This weekend we’re starting sailing classes – which will be the first time I’ve set foot on a sailboat in more than ten years. Unsurprisingly, I’m agonizing a little bit. What if I get seasick? What if I’ve forgotten everything I ever knew? What if I fall into the Hudson and get cholera?
Mostly, though, I’m agonizing about what to wear. Jeans? Great in theory, but they don’t stand up well to getting wet. Black pants? Sure, but the ones I’ve got are professional-looking and rather nice. I’d rather not get them dirty. Khakis? Okay in theory, except that I wore holes in my last pair and had to throw them out. This leaves me with gym pants (smelly!) and skirts (no way!) as my remaining options.
Admittedly this would be less stressful if I weren’t, oh, what’s the polite word … plump? While I’m hardly obese, I worry about how I look. I can’t buy just any old pair of pants and expect to feel good in them. This weekend, I want to be sailing, not self-conscious! I’ll try to get a new pair of khakis today – I need them anyways – but if I can’t find ones I like, I have no idea what I’ll do tomorrow.
Sadly, although the Atlantic Yachting Association has been really helpful in most ways, their site doesn’t feature a “what to wear on your first day of sailing” page. I’m hardly a fashionista, but at this point, anything would help!
