This is my new fashion look for work and other business casual situations, along with general wear when I’m not preferring to be in athletic or other types of garments. It was inspired by McCall pattern 4745 of a historical Civil War look, with me doing my own pattern and adding the DIY wheeled or ring buttons that I came up with the idea for when the local fabric store didn’t have any buttons I liked and could use.
Author: Digital Citizen
Is Transracial Next for Diversity After Transgender?
Caitlyn Jenner gave transgender issues the spotlight it needed to start a societal level conversation we needed to have. It’s far from being as widely accepted as it needs to be, but what next, be that now, soon or some time yet still down the road? As far as I’m concerned, we can move now. There is another group not yet even identified, but only needs to be given a name. They are what I’ll call transracial or those deem themselves to be “born” of the wrong race.
Yeah, you just scoff at it like most people used to scoff at transgender. Make all your excuses why such a thing doesn’t exist. But I’ll tell you one thing, on a practical level, it’s far more common than transgender will ever be!
Fashion for the Disabled
Did you know that 1 in 5 people is disabled?
Well, that depends on your definition of disabled. However, the rates are generally about 1 in 7 (14%, Canada) to 1 in 5 (20%, Scotland, US), among the range of definitions of disabled. Regardless, it’s a lot of people when you multiply that rate by the tens or hundreds of millions of people in a population.
And what do you think they wear?
Very Easy DIY Wheel or Ringed Buttons
While looking for buttons today, I was once again dissatisfied with the selection seen in the local fabric store. I think I’ve ruined things for myself by having visited Fashion Districts in New York and Los Angeles that the local stores in small city Halifax will never be able to satisfy me again. However, an idea popped into my head and I was able to walk away with some useful, as well as unique, buttons! Well, that is until someone exactly copies this idea. 🙂
Try This Prank If You’re Not Caucasian
I come up with a lot of interesting ideas out of nowhere, it seems, when I run for distance running training. This was something I came up with today. It’s a practical joke idea that could be funny, but also a bit discomforting in a symbolic sort of way given race relations the way they are these days. It doesn’t make fun of people’s skin colour, but gets people thinking about it. It could work for Caucasian people as well, but probably not nearly as effectively.
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