Beauty Tips for Ministers
Because you're in the public eye, and God knows you need to look good.
Transitional Seasons
March 27, 2008 on 11:46 am | In Fighting Frump |Dearest bun-buns,
PeaceBang is taking a moment of quiet to check in with you while the beagle sleeps in the living room and the cat sulks upstairs in her own little room after a little “let’s get to know each other” encounter on the stairs that didn’t go very well. PeaceBang is trying to Breathe Deeply.
Transitional seasons like New England spring are difficult. It’s easy to fall into a Frump Slump and wear the same bundly sweaters and blazers and earth tones, being grateful we can skip the heavy coat and leaving it at that. But let’s not do that. Let’s remember that we have an opportunity to look as though something miraculous just might happen — like Christ rising from the tomb, for example, or the Democratic Party deciding not to act like a bunch of stooges around the Obama-Clinton race. Let’s add bright spots of color to our winter outfits in the form of light scarves or bright shoes or a nice Eastery-hued tie on the guys.
Women, how about baby pink or hot pink paired with brown? Looks fab. Or a wonderful turquoise top or earrings with a denim skirt and white t-shirt? Get out your knee-length springtime skirts and wear them with nubby cardigans, opaque tights and cute flats in a matching color. Carry a bright yellow bag. Get our your white boot cut denim summer trousers and wear them with a black sweater and white faux pashmina wrap with butter-colored boots. Be creative.
Look at the items in your closet with fresh eyes, and get out there and be fresh. In a good way, I mean. Not like a certain beagle puppy I know who hasn’t been neutered yet and who keeps trying to make puppies with all the female visitors to the parsonage.
Naughty Max!
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Thanks to your suggestions about hats, I actually bought myself an Easter outfit for my first (in 20+ years) Easter as a community-based minister worshipping in pews, rather than a participant in the service. Bright, clearance priced, and a silent witness of my joy about Christian faith. Felt great. I’ve been dressing better ever since.
But do we have to put it aside during Ascension?
Comment by Rev Elz — March 27, 2008 #
I get into such a rut with clothing during the winter time. I was feeling so blah, that a trip to the outlet mall actually brightened my day. Previous trips to Banana Republic had never yielded any results, but this time I found a pair of jeans, pants, a skirt, and two shirts that I really like. I didn’t buy much, or spend much ($120), but these new additions made me feel like a whole new woman. #1, they *fit* so I wasn’t depressed getting dressed in the morning; #2, they were really flattering.
Even if shopping isn’t appropriate, unpacking some of the colorful, spring clothing and refreshing the closet might be in order.
Comment by hafidha sofia — March 27, 2008 #
Now I’m with you here. I simply can’t enter the Easter season (except for my beloved grubbing-in-the-garden times) in the same earth tones that I wore all winter. Yep, perhaps I can still wear brown or navy on the bottom (skirt or slacks — and are my favorite gauchos just too, too passe?), but my tops definitely pick up speed, pink, other light colors (white and turquoise), and my jackets take on spring tones. Shoes shift too, as I can, to sockless (not sandals, yet, except on the cruise I’m taking), or neutral hose, rather than dark. I agree that the same old, same old just won’t do for the weeks after Easter, even when there is still a nip in the air (though it was 67 degrees today here in Tennessee!).
Comment by Ann — March 27, 2008 #
I bought I blue, white and black print dress and a very cute pair of black sling backs for Easter. The most elegant woman in my congregation walked in the front door and saw me and said, “Don’t you look nice!”
It was in the high sixties here on Wednesday, today, high was 38. So I can sympathize about the weather!
Comment by revtoots — March 28, 2008 #
I just don’t do bright colors in my business attire. They don’t go with my dark complexion. My ties are all in somber hues- a rich, deep purple is as bright as I get.
Most of my casual clothes are the same way. As days get warmer they don’t get brighter they get briefer.
Comment by Whit — March 30, 2008 #