Three Fashion Savvy Disabled Women You Have to Follow Now.
Oh my God, I want those boots… and that skirt… and could I wear that blouse?
16 year old me was sitting on my bedroom floor flicking through the Myers (think John Lewis or Sears) fashion brochure. That particular year Victorian high fashion was in. Gothic dresses, puff sleeved blouses and hook lace boots were all the rage.
This brochure was my fashion life aspiration. I hung onto this brochure for years, way past its use-by date. Every now and then I would dig it out of my scrapbook draw and flick through the beautiful pictures.
Black and white artistic shots of women and men dressed in their elegant finery. I remember specifically two things from this brochure that I still want to this day — the knee high lace hook leather boots and the top hat with a lace veil pulled seductively over the model’s face.
I knew that those knee high boots were an impossibility. I knew that the large top hat, with the sexy veil, would probably affect my balance issues.
Since this zeitgeist of my fashion life, my interest in fashion has waxed and waned.
The closest I get to being a fashionista is as a “wannabe.”
I have had my moments though, where effort is made and I burst onto the social scene like a dazzling…
