A Change of Shade

Hello Everyone,

Now this post is really nothing to do with veganism, raw food or any food. Please feel free to yawn and stop reading here.

I have it in my head to start seeing what it feels like to dress differently.

Now I am not about to start to wear a ballgown everywhere I go. Although that would be an experiment in self that I would happily do.

I am planning on trying a new colour on for size. Normally, almost every day that I live, I wear black, mostly from head to toe. Every. Single. Day. Sometimes I will mix things up and wear a bit of red, but the clothes that I wear all the time are black.

Now as stylish (and lazy) this is of me, it has not gone unnoticed by my work colleagues. When we were told that it was OK to come into the office in normal clothes, one of the more sensible men in the office quipped "So, does that mean that you are going to come in wearing white?"

A couple of days later I was reading an article in the New York Times online about five people who only wore one colour.

An idea was born. What would I feel like if I dressed from head to toe in white instead of my wardrobe staple of black? Would people react to me differently? Would I be happier? Would my boss give me a pay rise? Or would people just think I was unstable?

So yesterday, I took a bit of a long lunch, bit the bullet and bought myself some new wardrobe staples. White trousers, white t-shirts and white socks which are a particular pet peeve.

While I was looking round the shops I noticed that it was actually very easy to pick out the white clothes, they shone out from the others, you could just see them. Even better there were lots of them in stock as I'm not in so much competition like when I go shopping for black clothes. This could either be a good ting or a bad sign. Time will tell.

I'm challenging myself, just for fun and perhaps a bit of personal development, to wear white for a whole month. So for the month of June, I will wear white, and no doubt do a LOT of laundry.