[clovember]

[kaberett]

Today I am mostly in lab, with 20-30 minute breaks between flurries of activity in the main room that is currently at 16degC WHICH IS AN IMPROVEMENT ON THE 13degC IT WAS WHEN I GOT IN AT 7.30. (By all means tell me it isn't that cold! Then you get to sit stationary on an uncomfortable wooden stool in significant wind chill. "But Alex," you are perhaps thinking, "your laboratory is indoors," and you'd be right - but it's a clean lab, with the entire air volume of the suite of rooms being replaced 50 times an hour, with additional positive pressure inside the flow hoods, so it is in fact non-trivial.) Hence: bad selfies.

Deep navy blue jumper with bizarre drawstrings at waist, probably from a charity shop, acquired when sorting through Mama's clothes after her death; checked too-large-for-me shirt largely invisible, definitely acquired from a charity shop by Mama for Papa (when it turned out not to fit she attempted to give it to Middle Brother, who disdained it, which is how I ended up with it); fringed dip-dyed scarf/shawl in dusky blues from a charity shop but this time acquired by me; disconcerting-shade-of-green corduroy trousers acquired from eBay this week; and, of course, the boots (courtesy as always of the boything ♥):

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[kaberett]

(I continue deeply weirded out by the extent to which I am bang-on the current Western beauty standard. I still mostly think of myself as scruffy and the wrong shape - partly leftover mental illness, partly dysphoria - and it is disconcerting every time I re-realise that this, too, is a privilege I have.)

[highlyeccentric]

You also have pretty snazzy taste in clothes! And shoes!

If you feel like showing off your clothes and/or face to the wider internets, note , run by menysnowballes acos of this conversation. I happen to know the content is more consistently cis fem ladies than menysnowballes would like...

[kaberett]

ha I am gently perturbed by the extent to which I have developed a ~style~ and also honestly pretty perturbed by the extent to which I have slotted in to London -- these days I think I've dressed appropriately for a walk along the cliffs on a blustery day and I still, in comparison to everyone else I pass, look like I've been dropped straight out of the middle of a city. (It used to be very much the other way around, hence the impression that I'm scruffy, but that appears to... not be the case any more.)

Thank you! I will consider!