Wednesday 27 April 2011

Them and the rest of us




I love this picture of Kate Hudson and her son. This is obviously not how the rest of us dress to go to the supermarket! But aren't we all a bit jealous about how perfect and perfectly fashionable she is in this picture (and possibly abut the fact that she is on her way to an event for which dressing up "like that" is actually appropriate?)

I have other fashion icons, obviously, such as Katie Holmes and Reese Witherspoon, but also Michelle Obama and Julia Roberts. What about you?


Photo: Vogue US.


Monday 25 April 2011

Beginnings



Starting a blog about fashion for thirty-something moms like me has been one of my shelf projects for a little while -- that is, since I shed away the baby weight I had accumulated during my first pregnancy and I got interested in fashion again. I then realized there is a vacuum in the existing resources for moms who, even though they are not Kate Hudson or Katie Holmes, want to be a bit fashionable. Indeed my time management skills have been confronted with a number of challenges since my son's arrival. Sitting and relaxing after work to flip through Vogue and catch up with the latest fashion trends? No more. After work now equals to a frenzy of bath-prepare supper-eat supper-have quality time together before you pass out or you force yourself to do some more work to catch up with what you have not done during the day while you were busy getting an appointment with a pediatrician or picking up the soccer's outfit for next week's game. Window shopping downtown on a Saturday afternoon with your girlfriends? Forget it. Weekends equal to the after work frenzy on steroids -- since they generally involve playdates as well.

But the most important thing I realized is that I do not mind the challenges. My son is all worth it, and more. I just need a little time to figure out what to wear in the morning without feeling I went to work in my pajama or, worse, without imagining my own mother's disapproving look for the outfit I picked without looking. This brought me to envision a space to share thoughts about fashion (and likely about kids as well) with other moms like me.


I am sure you now wonder how I finally found the time. I became one of those lucky university professors who, after receiving tenure, can take a year of "sabbatical leave" from their home institution. This time has to be dedicated to research -- the one element of a professor's curriculum that is crucially important but that is most easily swallowed by other responsibilities, especially when children come in the picture. But I decided that, since I have never taken break since elementary school, I can dedicate one percent of this time to this project. After all, I am sure It can be considered research as well.



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