The idea of having a grown-up security blanket made me think about other fashion security blankets we all carry around with us. For me it's the belt. I'm crazy about the idea because it allows me to wear a belt without anyone knowing I'm wearing a belt. What? It definitely has the practical application of holding your pants in place without throwing off your silhouette, but still, do I really need to wear a belt every single day? When I think about it, I really don't. I do have some pants that hold themselves up really nicely. I also like to wear long tops, which cover up any potential plumber's crack and therefore eliminate the necessity of wearing a practical, industrial, outfit ruining belt.
And that's when I realized it: my belt is my fashion security blanket. I just like the feeling of a lovely snug belt, wrapping around my hips, protecting my lower back from the breeze. It's like having a permanent hug attached to me, all day long. It's comforting. It's not serving any purpose; it can't hold up my pants (actually, it even weighs them down a bit) and it's no fashion accessory so really, there's absolutely no reason for me to wear it. And yet I continue, day after day, to wrap the thing around my hips and buckle it as though it were a seatbelt to protect me from the big, scary, car accident that is (at times) my life.
So this is my new resolution: I will try, hard as I can, not to wear a belt unless it is for fashion purposes or is absolutely needed to help me shield the world from the upper regions of my ultra-pale derriere. And, if I find that most of my pants do require this type of utilitarian accessorizing, I either need to buy myself smaller pants or buy an invisibelt.
