During the beginning of 2020, you know the good part of it, I found myself starting to enjoy the clothing of many different colors. While growing up I always preferred to dress in different variations of black and grays, just because you know what they say, āBlack is very slimmingā and a secondary color that I felt went along with the slimming aspect was gray. Going down the line, I couldnāt exactly find my signature color; like how some people love the color red or blue or even brown. Oh, how I hate the color brown. But as time went by, I found myself thrifting for the first time with a few sorority sisters of mine and finding the most beautiful shirt that any person can ever want. The tie-dye shirt. Itās literally the perfect tie-dye shirt that you think of when you think tie-dye; the perfect blend of neon yellow, green, blue, and pink, all blending together to the perfect swirl in the front and back. Itās an obvious factory-made tie-dye shirt but it was everything my mixed emotions butt wanted and even if I didnāt want it my sorority sisters were not going to let me leave without it. To sum it all up, it had to be mine, it was already mine even the workers said itāll be a great complement to my summer tan. Letās just hope itāll match my winter pale.
About a month later my neighbor gave me first pick on her bag of leftovers, leftover clothing to be exact. She has always done this since she moved in about 5 years ago, before donating her clothes to our local thrift stores and shelters sheād let my family go through and help ourselves to whatever we thought were perfect for us. Usually Iād find nothing for me, only for my sisters or my mom, but on that specific day I found the greatest baggy shirt Iāve seen in the 19 years of me living. A tie-dye shirt with beautiful blends of blue and purple. Although it had āBear Claw Cabinā with a big black shadow of a bear on the back I still needed it to feel stylish while I slept at night. I also have the biggest thing for baggy shirts for some odd reason, I guess itās a comfort thing you know. So, with this shirt I needed it just as much as I needed the first tie-dye I bought at Goodwill. And it was free so of course I wasnāt going to let this opportunity slip through my fingers. I definitely need to make my own tie-dye shirt before 2020 ends just so I can have a shirt for every emotion I feel as the days go by. Maybe some green and yellow for courageous, some red and blue for prideful, and black with gray so I can keep a piece of my old self but also to represent those sad moments in my life. I simply cannot wait to get my shirt drawer to look like Picasso just decided to sit in it for a moment then leave me with an endless supply of outfits galore.
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