I wear a vintage floral shirt dress and talk about migraines

Saturday, July 9, 2022

The time I slipped into a vintage shirt dress from my mom's collection and casually confessed that migraines are a part of my life.

Hey peeps, what's going on there in your world?

It's toasty here tonight. I have snacked on a few balls of traditional Baba Nyonya delicacies called onde onde. OMG They're so addictive when made right. I love the pretty green pandan-infused soft chewy dough exterior and the bursting of FRESH Gula Melaka/palm sugar on the inside. I believe it's excellent for warm summer nights! Thanks to my lovely brother for getting them from all the way down south.

That delicious snacks aside, I'm actually a little under the weather from a nasty little migraine that took over my body like a deranged ghoul. I only felt a tad better after letting it all out orally into the crapper. TMI, I know, I'm sorry but that was the reality of the situation. I did notice the old familiar symptoms before the migraine completely took form. Like how my eyeballs felt assaulted by lights and how sounds became too much in my ear holes. I wonder if any one of you have been visited by migraines.

I have a history of it so it's nothing new but that this year, it has a particular strength to it. Sometimes, I do blame it on my adventurous eating of a combination of food that shouldn't go together. Honestly though, I have no idea. What I will do is jot today's migraine attack down in the calendar. Just to observe patterns. Great news about migraines for me is post-attack, I start to consume bland food again. Keep it delicately subtle on the tastebuds so as not to excite the brain too much. Hahah.

Well, there I went off a tangent again. So....let me rope it all in.

What can I say, by now, it's a known fact that when I say it's another outfit post, it has to come with me blabbering about this and that.

Back to the OOTD: One day as I was looking around the messy corners of the wardrobe, I found myself staring at this old floral shirt dress. It was originally my mom's and she had given it to me a while ago. It took some time for me to warm up to this vintage piece. I think it's only this year that I'm finally feeling the retro color scheme of this gem.

It's got that murky muddy green color mixed with a cool grey floral motif all over it that initially looked unappealing to my younger eyeballs but now that it's 2022, I'm really having a blast channeling that 70s/80s spirit. The shirt dress has a relaxed collar, perky shoulder design, ruffled sleeve cuff and soft pleating across the chest. The shape is flared almost like a baby doll style dress, but not quite.

I wore the dress with a pair of electric blue oxfords and decorated my ear lobes with a popping statement brass hoops. Then, I stood around for a few pictures. And then, my cat, Aiden joined me.

The rest is history.