leggings: H&M - shirt: River Island - Sneakers: Ebay - watch: c/o Swatch - ring: Alex Monroe
These shoes are SO love-them-or-hate-them that I don't even love them all the time. Most of the time I absolutely do, but I'm not sure about them with this outfit. My feet looked HUGE in most of the pictures, for realz :-D But experimenting with style is about making mistakes as well. And here I am, sparing you from making the same mistakes by showing my own failure! Lemme tell you, flatform sneakers look a lot better with short skirts than with leggings.
ANYWAYS! I'm signing off for a documentary about some religious guy who has fathered 100+ children. OBVIOUSLY I'm not missing out on something like that. My boyfriend actually just told me about some guy who lived in our town and fathered 23 children with just two wives. That's just not right. If you ask me, making your wife have 10+ kids (in the times before birth control or women having the right to decide about what to do with their own bodies), is just another form of spousal abuse. Sometimes I wonder how many women were/are pressured into having a bazillion babies because that's what their families/husbands/religion/the powers that be expect of them.
Ah, just a light note about families and life from yours truly! KBYE :-D
So in love with this look! Your watch is just perfect.
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Ik zou ze zelf niet dragen, maar ik vind dat ze jou goed staan! Hier vallen de voeten idd harder op, maar dat komt doordat je al slanke benen hebt. En je bent echt de enigste ter wereld die nog slanker lijkt in legging met een print, UNREAL!
ReplyDeleteYeah, and then I think the fathers/husbands must also have been nuts because kids are expensive, so unless you're a Sheikh or something, it's going to add up! Loved the title of this post by the way... way kind of expecting shoes covered with a bajillion babies though. ;)
ReplyDeleteI would SO buy those.
ReplyDeleteI lurve the leggings, so much I didn't even notice the shoes.
ReplyDeleteI even looked on ebay, and your leggings are on there in my size, but there over £20 and I'm not sure I'd be brave enough to wear them. :(
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don't you have a H&M nearby? They often have very similar offerings for like 10-15€!
ReplyDeleteHi, Annebeth. I spent the first nineteen years of my life in Asheville, North Carolina, in which there live a great many families (at least twenty families that I can think of immediately), fundamentalist Christians, all of whom have at least ten or twelve children. I completely agree with you that the men of those families pressing their wives to have one baby every year is nothing less than spousal abuse. What's more, is that every girl I grew up with who belonged to one of those families had been brainwashed into believing that she was put on earth to give birth to as many children as possible for the sole purpose of creating more fundamentalist Christians. These girls would also be pressured into marrying young (most of them got married between the ages of sixteen and twenty) to boys of the same age, from the same kind of families, who they'd often known for less than twelve months. It's a disgusting and sad practice, to say the least. I think that religious patriarchal families boasting hordes of children are more common than you'd think, and a lot of them exist in the United States; they just never make the news!
ReplyDeleteNice leggings!
oh I know it happens a lot. In fact, my mom's family is very religious as well, part of one of the most fundamental christian communities in Holland. Her mom died in child labour, giving birth to the 6th child after the doctor had told her she couldn't have any more children. As you can see, the subject is one I'm quite familiar with, and hits close to home. It's very sad.
ReplyDeleteGoodness I had a pair of shoes like that in high school that I wore TO DEATH. Literally. I miss them. Hmm... maybe I should get another pair. They certainly look great, I think :)
ReplyDeleteI shudder at the thought of having one kid let alone going into the double digits. It's one thing, I think, to be pressured into. I agree that that's just wrong. But if the woman subscribes to the same thoughts when it comes to birth control or religion, and she makes the choice to pop out that many kids, then that's her prerogative. Just like it's mine to take the pill and stay kid free.
yeah, obviously, but when someone grows up in a religious community like that and is taught that the only way to serve the lord and end up in heaven is to have as many babies as physically possible (or impossible), I have my questions about how much of her own choice really is her own choice.
ReplyDeletebut of course, that's how society is. Social norms steer me in a certain direction just as much as religion does for other people :)
I'm sorry. :(
ReplyDeleteJust loving your style...that floral leggings are awesome and you look fab...
ReplyDeleteIk vind het net wel heel mooi staan: die schoenen met de legging! Maakt het geheel wat stoerder en edgier. Loving it!
ReplyDeleteIk vind het net wel heel mooi staan: die legging met die schoenen. Maakt het geheel wat stoerder en edgier! Loving it!
ReplyDeletehaha why should you be sorry? :D you couldn't know, and you obviously have your own experiences!
ReplyDeleteSome people are too selfish to have children.
ReplyDeleteSome people should not reproduce because they are too selfish.
ReplyDeletelove your blog. you are so cute.
ReplyDeleteThose pants are AMAZING!! And I love your little flower ring!
ReplyDeletexx aliya
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