Rhymes With Foam.

May 16

hellogiggles: WATCH #FITCHTHEHOMELESS/THE RE-BRANDING OF ABERCROMBIE & FITCH by Blaire Bercy http://bit.ly/12e3ZbB Seriously, this campaign makes me want to bash my face into my desk. I am all for donating clothes to the needy. By all means, if you have more clothes than you can wear, please give them to an organization who will distribute them to those who need them! Mike Jeffries is for sure a huge asshole. I never would’ve worn their clothes in high school anyway because they were too expensive, but I was definitely in the too fat/too uncool demographic he so publicly despises. I would love to degrade the brand of A&F, but he’s enough of a jackass that I think he’s doing that on his own. On the flip side, homeless people are not our props to use to humiliate a brand. Just like it was insensitive when jackass college kids tried to run a business taking donations of money to purchase rival schools’ gear (which was then distributed to homeless people to try to sully the school’s reputation), this is dehumanizing. “But they’re homeless! They should be grateful to get free clothes!” No. You also can’t spit your sandwich out onto a napkin and hand it to someone on the street to say “Well you’re hungry, you should grateful.” They are still people, and should be allowed the human dignity of not being used as pawns in a game of degrading a brand. You are telling them that them wearing clothes is degrading that brand. As far as I know, it’s fairly common practice to destroy damaged or excess product rather than donate it. I don’t think that’s RIGHT, and I don’t know if it’s a legal loophole issue or just a “stupid company policy” issue but does no one remember that we were JUST outraged about H&M doing that? In closing, I think most of the people who support this idea have their hearts in the right place, but rather than tell people who find it problematic that they’re being “overly sensitive” or “too easily offended,” we should all take a critical look at it and how it really affects the people involved.

hellogiggles:

WATCH #FITCHTHEHOMELESS/THE RE-BRANDING OF ABERCROMBIE & FITCH

by Blaire Bercy

http://bit.ly/12e3ZbB

Seriously, this campaign makes me want to bash my face into my desk.

  1. I am all for donating clothes to the needy. By all means, if you have more clothes than you can wear, please give them to an organization who will distribute them to those who need them!
  2. Mike Jeffries is for sure a huge asshole. I never would’ve worn their clothes in high school anyway because they were too expensive, but I was definitely in the too fat/too uncool demographic he so publicly despises. I would love to degrade the brand of A&F, but he’s enough of a jackass that I think he’s doing that on his own.
  3. On the flip side, homeless people are not our props to use to humiliate a brand. Just like it was insensitive when jackass college kids tried to run a business taking donations of money to purchase rival schools’ gear (which was then distributed to homeless people to try to sully the school’s reputation), this is dehumanizing.
  4. “But they’re homeless! They should be grateful to get free clothes!” No. You also can’t spit your sandwich out onto a napkin and hand it to someone on the street to say “Well you’re hungry, you should grateful.” They are still people, and should be allowed the human dignity of not being used as pawns in a game of degrading a brand. You are telling them that them wearing clothes is degrading that brand.
  5. As far as I know, it’s fairly common practice to destroy damaged or excess product rather than donate it. I don’t think that’s RIGHT, and I don’t know if it’s a legal loophole issue or just a “stupid company policy” issue but does no one remember that we were JUST outraged about H&M doing that?

In closing, I think most of the people who support this idea have their hearts in the right place, but rather than tell people who find it problematic that they’re being “overly sensitive” or “too easily offended,” we should all take a critical look at it and how it really affects the people involved.

May 12

Old Dress/New Dress, part 1

As inspired by New Dress a Day, I finally finished my first Goodwill reconstruction!

I was torn about even buying this dress. It was the epitome of so many things that could be wrong with a dress. I didn’t even know if I liked the fabric. But I do like a challenge, so I decided to make this mine.

This is so you can see that it has pockets. Chest pockets. And I had to hold it like this or else it revealed more cleavage than I am comfortable posting on this blog.

I started by carefully seam ripping the pockets off, and then removing the sleeves and the collar. Already, it was so much better. I had to decide if I wanted to make it a sundress or just a sleeveless v-neck with gathered shoulders.

I also couldn’t decide if I wanted to rip apart the bodice and make the skirt a little less enormous, but then I realized that the skirt has POCKETS. I love a pocketed skirt, so that made the rest of the decisions easy. Full skirt, sundress top. The pattern on the dress is so busy and migraine-inducing, I figured it would be best if there was less of it.

I basically just chopped across the back and cut the overlapping pieces in the front. There was so much extra fabric that I didn’t know how to trim, so I ended up gathering them and trimming with some conveniently colored teal ribbon I had. I used the sleeves to make a couple straps, and suddenly I have a whole new dress!

I’m still trying to decide if I want to replace the buttons on the front (they’re so weird and random but I’m excited that I was able to turn the ugliest dress I’ve ever seen into something actually wearable!

Mar 26

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Mar 10

Popping tags

I’m going to Goodwill later, so I’m prepping by reading through the archives of New Dress A Day, which is the blog of a woman who spent a whole year buying a new (old) dress for $1 and fixing it up…every day.

I feel like every post I’m like “THAT ugly dress? There’s no way she can turn that hideous thing into anything cute OH MY GOD SHE DID IT.” So now I’m going to go buy $30 worth of muumuus which will become adorable sundresses for the summer. It’s happening.

Mar 09

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Mar 08

Work dream.

The other night I had a dream about someone who works in my office, but who I don’t actually know. Now every time I walk by his desk all I can think is “Remember that time you hosted an open mic in your pajamas?”

Feb 26

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Feb 11

Just what every girl wants for Valentine’s Day: an amazon gift card! Really though, it’s a better option to just get no gift at all if this is the direction you’re going.

Just what every girl wants for Valentine’s Day: an amazon gift card! Really though, it’s a better option to just get no gift at all if this is the direction you’re going.

Feb 06

I hate feeling like I can’t sass-back the catcallers in my neighborhood.

Because god forbid they are the type to hold a grudge or have an easily bruised ego or feel the need to teach mouthy girls a lesson, and I run into them again in the dark on my way home one night.

But I can say it here. To the gentleman who saw me out running this morning and told me, among other things, to “Yeah, lose that weight!”, you can kiss my giant ass and go fuck yourself forever, sir.