Going to uni in a small town also meant there was a risk of what I like to call a double take. Whenever the high street stores brought in new stock you could guarantee you would see it a few times that night. Coming to London I thought this would be so unlikely to ever happen! It's so big, with some many different stores and places to shop, it's truly unlucky to double take.
Unfortunately for me, last year I was victim to a double take extravaganza. Wearing a red rose dress from Topshop it didn't cross my mind that I could bump into the same outfit. But I did...eight times over. A funny situation at a day festival where at every turn I saw my outfit. We all seemed to have the same tactic look down and pretend you didn't see it.
Since then I haven't done much shopping, not out of choice but out of shortage of funds. In other words...skint. For the pieces in my wardrobe at the moment it's safe to say they are at least a year old, meaning my worry of encountering someone else in the same dress had become a by-gone. Until I met a few friends for drinks and one of their colleagues was wearing the same outfit as me, a three year old summer dress. Not only have I never seen anyone else wearing it when it was new out, I hardly wear it myself. It just happened to be the last clean thing left!
After laughing about it and deciding on days when each can wear it (joke), it made me think why it really matters. Why do I worry whether I'll be the only one in the room wearing that dress, or top or shoes. Is it because I strive to stand out, be different....unique. Or am I just embarrassed? All I know is that the clashing of dresses can't be a bad thing. All it did was make me realise I had more in common with this woman than I thought. Surely the answer is to stop shopping at Topshop and such places. But we all know that's not going to happen.
