Frocktober 2023 - Part 1

You knew it was coming is! The first Frocktober post of 2023.

As regular readers know, every October I go wild with the wearing of dresses in order to raise money for the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation as part of their Frocktober campaign. Each year my wife, daughter and I set up a fundraising team called IT HAS POCKETS and demand money with sartorial menaces from people of social media.

And observe! There's a link in that previous bit.

The hardcore Frocktober participants will wear a different outfit on each of the 31 days of October. Some even do themed challenges. If you're on Instagram or Twitter you can follow the hashtags #Frocktober2023 or simply #Frocktober and see what they're up to, although the latter site is mostly full of hideous people these days so beware. My goals are more modest. Wearing a frock every day for 31 days isn't really viable for me (I simply don't have the energy, even if I do have the frocks), so once again I have set myself the challenge of at least ten frocks during the course of the month. In my previous four years of direct fund-raising I have managed over $3000 and worn over 50 different frocks. This year I will be attempting to wear frocks that I haven't worn in the previous five years. As I said before, I have a lot of them.

So on with the frocks. Frock One had sleeves, which is not something I do a lot of. I wore it for lunch with family up in Sydney ...

... followed by a trip to MOAB in the afternoon.

I returned to a more usual style for me with Frock Two, which was just for a day at work.

The weather had cooled down on that day, so I had to resort to a cardigan.

This swishy gingham number was Frock Three.

I wore it for a trip with Catherine up to Bowral to see the beginnings of the new botanical garden there, as well as some shopping at our favourite bric-a-brac emporium there - Dirty Jane's

And Frock Four brings us up to date (so far). Again it was something simple for work and a short shopping trip at lunchtime.

Thank you to everyone who has donated so far!

That link again: IT HAS POCKETS!