Words from Tavi

So unless you've been living under a rock for the last... Forever, then you would have heard about Tavi. The 13 year old fashion prodidgy who personally, I love because she is of the least pretentious of that smutty fashion crowd and an all round positive happy go lucky gal.

ANYWAY, without going into the reasons of why we all love her, I thought I would post up a quick(long) quote(post) I read a while ago on her blog. She is an incredible stylist if I had ever seen one and "we shall all take thy words of hers to heart."




"A lot of the time I blame my style ruts and lazy dressing on life being poopy (I know I'm lucky, but I'm also angsty, and a teenager) and on hostile environments. No matter how many times I try to stick with the "life is beautiful! Everyone is nice once you get to know them!" mindset, I end up more with the "life sucks, you're standing on my neck" one, because I go to school (or anywhere, but mostly school) and get all sad because there is sexism and racism and general depressing...middle schoolyness. For a while I've let myself use this as a reason to wear a very basic combination of things, every day. But really I should use these hostile environments as reasons as to why I should create my own world through my outfits, because a certain outfit totally puts you in a different place, and it's easier to ignore certain kinds of people when I'm in my own world, yes? And as far as life sucking goes, this then makes me want to create and learn and absorb as many interesting things as I can. This doesn't mean the realities of Life Suckage, like the sexism and racism, should go ignored, and I try to do both (not sexism and racism, I mean creating my own world as well as trying to make life not suck for other people.) This is fulfilling to me. I'm putting this here because I want to hear what you think and because I'll get in more ruts and have to come back to it. If I read this in many years I will shake my head at all the teenagerness, then be sort of pleased."

Well, she had a good point. There's so much shit happening out there but as creatives, and stylish ones at that we can create our own little happy world in the way we dress and style ourselves.
So followers, head out there tomorrow in your most creative outfit and create the world that you want to live in.

Much love,
The ROF.
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