Dress -- Dressing and the daily schedule

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Dress - Dressing and the daily schedule:

Each week (most anyway) between now and DLV will have something along
the subject of dress. This week we'll discuss dress, timing, and the
schedule.

One frequently reported problem is people missing activities because
they get into a time crunch, often times having to do with getting
made up and getting ready.

Hopefully this will help alleviate some of these issues.

Dressing for an entire day, or for several days in a row, can be a bit
overwhelming for those who are just used to dressing for an occasional
group meeting or evening out every so often. However, with some planning
and a few tricks, it can be quite do-able.

Again, this is presented with emphasis toward those who are new(er) to
public exposure.

Let's look at a hypothetical daily schedule. We won't use any day in
particular, but use an example that has activities typical of what you
might see at DLV, with example daytime and evening activities.

10:45am Side trip
11:00am Shopping tour
1:00pm Lunch With Ginger
2:00pm Walk Off Your Lunch
6:00pm Happy Hour
7:00pm Nice Dinner
9:00pm Big Show

You will find that you can't do everything. You'll have to pick and
choose according to your personal likes and dislikes and any limits
you have on such things as cash or energy.

The first items on our imaginary day at DLV are a choice between a
side trip or shopping.

If you want to go on either of these, you should plan to rise no later
than about 8:00am or so, earlier if you want to have breakfast before
you go or if you need additional time.

If you're not very experienced with routine skin/hair care and makeup,
you'll find that you will need about (at least) 2 hours from a cold
start to be ready for action. (Some who are quite experienced also cite
the 2-hour timeframe.) Also if you aren't staying near the rendezvous
point for these outings, plan on maybe 15-30 minutes or so of get-there
time.

Also be sure to allow time to correct mistakes with eye makeup, hair,
etc.

Timesaving hint: If you're one who does your nails daily, do your nail
polish last. It's natural to do this early in the process, but if it's
not fully dry, it can get messed up very easily, turning a time-crunch
into a major disaster!

No, pantyhose and almost-dry nail polish do not mix! :(

Your outfit for shopping or a side trip must be casual. A mainstream
venue means mainstream dress and mainstream behavior. You will also need
comfortable shoes. There's a bit of walking involved with both of these.

If you look at the women who shop in malls on a typical spring weekday,
or visit the tourist attractions on a weekday morning, you will find
that the outfits very often include such things as the shorts and tank
top combo or jeans and t-shirt, quite often times with some type of
athletic style shoes.

Now if you're the "Dammit, I didn't come all the way to Las Vegas to
wear jeans!" type, you will also see casual separates and coordinates,
those that are stylish and feminine, but not too dressy. Something like
this would be an option for you.

We've discussed casual looks in a previous item in this series.
. . .

1:00pm Lunch With Ginger

You'll have quite a bit of latitude in your outfit for the daily Lunch
With Ginger. Almost any tasteful outfit from extremely casual to a
moderately dressy daytime look will be fine. If Lunch With Ginger will
be your first activity of the day, plan on rising no later than 11:00am,
earlier if you need travel time. Being fashionably late for Lunch With
Ginger is fine, but if you push it, you may find that the party is
breaking up just as you are arriving. :)

You will find some who attend Lunch With Ginger (and subsequent
Walk-Off) in boymode and then clean up and change after. If you're
pressed for time or a bit shy of the buffet crowd, this will be fine.

2:00pm Walk Off Your Lunch (TBD)

This needs to be casual, but it doesn't have to be dowdy or frumpy. See
notes above regarding stylish casual separates/coordinates. Heels are
NOT recommended for this activity. Skip the heavy hardware too. :)
And no, nobody's gonna look down on you if you show up in boymode. :)
. . .

Day into evening:

Some of our attendees wear the same outfit from day into evening, and
some prefer to change. That's really a personal choice.

Here's one very important point, and this is a trap that many of those
who are new fall into.

You may think that your only option for the evening is to take a 2+ hour
break, wash off your face, shave, start from point zero again and do all
of your makeup over. Yes, quite a few DLV'ers do a complete change and
re-do every afternoon.

Here's a comment received in feedback a few years ago regarding time
crunches and missed activities:

+>Here's what I think the problem is. It takes me three hours from bare
+>metal till I'm ready to go out. End of the afternoon comes and I start
+>looking real scruffy, so I have to take it all down to bare metal
+>again and that takes another three hours.

This can be very rough on the skin, and is time consuming and often
times is unnecessary, even though you may be one with moderate to heavy
facial hair.

If you use a gentle electric razor (one with a "foil" head is great for
this) and a light touch, you can easily get rid of that "shadow" without
damaging the foundation. Touch up face, eyes, lips, hair as needed. With
a little practice you can overlay an evening look on a daytime look in
no time. This cuts your day into evening change time from 2-3 hours to
1/2 hour or so.

6:00pm Happy Hour
7:00pm Nice Dinner
9:00pm Big Show

Happy Hour, Dinner, Big Show. What you wear for the evening will most
likely be determined by how many of these and which of these you would
like to do. There really won't be any time to change between these.

About anything from casual to dressy, even a long dress if you feel like
it, is fine for all of these. If you don't want to change, your daytime
outfit will most likely be fine. If you want to dress up a bit more,
that will be fine too.

When you plan your outfit for these evening activities, also consider
what you may be doing AFTER your last DLV activity, such as gaming,
clubbing, early breakfast, etc., when planning your outfit.

When you retire for the evening:

Although it may be very late and you may be very tired and not very
lucid, take the time to properly remove your makeup and do a bit of skin
care. This is particularly important if you're not used to making up
each day. Clean your face with a mild face soap or cleanser. Be sure to
get it all off. You will want to then use a moisturizing lotion even if
you don't think you need it. You will thank yourself in the morning. Las
Vegas tends to be very dry, and even skin that's naturally oily can get
dry and sore.


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