There are some things that are wardrobe staples - pieces that you wear over and over and over again that go with everything. Those distressed black jeans, for example? The wear-everywhere black tote? Staples.

And then there are other things that aren't "practical," per se…but that are just too amazing to pass up. Like…I don't know: a huge, cozy sweater with an enormous faux fur hood. Cream-colored tops aren't what I usually pick these days largely because I'm usually carrying one or two human beings with a tendency to emit various substances onto my person, and I try to steer clear of dry-clean-only items, but...

But...

Before I start, let me say that this is not an outfit that I wore in my "real" life, as it were - it's what I put together to wear to the Renaissance Faire last weekend. I started out in this crazy long robe-ish thing, and then realized that wearing what amounts to a cream-colored ball gown to cavort around in a big, dusty field full of people waving swords and goblets of beer and CAMELS, for god's sake, is a fairly obvious disaster waiting to happen...and decided that flowers and a leather headband and a whole bunch of jangly jewelry were Renaissance Faire-y enough to make me feel like I was participating without heading into the wildly-uncomfortable-seeming territory of corsets and full skirts and such.

So this isn't exactly an outfit; it's more of a "costume."

But maybe…it shouldn't be? I mean, it doesn't look too far away from what I wear on any old day…and I felt so good in this. Comfortable and happy and free. And also sort of like a Robin Wright's character in Forrest Gump, which is never a bad thing.