Every
now and then, there are 2 things friends would, out of a blue as part
of the conversation, tell me that I ought to write a book or biography,
and the other thing is that I should run a fashion business. This has
been going on for years, always these 2 directions; nobody ever
suggested I should have a restaurant, or be a secretary, or learn any
trade, run any kind of business or acquire a skill that could turn into a
career. Always a book or a boutique. Oh yes one or two thought I should run a Charm School or be a beauty consultant.
I think I have even written a Blog about this quite some time ago. It had come up again recently. As much as I enjoy writing, I don't think I will ever write a book, especially one of fiction. I am advocate of truth, however boring, unexciting or painful. As to writing my own biography I am more than certain I will never do. I don't want to dwell on the past asI am still too busy living the present and wondering about the future. If, only if ever, I should write it all down, then this imaginary and never to be written biography would be called 'My accidental existence'. The fashion world I had been in it's many aspects, part of the past, and had learned from it that I didn't intend to get myself involved as a long term career or business, in the sense of trying to make a living or, with much luck, earn plenty of money. Again, hypothetically speaking, if I do, I will not have a boutique full of the ultra modern, up to the last second fashion for the young and the skinny, the kind of clothing that carries an invisible sell-by date label of 3 to 6 months. There are far too many of those already, saturated with wear-and-throw-away fashions. I said to my friends that I would more likely run a boutique for larger sizes, and for mature ladies of all ages. Big ladies don't mean they are fat, just big but well proportioned. In that sense, they form the majority of the feminine side of the society. Up to now, the section for those ladies are usually found, with a lot of search, only in a comparatively very small number of odd shops here and there, in a tiny section way at the back of the shops. What is available for these larger or older ladies can hardly be called fashion, more utility wear of practicality, just so that they don't have to go naked. Not mine. My fashion shop or boutique, if I had one, would have large stock of fashionable wear, elegant, cool, hip, chic, sexy ... and all other adjectives one applies to the catwalk fashion for the young and willowy. (That would mean I have to get my clothing else where though, as I happen to be very slim.) It's just that I see no reason at all why a size XL lady of 50, 60 or 70 should always look drab and what's politely called 'homely'. My brand name would be 'BNB' - Big & Beautiful. What do you think? I would have designs for them to make them feel and look elegant, fashionable, attractive and definitely catch some wolf-whistles. |
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