Why I Don't Wear Leggings....Anymore

I've been reading "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Staging Your House to Sell", and yes, it is riveting.

I expected it to tell me to put the pet dishes away for every showing. What I didn't expect was that I'd run across a fashion question I've wondered about for years - what not to wear, or when to throw it out. Discussing decluttering your home, here's what the book had to say about outdated clothing:

'If you wore the fad the first time - you can't wear it the second. We all want to be young and hip, but in fashion, if you wore something trendy 'back in the day' you are not of an appropriate age to wear it the second time around. It doesn't matter if leggings and a ripped sweatshirt (a la' Flashdance) are destined to come back in style - if you wore it when the style was originally popular, you can't wear it again without looking foolish. Give the leggings away."

So no tube tops for me, or leggings, or stirrup pants, or shirts that tie at the waist after you pass the ties through that little plastic circle, or so many other styles that come to mind. I've been guilty a few times, I've even been called to task by my daughters a few times.

Now, by golly, I've got it - no fashion faux pas for me, hopefully ever again. I hereby promise never to mow the front lawn while wearing a tube top, never, ever again. But seriously, could someone please tell Paula Abdul? I guess she's never had to stage her house, or she'd be tossing half her wardrobe in the Goodwill pile about now.