One dress too many?

Posted by: fracas on April 29 @ 10:36 pm

I’m in bed not feeling well at all. A looong day, hours in traffic, a cancelled meeting, a great prokect kick-off….and I’m beat. Well I was suppose to upload my little blog post of todays happenings hours ago, but as I fell a sleep shortly after 9 pm, here is it in unrevised format…

Thursday 11.56

It must be one of those idiosyncrasies that only women are so prone to….at midnight, just having completed a draft business plan and downing the last bit of Prosecco that was standing on my bedside table, a thought came into my mind. What was the weather going to be like for the coming day? I quickly pulled up my Mac from under the bed and googled “Amsterdam weather”. 21 degrees and sunshine! My mind started going in loops. What do you wear on the first summer day of the year? The green Jean Paul Gaultier, a tight conservative number from Karen Millen or a newly bought black, beaded dress from Paul & Joe? I settled for a blue and white striped (very French, very chic) number from Edith & Ella, accompanied by a waist high (or low) white cardigan, black Mary Janes from Karen Millen (always works) and patent leather handbag from Mulberry.

Laying there, in utter darkness fantasizing about my wardrobe for the coming day brought back memories from adolescence. I recalled those late spring days in Malmo, when summer hadn’t yet conquered it’s predecessor, and weather was as predictable as the Presidential elections. I would run out on our balcony checking the temperature. If it was marginally within reach of 20 degrees, it was shorts weather and any Benetton or La Coste shorts from my limited collection (I was not such a collector in those days) came out on display. A few years later, when flowery dresses supplanted the shorts trend, I would start the very same process of picking out my dress du jour the evening before. No wonder I couldn’t get to sleep…

…now….in a cab for a lunch meeting in Amsterdam South, then presenting business plan…then who knows…the weather is good….I quite fancy a glass of Prosecco…