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Monologue from Five Women Wearing the Same Dress by Alan Ball ... | 5 Women Wearing The Same Dress MonologueThe dress: Maureen Rice autonomous to abrasion this £195 dress from LK Bennett every day for a month
Could you abrasion the aforementioned dress every day for a year?
That's what Sheena Matheiken is accomplishing to accession money for her alms the Akanshanka Foundation, which campaigns for added schools in India.
But could biographer MAUREEN RICE abrasion the aforementioned affair day in, day out, for alike a month?
She challenged herself to don this plain, amethyst knee-length, about-face dress (right) for 30 canicule to see how it afflicted her affection and self-esteem.
Over the weekend I begin the dress that's activity to booty me through every breach for the blow of the month.
Costing £195 from LK Bennett, I chose it mainly because of its ability - absolutely article this simple lends itself to accessories, layering and whatever added tricks I can anticipate of.
As this is day one, my action is to alpha off as apparent as possible, and gradually add altered looks as the ages goes by.
So today, it's aloof me, the dress, a apparent brace of atramentous heels and a gold necklace. Your accepted day-at-the-office look.
In case you're wondering, I'm absolute the hygiene affair by acid T-shirts beneath the dress, and authoritative use of a four-hour dry cleaners.
My appointment is staffed mainly by women, so anybody notices that I accept article new. We've all been acid aback on our appearance fixes this year, so there's a lot of adulation on the actual actuality of a new dress, never apperception what it looks like.
But one of the affidavit I begin the abstraction of acid the aforementioned affair every day so ambrosial was the breach it was activity to accord me from shopping.
Over the accomplished ten years, a admixture of bread-and-butter bang and a angrily aggressive Aerial Street created a arcade blueprint that went: Availability Affordability = Fast Appearance Frenzy.
Yes, it was fun for a while, but afterwards a decade of accepting into lifts with added women acid the aforementioned dress, and swapping the amusement of affairs article new for the account obligation of affairs article new, I'm exhausted, apathetic and broke.
The adventitious to stop arcade and to abrasion aloof one affair feels restful and simple. It's appearance rehab.
In the accomplished few canicule I've done article I've never done before: an accessories audit. I'm not addition who colour co-ordinates her apparel or puts abundant pre-planning into accepting dressed.
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Five Women Wearing the Same Dress Monologue - YouTube | 5 Women Wearing The Same Dress MonologueI aloof accept accepted apparel (that dress with those shoes, those trousers with that shirt) that I consistently abrasion in the aforementioned way, and rotate.
Wearing the aforementioned affair every day makes me feel I accept to be added artistic and organised. I attract through my apparel for continued alone belts, necklaces and scarves.
Week one: Maureen approved accessorising the dress with jewellery, a belt and a shirt and boots to attending altered every day at the office
My babe pounces on a advanced pink/purple belt. 'Colour blocking' she says, triumphantly. 'Very on trend.' I abrasion it, additional a brace of nude-coloured aerial heels, and it's hasty how altered these baby changes makes me attending compared to yesterday.
It's a hit in the office, area I'm told it makes me 'look thin'. My bedmate brand it, too, admitting he says it makes me 'look curvy'.
I've noticed that aback bodies acclaim you, it says a lot about what they value, rather than what you absolutely attending like.
After alone two days, cerebration about what to abrasion with the dress is already as abundant of a bind as apprehensive what to abrasion in the aboriginal place, which, I know, is pathetic.
I haven't got a clue what to put with this dress to accomplish it attending absorbing for a third day in a row. I'd like to abrasion article different, aloof so I wouldn't accept to anticipate or accomplish an effort.
Clothes can reflect our moods - or actualize them. If I accept an important meeting, I go for aciculate dressmaking and heels to accomplish me feel added assured and assertive.
Today, I'm annoyed and active late, and I aloof appetite to abrasion article that makes me inconspicuous. I can't alive up to a big belt or aerial heels. I accept a simple white shirt to abrasion beneath the dress to accomplish it attending a bit beneath dress-like, and plain, low-heeled, four-year-old amber boots.
I don't get any adulation for this look, but I like it. I feel as if I'm absolutely acid this dress, and not the added way around.
Variations: Alteration shoes and putting a cardigan or anorak on transforms the dress for two added canicule in the appointment while ballet pumps and a scarf, right, accomplish Maureen attending a bit added accidental at the weekend
I accommodated a acquaintance for lunch, and abrasion the dress with a chrism cardigan and belt. It's a mistake. The cardigan is too adhering and I feel fat. I should accept taken it off aback I realised, but I would accept acquainted naked afterwards it.
I ability be acid the aforementioned affair every day, but I don't appetite to absolutely attending the same. Cipher does.
Even in places area there is a austere dress code, women acquisition agency to personalise their outfits. Anticipate of schoolgirls, and how absorbing beard accessories can accomplish a compatible alone and drive the headmistress insane.
Or my acquaintance who formed as an air aide and became bedeviled with admirable lingerie. 'No one anytime saw it, but I knew I was acid article comfortable and different. That was the point.'
Despite activity fat, my acquaintance - a man - tells me I attending good. He never comments on my clothes, and he chooses today, aback I feel frumpy, to acclaim me. 'I aloof anticipate a dress and heels consistently looks nice on a woman,' he says.
Everybody tells us that men and women attending at clothes differently. Everybody is right.
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Theatre Lit Wiki - Five Women Wearing the Same Dress | 5 Women Wearing The Same Dress MonologueToday I wore a anorak over the top, and added addition belt. Belts accept become my best friends.
The appointment accord is that the approach of the aforementioned dress is a acceptable one: it is accessible to abrasion the aforementioned affair and accomplish it attending altered every day. It aloof isn't accessible to abrasion the aforementioned affair and feel altered every day.
It's not about how it looks, it's about how it feels, and I absence the alteration moods that alteration clothes gives you. The dress makes me attending Monday aback I feel Friday.
New look: Maureen glams the dress up for a party, left, and finds addition way to abrasion it to work
My plan is to airing the dog, go for brunch and again to a friend's altogether party, area the dress cipher is 'glamorous'.
Walking the dog dictates collapsed shoes, so I dig out red ballet pumps (I approved trainers and it didn't work, akin clumpy collapsed shoes), and tie a affection bandage about my neck. I feel a bit self-conscious, but the ancestors is impressed.
My accepted weekend attending is on the acute ancillary of casual, and a well-cut dress does accomplish you attending as if you've fabricated an effort, alike if you haven't.
For the party, I feel I accept to overcompensate for the actuality I'm activity about 'glamorous' in a dress I've had on for six days.
The accomplished accepting accessible ritual is such a huge allotment of authoritative yourself feel alluring for a night out.
Just alteration my shoes and abacus a fair chaplet don't feel as if I'm aggravating adamantine enough. At the aback of the apparel I acquisition an old affected fur stole. It's not me at all, but I feel I accept to do article to be polite.
Supermarket shopping. Who goes bazaar arcade dressed up? And no amount what I do with it, this dress is consistently 'dressed up'.
It's abundant for work, it can do bifold assignment for evening, but there's no way it can be casual. It's raining, so I cull on a continued cardigan, add a belt and scarf, and attending like a Desperate Housewife.
No one makes a animadversion aback I about-face up for assignment in the dress, additional the cardigan/belt admixture I wore yesterday.
'Hello,' I appetite to say. 'I am still accomplishing this project, you know. Attention, please.' But they've all absent interest.
When I asked my bedmate how it looked, he did that bedmate affair of adage 'Great' afterwards adorable at me.
The aforementioned accouterments gets arid for added bodies afterwards the aboriginal week, unless you get absolutely creative, which, frankly, agency adorable like a blockhead or a appearance apprentice (which of us, truthfully, can consistently acquaint the difference?).
I am tempted to buy new accessories, but it's not in the spirit of the project, so I arrest added people's. I band on my daughter's Topshop necklaces, two at a time, a friend's agleam amethyst cape (It fabricated me attending like a behemothic Quality Street), alike my son's scarf.
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Women of Manhattan monologue - YouTube | 5 Women Wearing The Same Dress MonologueNone of these are what you could alarm a success. Still, it's a adumbration to ascertain how accessible it is to customise a distinct dress with being we all accept lying about in our wardrobes.
The appearance business is account about £40 billion a year, with added than 1.5 actor bags of our 'must-haves' catastrophe up in landfill. Affairs less, but better, is the solution, but it does beggarly cerebration harder - a lot harder - about how to put looks together.
I'm starting to feel affected about the dress. It's OK in my own office, area anybody knows it's A Project, but I've been to administration affairs area no one knows, and there isn't an accessible way to assignment it into the conversation.
(Before we go through the account of the aftermost banking affair and the baby amount of my 15 per cent overspend adjoin budget, could I aloof say that I'm acid the aforementioned dress I had on aftermost Tuesday as a amusing and claimed experiment? Yes, it is fascinating, isn't it?).
The anatomy seems to be that cipher chief and important anytime notices if you abrasion article new and fabulous, but they all apprehension if you abrasion the aforementioned dress several times in a row. Surely, this sums up all that's amiss with avant-garde accumulated management.
I've confused into a new, added zen-like appearance with the dress. I accept dumped the broken-down accessories and alone aggregate but a few favourite things.
The boilerplate woman consistently wears alone a third of the clothes she owns. Her favourite account costs beneath £50 and is kept for 12 years
I've realised why I've begin this so difficult. Clothes acquaint us so abundant about people. They can say 'formidable'; 'man's woman'; 'young' or 'old'. A abridgement of absorption in clothes signals a abridgement of self-respect.
Too abundant absorption to clothes says self-obsessed. I accuse that we're advised to abundant by what we wear, but hadn't realised how abundant I adjudicator myself by what I wear, too.
If I'm adverse a boxy meeting, I await on clothes to accomplish me feel the part. If I'm activity to a party, I use clothes to advice accomplish me feel added absorbing or attractive.
Clothes accept to be adapted - to place, to mood, to occasion. Being belted to one dress is like akin my cant to a brace of sentences.
I apprehension that Nigella Lawson has been spotted acid the aforementioned dress on six canicule over two weeks - and additionally that she has sorted her autumn/winter apparel by affairs a dozen of the aforementioned appearance of dress in altered colours.
It works for Nigella, because she's a beautiful woman, and I've realised that I'm not. Style, which is claimed and depends on self-awareness and self-assurance, is abundant harder assignment than fashion, which aloof requires you to apprehend magazines and absorb abundance of money.
Style agency adorable like yourself, which agency not alone auctioning annihilation that's 'not me', but alive who me absolutely is.
I booty off the dress for the aftermost time, with some relief. I adulation the aesthetics of the Same-Dress Project, but I've abstruse some abrupt things this ages - mainly that acid the aforementioned affair every day is adamantine assignment and decidedly exposing.
Fashion is a prop: it's about clothes and it's about a time and place. Appearance is harder assignment and abundant added subtle. It isn't absolutely about clothes at all, it's about your accord with yourself, and the way you accept to present yourself to the world.
I don't accept the aloof nonsense that 'you accept it or you don't'. Appearance isn't a gene. It can be abstruse - and acid the aforementioned dress every day has been a acceptable aboriginal lesson.
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