Afternoon Bloggers,
For those of you, who like me, are unemployed, you know that the most excruciating part of this lifestyle is the boredom. People think sitting at home watching "My Mum Is Actually My Grandfather" or "My Brother Is Under The Delusion He Is Eminem and Has Impregnated Everyone Within An 8 Mile Radius" on Jeremy Kyle all day everyday is a break - but it isnt. It merely reminds you that the people on the television may be ...unconventional...in their ways, but at least they are getting paid to be so.
So, what does one do when she has all this time on her hands? Movies!! My friend Kate and I can usually be found on an Orange Wednesday pooling our resources - she is also part of our job hunt crew - watching a film. Together Kate and I rather resemble David Dickinson, as I relish a bargain and she shares her colouring with a Satsuma. I joke, she has been known to resemble a cross of Audrey Hepburn and Zooey Deschanel....see K, it's not all horrible! Anyway... last week we found ourselves enjoying the delights of W.E. Now, if you are not going to see this movie because you dont like the fact it is written and directed by Madonna, PLEASE reconsider. It would be the same injustice as if we didnt eat chocolate because we knew it would make us fat - not acceptable. The movie is poignant, moving and there is not a cone bra in sight. In fact, the costuming in this piece is rather beautiful. There is one line in the movie where Wallis Simpson admits she is neither beautiful, nor clever but that she dresses better than any woman she knows and that if everyone in the room looks at her when she enters, she knows she will have made Edward proud. For those of you who dont know W.E is the movie about Wallis Simpson and her marriage to Prince Edward. It has been deemed one of the most tragic love-stories of all time.
Wallis confessing that she dressed to make her husband proud makes me think. Throughout history there has often been the misconception that women dress to please the other sex. This is not true. Yes, Audrey Hepburn may have worn that long black sheath to impress her sugar daddy in jail and yes Marilyn Monroe may have worn a white dress that happened to become the thing of men's dreams, but who really has the control here? As is shown in that well known scene in The Devil Wears Prada where a cerulean belt becomes the starring actress, there is never a moment when most of us women do not calculate to the point of perfection what we will be wearing and why. Style is not a thing only some women have - if you wear only jeans and a t-shirt, then that is your style. Those who deny they follow trends, are merely making their own. Fashion for women is all empowering. It is one thing that men will trail behind us in. They may make more money as the CEO, but we will we be the one turning heads as their assistant CEO in the new to die for McCartney trouser suit; cut so perfectly to our body shape you almost feel it rude to look at us.
Everyday I wear a dress, or jeans, or sweatpants, or a t-shirt or a cardigan, but it is my choice. If a woman walks into a room and everyone stares at her, she should not be worried if her husband is proud, but more is she portraying the seductress, business woman, best friend or daughter that she wants to be seen as in this outfit? So if today you want to look classy like Wallis or you want to look businessy in pearls like the Iron Lady, make sure you remember to be proud of your beloved partners, but to be proud of your Prada more.
Becky xx
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