perhaps ms. fits could donate a dress to the cause?
yesterday the devastatingly handsome, mammary-obsessed will fop sent me an email alerting me to an adorable letter published in the age over the weekend.
this is what the letter said:
'when you go into shopping centres and you want to find pretty summer dresses, what do you find? nothing. well, almost nothing. i am 10 years old, and there are dresses for little children, but not for older children. i want only to wear dresses like those i wore when i was seven or eight - not grown-up clothes. i think the factories should make clothes for my age, too. there are hundreds of thousands of 10-year old girls in australia who very badly need dresses.
rachel owens, east kew.'
is this not the sweetest, albeit slightly misguided thing you've ever read*?
i think i love rachel owens, east kew.
i love her for her (or perhaps her mother's/father's/teacher's) use of punctuation.
i love her for her keen sense of fashion. dresses are the new jeans after all.
i love her for her creative, snappy discourse:
- "...what do you find? nothing."
i love her for her conviction, her zeal, her self-awareness:
- "...i want only to wear dresses like those i wore when i was seven or eight - not grown-up clothes."
and most of all i love her for her (perhaps misdirected) sense of charity:
- "there are hundreds of thousands of 10-year old girls in australia who very badly need dresses."
SOMEBODY CALL KOFI ANNAN! WE HAVE A HUMAN RIGHTS CRISIS ON OUR HANDS! SEND HELP, STAT!
imagine, hundreds and thousands of little australian girls having to wear skirts, or worse still, shorts (ew!) because akira isogawa has yet to realise the potential of the 10-year old niche dress market.
but really, all (bad) jokes aside, HOW CUTE IS THIS LETTER?
rachel owens, east kew, i heart you.
i just wish i could sew. then i would make miss rachel as many age-appropriate dresses as she could fit in her closet.
then again, if i could sew i'd probably be too busy making "pretty summer dresses" for myself instead of spending all my money on designer rags i really can't afford but simply MUST HAVE.
in fact, i think i'll go shopping right now. its been at least 2 days since i bought a new dress.
ciao.
x
*at least since reading about simon binks' ridiculous quest to blame others for the fact he is a complete cockhead.
8 Comments:
missy owens
maybe you can write a poignant song about your frock-deprived childhood in a few years.
ms jaded, far kew.
That is so cute!
Poor Rachel, I sympathise.
I lamented the fact that I couldn't find dresses like I wore when I was 7 or 8 in Melbourne all the time until I was 29, when suddenly they were everywhere, but obviously not for 10 year olds.
Start your own design house, Rach!
ARE YOU SAYING I WEAR CHILDREN'S CLOTHES YOUNG LADY?
Sigh. Carry on.
ah sweet fitsy, you forget how many times we've been shopping together and how many times i've stayed at your house (and rummaged through your things when you weren't looking).
Miss Owens pricks our conscience and one's thoughts dwell on the needs of deprived children everywhere. Oui, even those residing outside Paris.
Of course I would be delighted to design an exclusive creation for Miss Owens. But she is too fat, non?
She must lose 92 lbs immediately and go on a diet consisting entirely of fish soufflé, quail flambé, ham and raspberry mousse, vegetables in aspic, and roast guinea fowl with tarragon.
She may have a little homeopathic granule if very hungry.
karl you are too funny, ja?
on a serious note, for this is a serious matter, i have a nine year old and ten year old girl in my care. that's two of them. they don't want to wear dresses they hate them. BUT if they were to want to wear dresses, they would either look like mini-debs (see Myers, David Jones etc) or mini-skanky-hos (see everwhere else, including Target.)
i feel for rachel, i really do.
did you hear about the charity which donates dresses to under-privileged debs etc? i think clem has it on her blog. what's going on with dresses in the world? it's a movement!
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