Burnt Sierra Fancy Socks

I have an issue with matching. I really struggle with it. In fact...I am almost anti it. I tend to feel like a bit of a tool if I match...not that I have anything against other people who match. I just personally cannot fathom matching say...my shirt to my belt, shoes, purse and lipstick (especially because i don't own 2 of those 4 items). I couldn't even if I wanted to, because I just don't pay that much attention during my once a year shopping spree. Now this doesn't mean I go out of my way to "unmatch". I don't wear black &white polka dot slacks with techni-colored plaid shirts or anything.

The fact of the matter is that I haven't always been anti-matching. My outfit didn't necessarily match itsself...but it would match...(please don't judge me for this) my friends. In fact we even went as far as to attempt "matching mondays".

Examples: 7 of us (yes SEVEN) would all wear overalls (and yes we all had the same pair from the Gap) with a white t-shirt underneath. Now that one isn't too bad...it could be played off as a very horrible coincidence...but it gets worse...

Another "Monday Outfit" we had planned was to all wear sarongs (yes those brightly colored tapestrys your wrap around like a skirt) with wife beaters...as if the brightly colored sarongs weren't enough...we decided "why not make our own t shirts???" So we went to the craft store, bought fabric pens and puffy paint, white t shirts and promptly made sets of matching tshirts with all sorts of dorky inside jokes written on them.

this continued thru out my high school career, the whole time believing it was cool. Sadly, it wasn't until the other day when I was explaining "matching mondays" to JFC, that I realized just how big of a dork I (and all of my friends...they're coming down with me) are.

Now it gets a little worse...this didn't stop in high school. Oh no...it continued well into "college years". I distinctly remember having the same pair of DKNY jeans, Puma hoodie, and steve madden red slip on shoes as 3 of my other friends. And just last year I was bringing my friend some more comfortable clothes to wear (she had gone out partying and stayed at someone else's house and I didn't think she would want to stay in her party clothes) and it wasn't until she put on the outfit that I realized it exactly matched the outfit I had on. I am not saying "similar"...i mean exactly...moosejaw hoodie, gaucho pants, knit boots...the whole nine yards. Every once in a while I even realize that me and JFC match...

*sigh* so maybe i don't wear matching outfits in an attempt to counteract my overwhelming tendency to match those close to me. Or maybe I just wear such great outfits that everyone else copies me???

Either way...it seems I am a bit of a dork. Love me or leave me...and ifyou love me...feel free to match me, cause its the cool thing to do. And those socks?? yes those are JFC's new fancy socks I made for him. There is also a cable running up the back of the sock and some fancy shaping...but my camera died before I had a chance to take a picture. And those burnt sierra colored toes? I was short a little bit of yarn...and yeah...the whole matching thing just doen'st come easily to me. But it looks alright. Right?