A-Tasket

How excited am I to start this blog?

This excited.

Because when I open my closet door every morning, I feel like this:

Which is a great way to feel. I love my dresses, je les aime d'amour. I worry about what would happen if my apartment caught on fire. The cat, after all, can take care of herself.

So I wanted to share my bounty with the world, and also maybe get the world's opinion on a few things. Because even though I love my dresses d'amour, there are a few individual pieces that are perhaps not pulling their weight. My closet is literally bursting at the seams, and I am considering a "one in, one out" policy, but it's harder than it sounds. So you'll help, yes?

A-Tasket features a bright baskety-looking (technical term) pattern, which gets more complex the more you look at it.

For instance, it's not quite a basket weave, is it? I just noticed, just this instant, that the colored stripes don't line up from square to square. And I also never noticed just how yonic that design on the bodice is. You probably already have. Note the tiny signature, which is a touch I just love. These designs are art! We should know who the artist is!

The one flaw of A-Tasket is that I have to wear it backwards because I accidentally got some grease all over the front, which is really a flaw of my own personality; when will I learn that wearing pretty dresses and picking up huge dirty pots don't mix? Dry cleaners are powerless in the face of it, but fortunately A-Tasket is cut exactly the same way in the back.

How long will I hold on to A-Tasket? Probably forever: it's loose enough to be cool in hot weather, and small enough that I will never resent packing it for the next move. Thoughts?

And thanks to Claire Loeb for taking all the pictures in this post!