Glares and Stares
Current mood: Beautiful

For the past couple weeks I've been a little more adventurous with my wardrobe. Well.. nothing crazy really. I've simply been opting to wear short skirts. Normally I wear knee length to floor length skirts, and if I did wear a short skirt, I'd wear it with capris or pants. However, I've been wearing my short skirts sans pants. What has brought the sudden change and more femme style? Well... it's warm enough to be able to do it and cool enough as well. It's perfect temperature to be sporting my beloved plaid/pleated skirts, as well as my short jean skirts. I feel really great when I wear them. I have these killer legs that most people have never seen. It's time to break these babies out and give them some air. They're just too pretty to constantly hide beneath fabric. Plus, I get constant compliments from my friends and co-workers. I have some really cute skirts that have been sitting in my closet not getting any love and attention. Sadly though, winter is just around the bend and soon I'll be putting the short skirts away to be exchanged with pants, tights, and the dreaded.. layers. I gotta live it up while I can!

Despite my obvious enthusiasm about my new style, not everyone agrees with my fashion choice. I see the looks I get from other girls. They glare at me and stare as though I'm comminting some sort of fashion faux-pah. I'd say they're just jealous but many of them have nice legs just like me. And what are they so upset for? There is nothing wrong with dressing up cute. It sure beats walking around campus all day in dingy old sweat pants. If anyone needs a good kick in the fashion rear, it's them. Who was the idiot who decided that matching sweat suits were a good idea? What man wants to take his girl out to dinner while she wears one of those baby pink numbers?

Another thing.. don't glare at me like I'm some sort of hussy. What is revealed by my wearing a short skirt is nothing compared to you in your tight designer jeans. While wearing my skirt all you see is the shape of my legs and probably the width of my hips. When a woman wears pants, her entire body is on display. You can see everything from the curvature of her rear, what type of underwear she's wearing, and straight down into her obvious camel toe. It leaves nothing to the imagination. What you see is what you get.

A part of the disdainful glances might also have something to do with the fact that my hair is different, my jewelry is spikey, my make up extreme, and colors more or less are black. From the outside I'm your typical Goth Girl. Watch out.. she might cast a spell on you! ... oh please. Let's look at my style and compare it with the wonderful creations give to us by God.

My hair tends to be spiked up, in pigtails or a mohawk, depending on my mood and time availability. What's so wrong with that? You think it's unnatural? God bestowed upon the beautiful Cardinal, male and female, a mohawk. Do you hate the Cardinal for its auspicious hairdo? God surely doesn't. He gave horses beautiful tails of hair that we mimic everyday. Because I wear two, does that make me bad? As for spiked hair, have you never seen the purple sea urchin? Their whole body is covered in spikes. If the sea urchin can decorate itself thusly, why can't I?

If you know me well, you'll know one of my favorite pieces of jewelry is my spiked bracelet. All I can say to that is, "Every rose has its thorn." You'll also know that I paint my eyes with eyeliner, deep and dark. So did the Egyptians. Would you go up to Cleopatra and tell her that she looked like a moron for elaborately coloring her eyes? Would you stare her in unbelief because she was making some sort of make-up mistake? No! Cleopatra was a beautiful, powerful, and exotic queen. The Egyptians themselves were a great civilization. By me taking their beauty techniques, I'm honoring a once awesome society.

Finally... I do wear a lot of black. Does this make me evil? Does that mean I'm melancholy? No. God never says that it were forbidden to wear black. Black is a color and if you know anything about color, Black is a combination and conglomeration of all colors. My fashion style and my fashion taste is not what it is that you make it to be. It's me honoring and acknowledging all the beauty that God has given to all of us.