An 80s one for sure

I got this dress in Levin or Taranaki, I think it was Levin. It was cheap and it was summer and I needed a new dress for where ever we were going. It's that stretchy cotton lycra fabric and great to just pull on and go, especially over togs as it dries real quick.

Half way to work this morning I realised I hadn't taken the dress photo so we stopped and shot these. This one below is the quick take of the cardigan on one side so they can see the dress pose. I'm getting dress picking, wearing, writing about it fatigue. My days are getting fuller and I'm sure the stories aren't nearly as good as when I started.

The pattern on this fabric reminds me of my Nana's bathroom. She had the best silver wallpaper and always had red towels in the bathroom. It was so cool!

I wore this dress two Christmas days ago, the last Christmas I was home in Dunedin. 

Christmas is very important to me, it is about family and gathering to share food and time with each other without any other distractions. As I've gotten older I have become more aware of the politics of the day, the politics of family. My friends used to gather together at the end of the day to be with each other after spending the day with their own families. I never really liked it, I just wanted to hold on to the day with my family for as long as I could, knowing that perhaps it would never be the same again.

This Christmas I wanted to be with my friends; my friends are my family.

We were together on Christmas Day 2011 as the sun set. We took these pictures goofing around and now one of them sits right in front of me every day at work. The moment where we sat together looking out of the ocean was probably one of the best moments of my life, the feeling of being so warm that I could have bare legs and arms, the colour in the sky as the sun set over the water, the feeling of being weightless surrounded by people that love you, no matter what. Hope my friends don't mind me posting these, too bad if they do.