I am in the mist of watching twenty-five hours of spring fashions on QVC. For you not familiar with this way of shopping and like to drop names, they have Bob Mackey , designer of clothes for Cher, Carol Burnett, and lots of the younger girls. He is just one of many. Three of my favorites are Marc Bower, Bradley Bayou, and the wizard of coats Dennis Basso.
But oh my goodness what the heck are they thinking with the trend of spring is leggings? Legging? Don’t they know that the average size woman is a size 14/16? Besides that we are older and that means we are finding our figures to be shifting with the sand at the bottom! We are supposed to wear leggings?
I love fashion and I am often stopped and complimented on my dress. So I feel left out with these new trends. To top that off they are touting the tunic. Well being five foot nothing this new length top will look like a top that is way too long or a dress that is way too short.
They keep saying we all can wear leggings and the tunic top. I am not a sheep feeding from the fashion trough. There are just some fads we have to let pass us by. I guess I will try to reinvent last year’s clothes with some of the bright new fashion jewelry.
Just say NO to leggings if you know your figure runneth over!
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Today as I was thinking of what to post, I thought I would add in some antidotes about my travels to becoming a confident woman of style and fashion.
One true story happened on Christmas around the time I was six or seven. Living in the mountains of North Carolina, the weather is often so cold that Christmas was the time of year for a new coat. Well this time I got what my little heart perceived as the most beautiful coat in the whole world. It was chocolate brown with a striped brown and white scarf. The hood was lined in fur. As I left out for Sunday school, I admired myself in every window I passed. After church I went to put on my coat and lo and behold I had gained weight. Yes I knew that concept as I had been put on my first diet at five years old.
The walk home was so slow and hard as I cried all the way home. My poor mother could not get me to tell her what was wrong. I could not eat a bite. I just sat quietly with tears running down my face. Then there was a knock at our door. Standing there was one of my schoolmates dressed in an all too familiar coat that was at least two sizes too big for her. As our six year old brains processed what had happened, we both started to giggle. Now my tears were for joy of having MY coat back. I didn’t even care that she had one like me. My feet could hardly keep from doing the holy roller happy dance.
As a fat person, yes I said it. I am fat. But does this define me as a person? NO! I can be a good person or the biggest jackass around. Size has nothing to do with my character.
I came across a recent picture of Janet Jackson who just months ago was very slim. She now looks like she has gained all the weight she worked so hard to lose. But in this picture, she looks like she has even added more pounds. Am I going to bash her for her weight gain? NO! Does being fat lessen her talent! NO! It would, I suspect, limit her dancing and wearng tight jeans. I just want to point out what our culture puts people through if they are fat, ESPECIALLY if you are a woman!
Many people in and out of the lime light have fought the battle of the bugle and lost. Oprah Winfrey to be sure. This woman, who has money to buy everything needed to win the fight, has failed. So there must be more to this formidable foe than just wanting to win. Yet she and others are the butt of fat jokes on a regular basis. How hard it is to be a young girl in this society and mirrored to people like the Olsen twins and Nicole Richie and told this is what beauty is supposed to be.
Well this nonsense needs to stop! Everyone can’t binge and purge to stay a waif. We need to be judged by our character and not our waist size. Yo-yo dieting is unhealthy and can be just as dangerous as being to fat. So when Janet goes on her next diet, and I know she will, I hope she will do it the smart, healthy way and become a spokesperson for young girls everywhere.
Janet Jackson leaving a London eatery