts, not to mention two jacket alterations), but I know that I should not distract myself with such things, and really, REALLY need to knuckle down and work on writing. There are not enough hours in the day, I tell you.
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EDITED TO ADD: Thanks to one of the alternative/dark fashion tumblr feeds I follow, I just saw someone asking where to find velvet leggings. Now is the time for all of us ElderGoths to feel old. Also, a note for the hipster-goth, terribly fashion-forward types: Leggings ARE NOT pants. Listen to us ElderGoths, please.
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Oh, I feel a faint coming on. The thought of velvet leggings makes me feel light-headed, and not in a good way.
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I'm home myself. I have cooties, and they don't want me to sleep.
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Footless tights & leggings look great under tunics or skirts! But they Are. Not. Pants. (Yes, I can be a touch cranky and irrational about this. I admit it.)
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Now if only some ElderGoths would learn that leggings aren't pants...
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(and Leggings, indeed, ARE NOT pants!)
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I admit I have worn leggings as pants. Completely opaque wet-look ones. With tall buckle-boots, a black leather corset, and a black tank top, and a long black leather coat. I referred to it inwardly as my Matrix Costume, and I actually rather liked it.
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(I have a tragic hair-metal past, so I am very familiar with leggings-as-pants. Black velvet ones, even, worn with a not-quite-hip-length black ruffly poet/pirate shirt. I would like to travel back in time and shake my younger self quite soundly.)
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But not as pants!
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I usually wear them as a warm, soft layer under long skirts, but will now have to expand that to include shorter skirts and tunics. Not as pants, I promise. Cross my heart. I've got my own memories of that misstep.
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I do have friends that do wear them as pants--but it's almost an 80's/early 90's costume on them, so they get a pass. They know what they're doing looks ridiculous, and for them, that's the point.
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I prefer CrustyGoth to ElderGoth, the later implies responsibility and I'm taking this incarnation off and avoiding that as much as I can.
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And no, velvet leggings are not pants. They are, however, perfectly wonderful to wear under skirts, either because it's too cold to wear regular tights or because one is... erm... of a rounder build and wishes not to chafe.
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Hope your back feels better! I've been there, myself. Not for the same reason, though- I slipped down some concrete stairs.
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Too grippy = sad back!
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You're not the only one that hates watching people wear leggings as pants. It's just ugly. Too many of those "I want to be fashion-forward" girls use it all the time in Norway too and I don't see the point in it. Pants are pants and leggings are not.