Reading the Updo 2

Last time I was stepmother-of-the-bride and that warranted a certain kind of updo. This time I was 'just a friend'-of-the-bride and more completely casual altogether...but I still needed some kind of updo. And two updos in an 8-month period? Does this signal a change in me? Can I be read differently or do I read myself differently. Do I enable the updo in ways that I was unable to before? Am I addicted to the do? Two possibilities come to mind: that D&G are responsible in some way for the change (I give them a lot of credit - ATP is the best self-help book I've ever read) or it may be that I am 'becoming' middle-aged (which also gestures to D&G).

About thirty years ago, I went to the opera with my mother. She was in her middle age then. She liked sweater sets and pencil skirts. Fairly recently, she told me that she almost died when I showed up that day for the opera wearing demin overalls and sandles. I thought it was all about the music. I thought I was just there to sit and listen. I had no idea that it was quite a bit about promenading at intermission...

Preparing for a wedding is to some extent a matter of prereading or predicting what will be suitable. I wore orange to a winter wedding. Almost all of the other women wore navy or black. No one seemed to mind my 'look' but I did stick out visually. I can see it now in the photos! This time, to a summer wedding, I wore a blue and black dress. I had nice jewellery. I seemed to fit right in. I can't completely figure it out.

But up with the updo. I'm ready.