Plain Dress part One

So I've been thinking lately. Yes, it's rare. Feel free to insert a laugh track here, it may even be appropriate.

I've been thinking about plain dress.  Not A plain dress, but Plain Dress. Kinda like what the Amish people get around in.

At the outset, I should point out that I am not in any way religious in a strict sense, and definitely not in any Christian, Judeo-christian, biblical sense at all.

But there is something in me that is drawn towards the simplicity and honesty of a plain, simple daily outfit, a long skirt, a basic shirt, and even the head covering.

I have been wearing large wide fabric headbands to work every day for a while. They serve a dual purpose - stops the headset I have to wear pulling at my hair and getting tangled, and keeps my hair out of my face.  But I feel naked now, if I go out of the house without one. This is a little weird.

I am not a fashionable dresser at all. And I have always loved long skirts, especially in summer. But this is different to that. It's a whole different yearning, almost.

I want to live a simple, uncluttered, old-fashioned life. Yet there are so many things preventing me from doing so. First and foremost, having to work in a complicated, structured, technologically advanced (or limited, depending on your viewpoint!) corporate consumerist business, to pay my mortgage, to feed my children. Having to drive there, having to don the 'corporate' gear, the 'business attire', the outlook to fit and be part of the 'team'.

I am studying in order to get out of that world. I will be demoted, when I leave. I will have a social standing reduction, so to speak. I am studying to learn the skills of a lower-paid, less-valued role. But it's a role where I can do good. (I may be deluding myself. There may be LOADS of red-tape bureaucratic shite that makes it just as bad as where I am now, but paid worse... I won't know until I get there). It's a role that will always be needed, and needed by INDIVIDUALS, actual people, not voices on phones, not companies. People.


When I get there, I will wear a uniform. It won't be a long skirt, but maybe the simplicity of a uniform at work will meet the need I am feeling now?

In the meantime, if you see a slightly crazy-looking hippy lady with a floral head covering and a long skirt walking around, say hi. It's probably me.