My Mom and I designed our clothes and we both sat up straight and listened to anyone who taught good taste in simple elegant fashion and color. I remember almost every program ended with, “Accessorize! Accessorize! Accessorize!
We listened then broke all the rules, creating “things” to wear that were anything but simple and elegant and the colors we experimented with were not born to live together! Then we accessorized and we had lots of fun.
I’ve been present when men roll their eyes and puff up like they’re superior to their wives, daughters, and sisters because women put such great interest in collecting and rotating things to wear. BUT just mention any branch of the armed forces or the word, “hunting” and their eyes glaze over. A great part of these activities’ appeal are THE CLOTHES, not to mention, THE ACCESSORIES!
With this in mind I’ll tell you about Brian and Bart, two friends of mine, and one of their relatives who all went hunting for wild turkeys. They were heavily decked out and fully accessorized with many things including  shot guns and bows and arrows. They traveled hours to the relative’s mother’s home but when they got there Bart and Brian saw that she lived on two acres of a perfectly manicured lawn!
“What are we suppose to do now?” Brian and Bart asked. They were shown into the house where they nestled down into easy chairs facing a window where they waited and watched for turkeys!
I propose, in this case, that if women dressed up in silk dresses, matching heals and handbag AND accessorized AND carried weapons too, then plop themselves down in easy chairs, with their designer handbags at their feet, to wait for turkeys, that they would not have looked any stranger than my hunter friends. I would consider both groups DRESSED FOR SUCCESS!

My interest in clothing influenced the book I’m working on, ‘Superman and the Bad Mermaid Queen’. The plot involves a very odd coat. Amazon.com.  nancymauerman.com