Aspirations of a Hijabi

“우와 ~ 정말 잘생겼어요 <3 - wow ~ so handsome <3″

Vocab time! Let’s talk about clothes in Korean:

옷 - clothes: (not to be confused with 웃다 - to laugh)

바지 - pants

청바지 - jeans

모자 - hat

반바지 - shorts

치마 - skirt

양말 - socks

신발 - shoes

원피스 - dress

운동화 - sneakers 

양복 - suit

안경 - glasses

KONGLISH:

셔츠 - shirt

하이힐 - high heels

티셔츠 - t-shirt

재킷 - jacket

드레스 - dress

파자마 - pajama

브라 - bra

팬티 - underwear

코트 - coat

ADJECTIVE:

섹시 - sexy

멋져 - cool

이상 - weird

SAMPLE SENTENCE:

이것은 내가 가장 좋아하는 셔츠다. - This is my favourite shirt.

당신의 스타일은 “x”입니다. - Your style is “x”.

One of the best pieces of advice I ever heard was “There’s nothing wrong with you”. 

It was a Monday morning and I was relaxing with friends in a hotel pool after playing Lollapalooza. A lady bobbed opposite me sipping a ginormous glass of rose, and we started chatting. She was a stylist and told me that, when her clients tried outfits on and looked at themselves in the mirror, she would tell them “There’s nothing wrong with you”. I asked her why and she said, “because we all think there’s something wrong with us ”. It was such an odd, simple notion, but I felt like a little flower had opened up inside of me. It hadn’t occurred to me that it could be a universal feeling. There was always something so wrong with ME, I hadn’t considered that other people might feel the same. The comment stuck with me like glue for the next year.