Part 27: The Style Fail
Welcome back to what I like to call the: 'Melissa has time to blog at work era'. Today's topic is something I always secretly wanted when I was a little girl but now that I have it, I don't know how to handle it. You may have figured out by now that I have been called as a Den Leader in my ward. When I was 5-10 years old and had 3 older brothers all in scouts, I just knew I would look amazing and cool in a scout shirt... if only I could have one. Basically, I was picturing the above picture. Doesn't she look super cute? To be fair to myself, I don't own a scout hat yet but let me tell you, things are not looking promising.
I was actually called back in March but it took me a while to get my shirt because I wanted one of the really really cute yellow ones. It turns out they just discontinued those so I couldn't find one smaller than a size 52 (yeah, I don't know either) so I had to just settle for a really cute tan one. I got word about a month ago that there was going to be a cub scout leader pow wow at the end of August and in the instructions, it said I needed to wear my uniform because some of the classes were going to be in the chapel. That's when I finally knuckled down and bought their smallest shirt that came just in time for me to wear it.
I don't think I can adequately describe my disappointment when I put it on and realized that I look superbly lame in it. No problem, I thought, I can just put on my army pants and army belt and tuck in the shirt and that will solve everything! But, do you see how the ladies above look like cute den leaders with their outfits on? I do not look like that with my 'outfit' on. But I think I've figured out the problem. I don't have a chest. See how their shirt is appropriately tight in that area? Mine doesn't do that. I even sewed up the sides to make it smaller and it still doesn't even begin to look like them. I just look like a boy with a chin-length bob cut.
That was not a good start to my day. But when I got there, I realized that only the older den leaders were wearing their uniform. All the girls that were 45 or younger were wearing their normal cute jeans or shorts and flip flops. The obedient molly in me wanted to feel self-righteous that I had followed instructions, but I really just knew that I was officially a scouting nerd. Can anyone help me? How do I make my outfit cute? You don't want to know all the different ideas that have gone through my head but I think chances are low that any of them would look good. But that's ok because this is a challenge and it's the challenges that keep me alive.
5 comments:
You were right to warn me. I did almost faint. To be fair, I don't think the lady in the yellow shirt looks that cute. We'll experiment with the look this weekend....
Just add a little stuffing to the top. Is that inappropriate......
I don't know anything about how to be cute. But I just need to comment on the whole scout uniform thing. I think scouting is a great program but they take the uniform way too far. Did you know they have scout underwear? When I was in scouts the leaders wanted everyone to have a full uniform and I actually sat through a debate in my ward where they had quite a heated discussion about whether we should require all the boys to wear scout underwear.
Maybe scout underwear would help you get the look you require. You can't see it but I'm sure it just gives you the confidence you need to pull off the right look.
Everyone knows that cardigans make anything better!!
Umm..so that comment from "Molly" was really from me! My student teacher was somehow logged into my account...hehe
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