Previously: Dressember Days 1-2, Dressember Days 3-5, Dressember Days 6-8, Dressember Days 9-11, Dressember Days 12-14, Dressember Days 15-18, Dressember Days 19-21.
Six days to go, and forty-eight dollars until we reach the one thousand mark on the Dressember fundraising campaign. I’m fast running out of dresses, both mine and other people’s, so I might have to get creative and this could get interesting. Again, thank you very much indeed to everyone who is contributing, spreading the word, or just enjoying the posts and being aware of this issue.
A reminder as to what it’s all about: I decided to put my experiments in and thinking around femininity and feminism towards a good cause, and signed up for Dressember, in which one is sponsored to wear dresses for a month in support of a women’s charity. I’m raising funds for the Hamlin Fistula® Relief and Aid Fund, which is the Australian representative of the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia. Fistulas are obstetric holes that develop during obstructed pregnancies, and they disproportionately affect youth and those who don’t have sufficient nutrition. They’re almost non-existent in the Western world, but thousands of cases develop each year in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. The Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital is the only one of its kind in Ethiopia, and cures 93% of cases. It provides a home and employment for those with the other 7%, and is also training midwives so that fistulas will be minimised in Ethiopia in future. I’ve been passionate about this work for many years, and would appreciate anything you can donate towards my month-long fundraising campaign.
Thursday’s dress was very kindly mailed to me by reader Hedgepig. Remarkably, it fits me perfectly, which tells you that not only is Hedgepig generous, but she also has amazing visual-spatial skills. I love flowy, floor-length clothes, but most of mine fitting that description are skirts, so it’ll be so nice to have this in my wardrobe. It has an interesting dotty pattern that looks very different close up and far away. It’s going to keep me entertained, this one. Thanks again, Hedgepig!!
Friday’s dress is loving and giving – er, sorry, this is kind of reminding me of a nursery rhyme called “Monday’s Child”. Friday’s dress is very similar to my dress of the fourteenth. That’s because they were both designed by Sydneysider Lily Whyt. Hey, I go with what works, and I’ve had this one for years, so long that its stories have all blended together. Yes, I do like a bit of repetition, as may or may not also be evident with the presence of two corduroy jackets in this post.
Speaking of which, let me introduce you to Saturday’s dress – or, I would, but it’s not strictly speaking a dress. (I told you I’d have to get creative.) It’s a hand-me-down slip I’ve been periodically contemplating working as a dress. We’ll have to see how that goes. I’m thinking an overlayer that I can, excuse the pun, slip on and off the top of it. It looks like a trip to the fabric store may be happening at some stage – perhaps when I’ve used all the spare material in my sewing basket. Pale pink and sheer, what do you think?
I am very fond of today’s dress. I’m glad the bubble skirt trend deflated a little by the time I got this, because the bubble skirt on this dress is a beautiful feature without being too distracting. This dress has got loads of cool little features, like the extra bit I have to arrange over my shoulders, deep pockets, (which are useful and should be on more women’s clothes) and a really lovely and unusual cut.
That’s it once more. Please donate to the campaign and/or spread the word if you’re so inclined and able.
Wow, so close! This is awesome :)
And I totally agree on pockets – even as a woman who always carries a bag and is almost always wearing a coat, I still like to have pockets for around the house. I have a couple pairs of pajama pants that don’t have pockets and I keep thinking, “What silly person who apparently *never uses tissues* designed these?!” Heehee
I know!! :D
Of course, the problem comes when you forget to remove the tissues before laundering. Not that I’ve ever done that…! Ahem.
Oh. Me neither. I have never ever done that.
:P
(Lordy, what a lot of mess it makes – it seems like one tissue turns into about six when it gets wet!)
This was one thing I loved about the switch to hankies!
Really glad you like the dress, Chally; it does indeed look marvellous on you, as expected.
On pockets: a friend showed me some pics of his son’s wedding and he mentioned that the bridal gown had pockets in it. What genius! When I was a bridesmaid it freaked me out to have to go out for a whole day without my purse, and I’m sure if you were the bride you’d be even more inclined to need a few key items close to hand. So heed this, all ye lasses who intend to have weddings.
On hankies: the fact that they don’t destroy your whole wash if you forget to take them out of your pockets is the one thing that’s good about them. Forget mud: snot sticks.
(which are useful and should be on more women’s clothes)
yes yes yes!
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