First of all, thank you for thinking of putting spandex in my denim. For that alone, I love you. School is coming up for me next week and it has been brought to my attention that those beloved jeans and a few fun shirts have been my wardrobe for the last five years. They would probably not be appropriate for the Foreign Service Institute, so we went hunting.
Okay, technically, we went out to Nordstroms and found a "style consultant" who got to dress me up like State Department Barbie and had endless patience while I nixed endless numbers of your creations. Here are just a few of the things I would like you to know:
The current trend of feminine detailing, ruffles and flowers on shirts and jackets is wonderful. The ones that suit my taste are the more subtle, but I can appreciate the more daring and colorful. However, I am not paying eighty dollars for a T-shirt that looks like you just threw on all your leftover embellishments and no woman wants the huge ruffle up and around her neck making her look like bozo the clown.
Real women have hips. I could go nuts talking about these new "paper sack" dresses with the huge wrap around belts, but I think you should just take away the lesson that real women past the age of 19 have hips and a little saddle bag. We do not like all the attention on them.
Almost everyone wants to look and feel good. Could you please not mess with our sizing? Last year I was a size 8 or a Medium, now I'm a 12 or an Extra Large in some stores. I can still fit into those eights and mediums, so I know it's not me or my waist that is changing.
I know it's not exciting, but if you make something and sell out of it, could you please make it again the next year? A different color or with a small twist, maybe. Yes, this is more business than design and art, but if it will get me my favorite sweatshirt in a new color, I'd like to try.
Washable is good. I'm willing to front load the thirty bucks I would probably spend at the cleaners if you'll just make it out of something I can wash it myself. There's a lot of peanut butter and tomato sauce in this house and I'd be willing to take it up a notch if I could actually clean my clothes.
There's probably more, but I can't think of it right now. I'm sure I'll see something at Christmas and want to chat some more.
All the best,
Kristi Lyons
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