Last night, I was reading the story of Cinderella to my daughter at bedtime. I loved that story when I was a kid and my parents bought me this Glow in the Dark book in which you could see her glass slippers glimmering in the dark when the lights were out. Best Memory Ever. However, when I was reading it to M last night, somehow the same story did not evoke the same emotions.
If you still love the story, skip a paragraph and go straight to the outfit details. I don't want to spoil it for you but that story is about a girl who is waiting for a guy to rescue her, that's it. Then that girl pretends to be a princess so the prince will fall for her. I mean, Come on we are in the era of Kate Middleton. She still isn't pretending to be someone she is not.
For some reason, that story came out as the most male chauvinist piece of writing I have come across in a while. So, then I moved on to another story and the same thing happened. the emphasis was on glorifying men and how women can't do much when they are stuck in a bad situation. That's when I felt like we need new stories for our girls. The more I think of it the more I feel like Aesop's Fables was more gender neutral than the story of Cinderella. A lesson at the end of a story works fine for me but role models who can't find a way out of a bad situation are NOT!
On that note, in today's outfit I am wearing a crop top with a maxi skirt accessorized with an emerald mini bag and ankle strap sandals in a neutral shade. I have always felt like a crop top is an excellent match for a maxi skirt - basically the long and short of it. I bought the skirt on one of our travels to Indianapolis. It was just one of those things I would like to see in my closet in the coming years and I often buy things like that. You have seen the crop top here before.
