Dear Fashion Magazine
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Dear Fashion Magazine,
You and I have been friends for a long time, we get together at least once a month, and talk about the latest trends in Women Clothes, and who’s wearing (or not wearing) the best designers. Sometimes we even talk about useful things, like the environmental impact of the clothing industry… But there are just a few things have been bothering me lately, so I thought I should let you know about them.
First –
You have given me a completely unrealistic view of what I should look like. All of the people in your magazine are 6 feet tall and have a completely different build than I was born with. Don’t get me wrong, all of the women you show me are indeed beautiful, but so am I. Where are the girls with hips? With any curves? In the real world, where I am considered healthy, and actually skinny by most of the people that I know, I am a size 6. Your models are a size 0, or maybe a 2. Whatever happened to the Marilyn Monroe’s with curves? Did your designer friends just get tierd of doing the extra work? And then there is the utter perfection of your model’s complection. The last time I checked, everyone was born with pores. Maybe if you stopped air brushing away everyone’s flaws we could all feel a little better about ourselves. And I wouldn’t dream of opening PhotoShop every time I saw a photo of myself.
Second –
Are you aware that most of the clothes you think I should buy aren’t even available more than 100 miles from either coast? Ok…. maybe I could go to Chicago…. but that’s still a 5 hour drive. Of course, even if these amazing clothes you showed me were available at my local mall I can’t afford them. You don’t believe me? What about these gorgeous Prada boots? Yes, I mean the green ones. $2700.00. I don’t make that much in a month, maybe two. Yet, I somehow feel that I wouldn’t mind not eating if I could have shoes that were that amazing. Hmm….. Maybe that’s why all of your model friends look like they do… have you considered that? This has definitely persuaded me to look online at stores and find more reasonably priced clothing that I don’t have to drive miles on end to get, I will definitely be finding out more about fillyflair.com and other clothing sites, that’s for sure.
Third –
You are aware that I married a heterosexual male who will never N-E-V-E-R wear any of the men’s clothes you keep trying to sell me. I’m lucky that Matt has a suit he keeps around for weddings and conventions. And he only has two shirts to wear with it. One is white, the other is light blue… and they are both short sleeve. As much as I know he would look amazing in it, I just don’t think I could convince him to wear a pair of black skinny jeans with a mustard colored pea coat. Wait, does that come in womens? It sounds like something I want to wear. But really outside of the men that wear suits to the office every day, aren’t most of the men you know like my husband, wearing jeans and a t-shirt (that I really hope isn’t full of holes) every day?
Now –
I’m not saying that I don’t still love you, or that I want to stop spending so much time with you. I am just really hoping that if I make an effort to tell you these things, maybe together we can make an effort to work toward providing me with some more realistic goals in the future.
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Love Always,
Andrea
What words of wisdom! I concur!
I’ll think I’ll go look at shoes now…
Shoes are the best form of fashion. Everyone can wear a great pair of shoes.
Not to mention some of the things that go down the runway, look CRAZY. I don’t think it’s something you could even wear out in public. Or if you could, you couldn’t sit down in it. How do they sell it? For Example
I would love to wear this…. maybe to a sci-fi convention, or comic con?
Unless, like me, they have high arches and sensitive feet. Then you can’t wear heels of any description, and boots are a form of martyrdom. When plain black running shoes went out of fashion in favour of canvas sneakers with white soles and absolutely no support for feet or ankles, I was reduced to paying top-dollar for British imported trainers so I didn’ t have to wear orthopedic clunker oxfords all the time (which cost the price of a small chair, meaning you wear them till they wear out and look horrible.)
I certainly understand wearing out shoes because they are expensive. But, I am lucky to live somewhere with a lot of options. That means I can still usually find comfortable shoes on sale.