Find Me In My Own Head

Look at me a second. No one is ever gonna hurt you like that again. Everything’s going to be all right, trust me. Cause I love you, and I’m not gonna let anything like that happen to you again.

L I Q U I D S 

She was still in the habit of labeling anyone roughly her age as boys and girls, and the language made her inclined towards softness, which was dangerous. Certainly, no one would show Kyoshi grace because she was only nearing eighteen. The Avatar did not have the luxury of being a child. - Avatar The Last Airbender: The Shadow of Kyoshi by F.C. Yee

If the fashion industry thrives on newness and novelty then they are failing themselves.

If you want a ‘new twist on a classic style’ I’ve got one for you.

Make a pencil skirt for someone who is 5ft 3.

Make a white shirt that will button over my breasts.

Make a shift dress that doesn’t get ‘nipped in at the waist’.

Make a pair of shoes that won’t aggravate my ankle injury.

Make a ‘nude-coloured’ dress that is dark brown.

Make your plus-sized jeans in actual denim, not some shitty stretch fabric dyed blue.

You want a fresh take on the classics?

Try making your clothes for someone who isn’t six foot tall and a size 6.

For once.

Make sensitive skin-friendly buttons and clasps so we don’t have worry about the metal making us break out in contact dermatitis (that’s a localized rash that can easily become an infection, for the uninformed).

Make a long dress that is easy to go to the bathroom in.

Make a pair of jeans that actually fit in the crotch area instead of putting us at risk of a yeast infection (No “V”).

Make more dress shoes that aren’t heels.

Put more pockets in women’s clothes.

This reminds me of one of the first times my husband went clothes shopping with me. I gathered up my usual armful to take into the dressing room and he eyed me with astonishment and said, “Are you going to buy all that?” Now he wasn’t complaining, mind you, he was just surpised.

I gave him the hairy eyeball and said, “I’ll be lucky if even one of these fits right and looks good. I can’t just pick a shirt or a pair of jeans off a rack and buy them because I know they’ll fit. Like you can.”

I still remember the quiet “Oh,” that came out of his mouth.

Give us real flannel, not cotton knock-offs

- make clothes that last for longer than a single season before they wear out

- make clothes without using sweatshops, child labour, underpaying and mistreating workers at ANY stage of clothing cycle

- make clothes using ecologically produced fabrics, and reduce the environmental impact of the clothing industry across the board

- make quality clothing accessible and affordable for all

- end the fast fashion industry