There is no woman who is in despair while wearing a flashy shirt.

"If I don't buy this, who will?"

That is one of the criteria I use when buying clothes.
I especially love flashy patterned shirts, and when I see one, I don't think twice—I just head to the register and say, "I'll take it."
The thumbnail is just a tiny fraction of my wardrobe.
I don't know how to put it... it's just alluring, isn't it? Flashy clothes.

I especially love animal prints.
All-over patterns are nice, but I also love a dress with one big, bold print right on the front.
And I mean the animal itself, not just its pattern. I do own a leopard-print skirt, but I prefer and often wear a jacket with an actual leopard print on it.
Maybe I was the king of beasts in a past life... I love all animals, and I have this habit of wanting to chase and hunt them down even if it's a bit of a stretch...

I'll be 38 in April. I personally think age is just a number, but I am aware that I'm no longer at an age where people call me young, and in fact, I've reached an age where I need to live my life so as not to be a burden to younger people.
I almost rolled my eyes when Osamu Suzuki posted about "soft old-person toxicity" on X last month.
That's bad, isn't it? I'm already an old-person-toxic individual too.

When I was in high school or college, I remember there being a strong, unspoken consensus shared by the Japanese public, like, "Isn't it embarrassing to wear that at this age?"
It was as if what you wore was somewhat determined by your age.
When my mother turned 38, I was in high school, and she would often drag me along to help her pick out clothes, complaining, "There are no clothes that fit a middle-aged woman like me. The misses' section is for old ladies, so what am I supposed to wear?"

Now that I am 38, I don't think there is a feeling like, "I'm a middle-aged woman, so I should wear these clothes."
If there were, I wouldn't be wearing a leopard-print jacket, a dress with a giant giraffe print, or a sushi-print skirt.
I think the feeling that you can't wear certain clothes because of your age is fading, and that's not just me—it's a phenomenon happening all over Japan.
It's become easier to live.

I want all of humanity to wear what they like, when they like. As long as you cover the important parts, you won't be bothering anyone. You can even throw away all your suits and uniforms.
I want you to show me strange clothes, eccentric clothes, flashy clothes, and more interesting clothes.
People say you shouldn't judge by appearance, but there is no indicator as easy to understand as clothing.
There is no fashionable girl who isn't interested in style.
There is no girly girl who doesn't like cute things.
There is no mannish girl who doesn't want to look cool.

There is no woman who is in despair with her life while wearing a flashy shirt.

Flashy clothes are full of energy just by themselves. Wearing this flashy energy means that you are being supplied with that much energy.
Conversely, when I was in despair, I didn't have the luxury to wear flashy clothes.
During my fertility treatment, I wore such plain clothes that I really looked like a stranger. I felt an unnecessary sense of inferiority about "working in a job related to children while having no children of my own," so I think I chose clothes that would help me blend into the world.
Also, I might have considered the standard of "clothes that my child wouldn't be embarrassed by even after I became a mother."
It wasn't fun to buy new clothes at all, though.

If it's a restraint that benefits no one, it won't bother anyone if you stop doing it.


Thank you for reading until the end.

I'm participating. Day 10. Wow, I'm still running without running out of ideas. It's nothing but fun.