What about the kit??

[Aggie_Ama]

Oh to heck with the bike shop. I got my feelings really hurt when the guy at the bike shop told me my helmet had to match my bike. I have a gorgeous blue/white/black bike but I fell in love with a pink Atmos helmet. It only coordinates with a couple of kits, I could give a rat's arse less. Half the time my socks don't coordinate because I in too big of a hurry to find the ones that match. I wear brown sunglasses and cheaper ones too! Oh well. There can be too much snobbery and judgement, just ride and enjoy.

I also have blue Sidi shoes that match nothing, including the blues of my bike, but I love them! They are quirky and hardly anyone has them, that is the stuff I like. I probably look like the biggest fashion disaster in cycling but I have a darn good time in spite of it all.

[shellkay1212]

You guys are SOOOO right!!!!

I got the pink cycling glasses cause I LIKE THEM! I didn't like the white and didn't want black. I'm not even a pink kind of girl but those are the ones I liked!!!

I don't even have kits - so not sure why I even gave a hoot anyway! I'm really a hippy at heart anyway - so that means I can wear all sorts of odd ball stuff - right!?

[SouthernBelle]

I just read this:

http://jacquiephelan.wordpress.com/2...mitigated-gal/

If Jacquie isn't worried, I'm not either.

[bluebug32]

Considering I ride this bike, I don't think I'll be finding clothing to match it unless Kermit the Frog starts a clothing line.

[Kalidurga]

I just read this:

http://jacquiephelan.wordpress.com/2...mitigated-gal/

If Jacquie isn't worried, I'm not either.

Jacquie's one of my heroes. The fact that she recently rode a single speed mtb race in a men's three-piece suit is inspirational. That's a woman who can make up her own mind how to coordinate! (Though everyone else in that race also appears to be somewhat unusually coordinated...)

[Madride]

Yeah you should just wear whatever you want. I wear blue sunglasses that don't match with anything. My bike is orange and I don't have any blue clothes so they really don't match. I used to worry about it, but I decided that I don't care if they match because they are nice glasses and they are comfortable.

[LainiePants]

I also have a pink atmos helmet and it doesn't match anything I own, bikes or clothes. I'm fine with that.

[AliceB.Toeclips]

And ready to share...the sartorial secrets of the stylish old bat!
Go ahead, be 'clothes-minded'...in here, we are all safe.
Check out last year's VERY successful 2008 calendar where I posed in 85% cacao chocolate and little else (see "new calendar" on right margin of my blog at jacquiephelan.com)
Marin photographer Anne Cutler said: "Why not show everyone what you are wearing the OTHER half of the time?"
And "Unmitigated Gal 2009" was born: a full-color calendar that ONLY people who want will be buying, since we were clever and had the company that makes them ship only when an order arrives (thus: no boxes full of beautiful calendars in the home of the model, who is tragically incapable of actually selling her own...er...fabulous calendar.
This is where you (my tribe, after all) come in: word-of-mouth (the first three letters in "WOMBAT". How about looking at the calendar and lodging your very valued opinions?
You can imagine what kind of reception it might get at a print bike magazine (which is a thinly disguised men's lifestyle mag, n'est-ce pas?)

So, here tis: http://www.lulu.com/content/3682015
at least, I hope it is...
Cheers, all...