CAUTION!!!!! This post is about clothes! If you are offended or put off by this kind of thing, please run for your life until the next post! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH! See you later in the week!
Dear Those-of-You-Who-Are-Left,
When you are a bleached blond not only by bottle but somewhat by nature, it is not always easy to explain how your brain comes up with certain concepts but, alas, I am going to try to tell you how this post was conceived. You may need to pour another cup of coffee because it’s rather involved and, not only that, it could not possibly be less important.
Maybe I should say that last part again: It could not POSSIBLY be less important. Proceed from here at your own colossal waste of time.
While many of you have frozen half to death in other parts of the country and world, we have enjoyed a series of near perfect days in a city that, in the summertime, could well be selected as the sweaty armpit of Planet Humanity. Except for a rainy respite here and there, Houston has basked in blue skies and cool breezes with trees budding and birds heralding the in-breaking Spring for such a run of days now that we might well fear that the end is near.
Last Thursday was so utterly gorgeous that, the second I got home from work, I pitched my purse and keys on the counter and headed to the spot where I keep my rubber boots. I couldn’t help but get tickled because all it takes for my two brilliant little canines to rev up for a romp in the woods is for me to start changing shoes. Running amok in these country acres makes them so exuberantly happy that I could honestly swallow gnats from over-smiling as I trudge the path behind them. And I trudge quickly, like my boots are on fire, or they’ll leap and bound themselves to the next county. (Side note: You don’t dare run in these woods if you’re a human or you will break your foot on a big, fat root. And you will miss the poetry in those last 8 words if you do not hear the word “root” as my grandmother would say it: root as would rhyme with foot. Now, try it again: break your foot on a big, fat root. Got it?) So, while I was bringing up the rear (hopefully literally), I was overcome by their imposing enthusiasm and overall cuteness and decided to take a picture of them and tweet about how smart they were. This is the picture.
That is Geli (pronounced “jelly” and short for Angelina) in the front and my own Queen Esther, or Star for short, hanging back a tad closer to her mother. Geli appears headless in every single picture I take of her from behind because she is a bird dog and runs snoot down. I mentioned in the tweet how they know their run is coming just by a changing of the boots. (Kind of like a changing of the guard.) Then, after I got a few fun responses, I thought to my blond self, “If I were on the other side of that tweet, visual soul that I am, I’d be trying to picture the pairs of shoes involved in the person’s exchange.” SO, I did what any red-blooded superficial woman would do. I tweeted a picture of the boots. (Are you on pins and needles by now? Isn’t this post riveting?)
I told the good folks on Twitter that, after I pitched my keys, I exchanged the boots on the right for the boots on the left but, based on the replies, I do believe most of them flipped the order around in their own mind’s eye. I think they assumed I’d had on the rubber boots and changed to the cowboy boots for the walk in country. Au contraire mon ami. Those are gen-u-ine (long “i” on last syllable) Lucchese’s and you don’t wear them in the mud and sticks. Or at least I don’t. I have other cowboy boots I would subject to the ugly elements but not those. Those are the boots I’d worn to work. All said, I switched to the rubber boots for the walk. I can only imagine how intellectually stimulated you must be by now. It’s just that, if we’re going to be visual learners, let’s try to get our visions as accurate as possible. Now I’ll go on if you’re caught up.
So, I’d mentioned in the tweet that those Lucchese’s were a gift to me from the great Texas town of El Paso. Lo and behold, only a few minutes later, what to my wondering eyes should appear but a tweet capturing the momentous reception of those very boots?? The snapshot below was backstage with the most wonderful and gracious handful of women you could imagine at our Living Proof Live Saturday morning before our session began. We seldom do this kind of thing and I also don’t make a practice of receiving lavish gifts but this was arranged in advance and was, quite simply, a matter of heritage. It takes a Texan to know one. That’s all I know to say. Don’t bother entertaining the thought that I did not put the boots on instantly and wear them for the rest of the day to teach. Of course I did. And home on the plane.
SO (there will be lots of “so’s” in this post because I’m taking you with me on a dizzying journey of the blond psyche and I’m trying to sew/so the pieces together for you) THEN I noticed that I had on the exact same jacket in the picture in El Paso that I’d worn to work THAT VERY DAY. (Did any of you catch your breath??) Some of you regulars even with abbreviated memories may remember because there is a picture in the previous blog of me wearing it. This is not the exact same picture I used in that post but it’s among the handful KMac and I took for it and it gives you a better view of the jacket. I wish it was full length because the same boots would really provide the finishing touch. (And, if there is anything some of you are wanting by now, it’s the finishing touch.)
Now, let’s admit it. There’s absolutely nothing impressive about me having on the same jacket in 2013 that I wore in the picture from Living Proof Live El Paso in 2009. But surely you will quit that slouching in your desk-chair post haste when I tell you that I bought it at a Lord & Taylor department store in Houston, Texas that has been closed for a solid decade and have worn it for 13 years with a devotion that can only come from true smittenness. I have loved it every time I’ve worn it.
Whose boots are stepping in this hay with me now, Sisters? Are you beginning to see the light? Because this post is about those rare and elusive pieces of clothing that we can actually call a good buy. And the best way to tell a good buy is that you…
never can say good-bye. No, no, no, no.
SO (everybody say that word with me now), I marched into my closet when I got home from that walk in the country and commenced to grabbing hangers. The result of that mad hanger-grabbing was 7 of my personal favorites from what I will henceforth call my 5+ Year Club. Each of these jackets have not only been in my closet for five or more years. They are still on the active list, getting plenty of current wear. Drum roll please:
I love this one. It’s got a darling little strip of that beading on the lower back, too. It’s a good choice for a big room. Tailored but not stuffy. Just in case you care to know a fairly reliable dressing guide for female communicators, the smaller the room, the better off you are if your clothing is understated. The larger the room, the larger you might tend to go on the look so that you don’t disappear in it. (Of course, the rub is that “larger” is a highly subjective matter. For instance, small rooms never kept me from large hair.) Addendum: I just heard from one of you on Twitter who said I wore this jacket at LPL Portland in 2003. Boom.
As you can see, the following is the utmost in understated. Clearing throat. So sue me. I’ve totally loved it. I wear it numerous times a year but without fail on Valentine’s. It is even brighter red than it looks in this picture if you can imagine that and I most like to wear it with black slim-legged slacks or jeans.
Melissa gave me the next jacket for Christmas a number of years ago. She and I tried to think exactly how long it’s been but couldn’t quite put a date on it. It makes the 5+ Year Club for certain though. It would have been a little pricier because it came from a rack at Anthropologie. It was a splurge for love of her mother and one not put to waste. I’ve worn it a million times. Because it’s bell shaped, I go with a slimmer leg on this one, too. My usual rule is: blousy top, slimmer bottom. Slimmer top, blousier bottom.
I wish I could remember exactly where I got this next one because it was my favorite kind of buy: super cheap and great fun. (Interjection: Melissa proofread the post and said, “Mom, you got it at Forever 21.” Embarrassingly, I think I did.) It is well beyond the 5 year mark and still not nearing the retirement list. I wore it to teach one Tuesday night during this recent round of women’s Bible study and somehow must have gone so utterly wild that I flung a button. (See fourth spot below) I did, however, find the button up on the third level of the church auditorium where it had put somebody’s eye out (all of that part was a lie). I will soon break out the needle and thread, as much as I hate to, and give it a mending. Or at least before next Fall.
Come on, Western Girls, and give this one a hand! BEST WESTERN COAT I HAVE EVER OWNED. Hands down. I’m going to estimate it at about 8 years old. Its story, however, has taken a recent turn that will color it, I fear, a whole new shade. A few weeks ago a young barista at a Starbucks told me how much she liked it and I was so powerfully jolted by the spirit of giving that I scared the living fire out of her. Wild-eyed and grinning madly, I ripped it off my shoulders and said, “Take off that green apron right this minute! Try this on! I want to give it to you!” To which she responded with horror and said (I wish you could hear the tone of this as I write it) “I don’t WANT your jacket!” And off she went with her lighter and pack of cigarettes like she was running from Freddy Krueger. I think she may have been staring at me from safe cover as I walked with my head down to my car, slinking like one who’d been shamed. For some reason I’m tickled. Let’s move on.
We are now nearing the end of Beth’s personal favorites in her 5+ Year Club. This next selection gets honorable mention because it is without a doubt the one I’ve worn the most. It is multipurpose and can be dressed up or dressed down. I’ve spoken or taught in it more times than I could count, worn it to dinner with Keith (when we used to actually go to restaurants because we lived in an actual city), worn it to church, and to numerous funerals and it is still a long way from worn out and nowhere near retirement. If I were quizzing you, I’d ask this: Based on my rule of pairing earlier stated, would I wear slimmer pant-legs or blousier pant-legs with this?
Blousies win.
I saved this one for last because it is the jacket of my life. Yep. My all-time favorite. I could almost pause for a moment of silence. Melissa got it for me for Mother’s Day while she was in college and that was a minimum of eight years ago so it’s at least that old. Amanda and I do a lot of gift-giving as well, needless to say. It’s just that Melissa has been more prone to jacket-buying somehow. It’s the neatest fabric ever and such a pretty blend colors. It’s truly my favorite thing in the closet. I don’t wear it as much as I used to but I just can’t seem to say good bye. I want to retire it like a basketball jersey and have it hung in one of my daughter’s homes after I’ve passed. Addendum: Amanda has now added that a theme has emerged here today: my best jackets have clearly come from Melissa. For this reason, I am leaving instructions in my will for this jacket to be hung in Amanda’s home for time immemorial.
This final selection is meant to serve as a warning not to buy things when you are hormonal. It is the most hideous thing in my closet. It looks and feels like something a deep sea diver would wear and you sweat in it like you’re wearing a tall kitchen trash bag. It’s so orange, cars yield to it and pumpkins bow. I am ashamed to show it to you but, to be fair, I feel that I must. We make it a practice to air some of our dirty laundry here on this blog. I still own it, not because it was a good buy, but because it wasn’t and because I am trying to punish myself by making myself wear it. I put it on from time to time and think something to the tune of, “This is what you get.” I have to challenge myself when I wear it not to try to explain it to people I’m with. I have this feeling that most would not fully grasp that I am trying to punish myself. I need to give it away but really. Who wants it?
SO, that’s it. Let me just go ahead and say that I am sorry for this post. I have a feeling that some of you read all the way to this point because you, too, are in a self-punishing mood. I’d like to thank you.
Stinking hilarious! I have literally sat through several of your DVD studies and thought, wow this lady really loves jackets!! Totally explains why! Seriously though, you’re in the country now go throw that orange one in a brush pile!! That can’t look good on anyone!
not sure it would actually burn up though 🙂
LOL! You may be right Monica!
Love this post! I have done your bible studies for years and I have to admit, although my first priority was what you were teaching…right behind that was what you were wearing – ha! I love how you express yourself not just with your amazing words but also with what you wear. Im not a ‘fashion’ girl but love your choices – you always look great 🙂
Thanks for the laugh – I have to go clean out my closet now!
Love you Beth!
This blog post made me so happy. Thank you!
Such fun. Great post. If you’d offered me that coat it would be in my closet–or on my body. No shame.
You are loved!
It felt like we were sitting down in your kitchen, going through your favorites and laughing over coffee. Thanks for ALL you share, it’s always the REAL deal!!!
Hi Beth,
Your post today, although not spiritual, is refreshing and personal! It’s a gift when you share on this level. I love your style and zeal for life and for the Lord. I’m working through JESUS THE ONE AND ONLY Bible Study; and I have to say that your style has evolved over the years! Some of your outfits make me smile in that video series! But you always appear beautiful outside and in.
Blessings,
Michele
Thanks Beth for keeping it human!
🙂
Oh I just love you to pieces! This post makes my day. “bringing up the rear, literally” HA! My favorite!
Oh, Beth! You have been blessed with impeccable taste and and even better sense of humor! Thanks sooo… much for just being real with us here and teaching us to love each other just as we are. And we do love you, Siesta Mama! Have a blessed and FUN day!!
Love the boots (both pairs), love the jackets (with the exception of the last), love the post! Keep ’em comin’!
How much fun was this to read!! And I am sure that ANY University of Tennessee Big Orange fan would LOVE that jacket! Not me… no way it would fit… but some tiny Vols fan would wear it out 🙂
Beth,
Reading this while nursing head congestion! Thanks for the humor!
Do you suppose for a moment that in Heaven we will be robed in orange??? I loved wearing orange years back and it looked good with my auburn hair but alas those days are past! I have a total aversion to it now after that littel dramatic run in with the law that had me robed in an orange jump suit for 24 hrs but that is for another time!!!It is not humor filled either!!!
Yes we all have the skeleton in the closet wardrobe but I can tell you having afew years on you that as you glide over the 60+ decade you clean the closets much faster becuz nothing fits any more!!
I do, however, have a black jumpsuit I wore 20 yrs ago (You know the kind where you must become naked when you visit the rest room) It had a bright green shorter cut jacket and I looked stunning in it!!!!Now, even IF and I do mean IF I ever slimmed down to that size again I would soooo date myself!!!
Actually I thought most of those clothes you threw out were pretty fashionable but what do I know living up here on the northern plains where I buy my fashion at the nearest Tractor Supply Store!! HA! I am joking! I say this just incase there are some fans from the Dakota’s reading this!!! We do have afew trendy department stores up here!!! It is getting more so as oil moves north and no self respecting oil tycoon wants to be seen wearing TSC fashion!!!
Have a super day!
Love ya to pieces!
Betty
PS We ranch up here and none of us ever owned a pair of trendy cowboy boots like those! Care to send them this way? I can squeeze into a 7 1/2 on a colder day!!!!
Awesome. We hold a BS in our home on SU eves for college age folks. After din I get the girls and facilitate a Beth Moore study (on our 8th in a row), while my wonderful hubby takes the guys and they do a John Piper study (4 years running). EVERY week, we get to address your style and your hair (the size of the poof, the brightness vs. mutedness – if you could put a 30 sec pause and just stand (and perhaps twirl a few times) at the beginning of the session it would be helpful for our shopping and appraisal purposes…we get somewhat distracted…hahahahahhahaaaa).
You are well loved sweet sister!
Love, Cindy Evans
I’m late on the comments, but I just had to respond. I don’t know why, but this post has ministered to me in the most pelculiar way. And I can’t decide if it was because I relate to the dogs, boots, country, and Texasease lingo or just the relaxed and down-to-earth comforting hug this post emminates… Thanks for the hug!
This was just so funny and cute!!! Gave me a smile on this rainy North Carolina day!!
I am currently sitting here in front of my computer with a HUGE silly grin on my face. What a wonderfully fun post! When I got to the picture of the boots I squealed, (out loud–good thing I’m alone) “I’ve got those same boots!” The muck boots of course, not the lovely Lucchese’s. 🙂 Sigh
Anyway, I recognized most of those jackets and was totally tickled with the orange pumpkin–oops, I mean Jacket. I couldn’t help but wonder if in a moment of weakness you bought it to go hunting with your man. 🙂 Fashionably hunter safe?
Thank you for the laughter. It was a ray of sunshine!
Blessings Siesta Mama! We so love you!
Anna
Beth, Love it, makes me smile and makes me so glad that someone else can admit to keeping fav’s. I unfortunately have 2 favorite dresses from the 90’s (b.d. before diabetes) that are a few sizes too small, but am 2 sizes smaller now than last year. And of course I have some jackets that I too love and will always have. An one or two that I got rid of and still wish I hadn’t. Thank you so Beth for being a clothes connoisseur.
What a treat. Reading your notes was like taking a quick, fun mental vacation. 🙂 The risk that you take every time you post something is huge and brave. I admire you greatly. Keep being you.
Such a fun post, Beth! I am still laughing. And yes, I read right to the end 🙂
Well Mama Beth
I would like to say that I have always loved every outfit that I had seen you wear. I have only seen you in person a coulple of times back in 1995-1997 at Callaway Gardens at Balancing the demands of Life womens conference. Then it was on your video sessions for your Bible Studies. When I got to the last picture of the orange jacket I was much surprise to see it. Why would you want to punish your self? Why we ever want to punish ourselves. We all do it. Thanks for sharing some of your favorite clothing itmes with us today. Try not to punish yourself too much and I will try to do the same. Love you dearly
Completely devoured the post and realized this IS the perfect time to tell you I often say to myself, or others, when not shopping alone, ” This jacket would look fabulous on Beth! ” notice I don’t even say you’re last name, it’s like we’re girlfriends…because we are in my world. By the way, I had those exact lucchesse boots made for my man for his birthday last year. ( brown with hints of black making them look amazing with many outfits. It was a splurge, worth every penny) Next time you’re in Colorado I’d be beyond happy to introduce you to a few boutiques that only the locals know about, confident you’d not leave without adding to your closet a jacket that you’d love and blog about for years to come! love you and your clothes! Lacy
That orange jacket would be perfect for my sister. My family are alums of Oklahoma State University (the brighter orange) and my sister wears a lot of clothing this color. Don’t throw it out, let me know and I’ll come pick it up!
Loved this post! I can just hear you talking when I read your posts.
I’m not sure why, but I never receive the LPMblog email until the following day around 1 a.m.! However, God knew that I needed THIS BELLY LAUGH TODAY 😀
For me, it’s not jackets b/c I’m undertall and difficult to fit. However, give me the perfect blouse, and, honey, we are friends for life! Just Sunday I wore a simple, pewter colored pullover blouse picked out and purchased for me by my dear MIL Kay who went to be with our Lord in 2007. I think that blouse was bought around 1998, and, come to think of it, I still have the denim jacket she bought me that very same day!
Thanks for a few moments of laughter and memories of love!
Beth,
You have restored my soul this morning! Your post brought a big ol grin to my face! Over the years I have received ongoing ridicule for my purchase of yet another jacket/vest on sale…because I was known as the jacket-nista; yes, I, too keep them forever, (but recently sent some of my favs to goodwill :(~ because I cracked under the pressure…HA! Now that I know there is a siesta out there that shares my enthusiasm for a great jacket at a bargain price, I will forge ahead into the jacket world knowing that I am not alone! Biggest grin!!! Thanks for keeping it real and for bringing a grin!
This blog has put a smile on my face and I will probably think about it everytime I open my closet and look at my jackets. Thanks for being so transparent. Reading your blogs is like a surprise present I get to open.
Beth, this is a post I’ve been waiting for! This is why I love coming to your blog. This is the reason. I think the last beauty/fashion related post was from Melissa. It was about her favorite mascara. I’ve been DYING for a post like this.. DYING. Love your jackets. I need to start wearing mine more. And I need rainboots… right this minute.
Excellent post. Love the pictures.
Miss Bethy, I saw you in St. Louis wearing the Anthro jacket. It was super darling. Awesome post!!!
Beth- I laughed out loud (yep spelled it out)- at the last jacket and why/how you bought it. Very fun and energetic post. Thank you- life has been coming down hard in my home and this was just a perfect lift from the debris. Thank you for taking the time and providing at least me with good woman to woman entertainment! Just in time as I start thinking about donating, reselling, giving spring summer clothes away. You are so dear..I am trying to get to Greensboro to hear you and your crew in April- should know today if that is possible! I wonder which jacket you will wear…large audience, big room…:)
BETH, THIS POST IS TOO FUNNY!!! MADE MY DAY!! JUST SAYING!
I think I have seen everyone of these at taping except for the orange wet suit. I had to take a minute from laughing so hard. I really thought it was a wet suit. Please quit the punishment, someone is going to goodwill looking for a costume that you could be providing. Love you
I really, really needed a light moment this morning. Thank you.
Oh man – that was an hysterical post. I must admit, I always wonder where you buy your cute clothes. Thank you for being REAL and showing us some fashion love this morning!
Loved the “so/sew” phrase~ “So” is one of those Minnesota words that we start sentences with too …
e.g. “So …. I was pulling out of my driveway this morning when my guardian angel was about flipped off her wings … Just about hit that car!” (true story from today!)
You get what I mean, since you did live in Wisconsin for a very short part of your life.
Also, I love how you describe the receiving of lavish gifts and distinguishing that “the gift of boots in Texas” is something not to be trifled with.
Thanks for blessing us with a glimpse of your closet~
YOU crack me up!!! And I do love you so much. Thanks for sharing yourself — all the different sides of yourself — with all of us Siestas. In Heaven we’ll all be together and laughing out loud and loving each other face-to-face. Until then… it’s blogs and pics and laughs and smiles in cyberspace:) “A cheerful heart is good medicine…” Prov. 17:22
I have done 2 of your studies (Esther, and James) and one of the things that I looked forward to was seeing what outfit would be styled by you.
it’s been so long since my last comment you probably thought I had dropped off the planet. Ha! (And of all things… clothing brought me back into comment-land. I think that speaks volumes for my personality.) I adore this whole post. All of it. One of my favorite things (I mean besides anticipating what God has inspired for you to say of course, -let’s be clear on that, as my first priority) when ever I am about to see you in a video study or at a Living Proof conference… is what you have chosen to wear. My friends tell me I am nut. But I have literally bounced up and down in my seat in anticipation of this… so thank you for this delightfully unimportant post!! I loved it to bits. 🙂
It’s not in the 5+ Club year, but I am currently wearing black pants that are P.E.R.F.E.C.T. They aren’t too tight or too lose. I don’t have to wear special undies to make sure a line doesn’t appear. They are the perfect length too – no dragging on the floor!
Except the seams love to come undone! 4 time I have had to mend them. I have been so determined to keep these that I taught myself to sew to keep them. The most recent fix came when I wore them to work and noticed that the seam on my hip had come out and my forest green undergarments were showing :-/ Thankfully the Good Lord ordained that I wore a longer shirt that day so no one got a show!
I will continue to fix these beloved pants until they are well beyond the faded gray that is the fate of most black pants! Then I shall mourn … these are truely one of a kind 🙂
Beth, I don’t know if you will see this, but maybe it will help someone who is in ministry. I read the post before this one and it was if God was speaking to me at just the right time, because I was really dealing with something someone said and left me feeling so broken, because it came at a time when I felt God was working and the words left me thinking “this is not good enough”.
But, with all that said, I read these words…
My Darling Little Sister, thank you for your tender heart toward me. I am moved by it. Yes, God so faithfully has our backs. Things like that are painful – sometimes very painful – but I often think that God uses it to keep us from being addicted to people and their approval.
And for every mean thing one person says, I’ll hear something so loving from a dear sister just like today. May Christ cover you always with such love.
~For those precious words “Thank you” and you can wear any jacket and pair of boots…you look cute in anything you wear…clothed in Jesus!
I needed to laugh until I cried….thanks Beth!
Loved every minute of it, so fun! Thank you for making me smile this morning. Love you sweet lady.
Thank you for this fun post!!! It made me smile and feel a joy of hearing from a friend about the ordinary. I too have watched your videos and LOVED your teaching. But a favorite extra was seeing what you wore. You are blessed in so many ways and one is having a great body size so that you can wear whatever you want… even the bright orange jacket. Sign that jacket and donate to your favorite cause for a fund raiser.. IT will bring in “tons” of cash. I just sayin’.
Beth,
You are a riot. Love your studies and your humor. Thanks for sharing your fashion with us today as well. It’s nice to know that you are down to earth and have 5+ favorites as many of us do.
Currently going through the James-Mercy Triumps study. God bless ya Sista!
Oh, Beth! You are priceless! SO funny and so real..you are beautiful on the outside and the inside, girl!
Absolutely perfect blog to read today!!! Imagine my grinning from ear to ear and chuckling at your insane topic choice. Love it all. Thanks for sharing the good, bad and ugly with us today! I think you have inspired me (well almost inspired me) to clean out my closet and pass on some treasures to others. My husband has told me repeatedly that if I have clothes in my closet which I haven’t worn in over a year, then I have someone else’s clothes in my closet. Hope your day is as gorgeous inside as it is outside right now. (Tuesday morning around 11:24AM here in East Texas). Love you!
Miss Beth — I read until the end because I was giggling so uncontrollably my husband came from the back of the house to see what was going on in my home office…you have such a gift! Thank you for making this Tuesday so much more “FUNNER”!! <3
Great post, laughed the whole time! Just what I needed to take a break from my own brain today.
I really needed a good laugh today and your post did it. My closet really needs cleaning out, now when I do get around to it I will sort it according to age. Thanks Beth for the laugh,
the orange jacket. Kathy
Absolutely hilarious! You truly have made my day – you are SO REAL. NEVER the “so spiritual” that I would be afraid to meet you face-to-face. Girlfriend, I would like to take you out and buy your next jacket if I could! But, clearly, that is Melissa’s job!
Remember the red jacket well from silmulcast I went to live in Louisville! Love you and your passion so much!!! Been along for the ride since1998.
Love it, Beth! You are always the snappy dresser. It’s good to know that I am not the only one still relying on clothes from the past. As a 61 year old, I’m always a little concerned that I will lose my ability to judge when it’s time to stop wearing some of my things and get rid of them. So I trust that my daughter, Emily, will let me know, as I’m sure your daughters will for you. But my guess is that you will always be an up-to-date fashionista!