Juicy!

I'll admit it, I am more than a little intimidated by fashion.

This is not a surprising position for me to be in considering that we live in a country where style encourages anorexia, and at the same time names fashion products after forbidden foods.

Now, to be fair, I will lay it all out for you. I am a Land's End, solid color, find-it-in-my-size-and-buy-five-at-once kind of girl. I will not pretend to have one iota of true fashion sense. And after giving birth to my second child, I pretty much have resigned myself to the fact the "the girls" are not returning to their original neighborhood anytime soon (my goal has adjusted, and I am aiming for the original zip code instead). And I can, and do, honestly admire without much jealousy, my girlfriends with great fashion sense.

Yet I often find myself perplexed by the current fashion landscape. Here is just one small example:

I was recently at a summer barbeque with my three year old, doing the meet, greet, and yak that we always do at these events. One of my friends entered the room and was nearly mowed down by a mutual aquaintance exclaiming, "Oh my god - your shirt, is it Juicy?!?!?", to which she replied, "No, it's Cupcake", without skipping a beat.

Ladies, we now wear clothing bearing the names of things we wipe off our children's faces and pray will come out in the wash! God forbid we should eat it, but we love to wear it! And many of our fashion and makeup choices now contain names like "creamy mocha", "decadent", and "sinful". Blackberrys have arrived in Raspberry or Chocolate. Even hair dye commercials now boast that you can have your indulgence without the guilt, and mmmmm doesn't her hair look....delicious?!?!?!?!??????????

I long for a place where we can wear our Juicy and have our ice pop! Let's have our Cupcakes and eat them too! Let's Charge these designers and make our demands!

That's it for today. I need to go drink my black coffee and then hop on the treadmill. I'll of course be daydreaming about juicy cupcakes...

Until next time,

Jen