308. Although it’s lovely to exist in a state of deshabille, thank you Meggy & Dorothy Height for reminding us to fight for the right to dress up and not be put down
April 26th, 2010 § 9 Comments
I have a long post in the works related a little bit to Meggy’s moving tribute to Dorothy Height, and related to my Shanghai trip earlier this month, and related to the politics of dressing up and being a site and a sight to see, and related to the recent fucked up legislation passed in Arizona, and related to Threadbared’s last post on epidermilized clothing, and very very much related to this brilliant lecture by Chimamanda Adichie that speaks directly to every single thing that is dear and important to me as a writer and as a person of color struggling to be as expansive and weird and banal and surprising and contradictory and unappealing and familiar and unapologetic as I can’t help but be, without having to resist someone else’s narrow vision of who I am and should be.
It’s all unformed and abstract and annoyingly vague right, and I’m also sorry to do another uninspired outfit post. These photos were taken after I found out that Michael got a research Fulbright to Slovenia and I called him (he’s in France right now) and felt like I needed him to be back in Iowa City so we could dance (him like Ian Curtis and me like a Peanuts character) in every room of the house and make a big Vietnamese salad with a Chinese egg, tomato, scallion, and cilantro soup on the side and at least three different choices of hot sauce.
Vintage white dress, vintage tooled purse, purple bow booties from Shanghai, drugstore tights, & vintage bracelets from Meggy & from under my bed
Love, Jenny
Your boots are really sweet! The first picture is amazing!
I love the bow booties, they are super cute! xo Mish
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That’s the little white dress I always dream of finding in the thrift stores! And with sheer tights? Ooh, it’s wonderful.
I’m also jealous of your cooking abilities and I think maybe I’m the opposite of you because I can only bake because of the precise written instructions . . there’s so much creativity and guesswork that goes into cooking that I just can’t get it right!
oh with those heels your outfit becomes unexpected.
Awesome shoes! Adichie is a genius. She balances her truth-telling with humor so well in this talk. TED is good for the world.
I can’t wait for that post! Plus, I love those booties too and I apparently missed a few posts due to being busy but I just need to say I love your vintage sailor romper SO MUCH! Gah, I want something like that
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And thank you so much for your lovely comment the other day!
these are gorgeous photos – and that outfit is so fierce! I love the delicate white dress with the intense shoes.
ugh – the legislation in AZ is beyond effed up – and to go along with it they’re now trying to introduce bills that would prohibit the teaching of ethnic studies curricula – when I saw the headline i thought i was reading a spoof piece in the Onion..
wery good dress thanks
wery good dress thanks mucxx