The laziness that creates fast fashion
The laziness that creates fast fashion
How ‘The Patriot Act’ made me dust off my fashion design skills
“Life is too short to wear boring clothes.”
This is a sign that I had on the walk-in closet of my bedroom. And I lived by it. I’m the child of a woman who has more than 15 closets full of clothes and at least 400 pairs of shoes. She is also a seamstress who lives and breathes fashion and 3- to 4-inch heels (before she sprained her ankle). But I am also the child of a man who tore his silver leather jacket. And his way of “fixing” his jacket was to put silver duct tape on it, and he continued to wear it — in public.
My great great aunt always told me, “You do not have to look how you feel.”
While my father has tremendously upped his fashion game since becoming a deacon and now matches my mother’s fly, I’m somewhere in the middle. I go from “Plant Eater” T-shirts that humble brag about being a vegetarian to bright red top hats and a matching dress, with 3-inch heels. The worse I feel when I wake up, the better I dress. And if I put on makeup, you know I’m in a terrible mood. My great great aunt always told me, “You do not have to look how you feel.” Meanwhile, if you see me in yoga pants and a very worn T-shirt, know that my day is going amazing!
I’m also the type of person that Hasan Minhaj wags a finger at in his latest “The Patriot Act” Netflix episode “The Ugly Truth of Fast Fashion.”