ticker tape parade no. 7

Image from the silk shirt alteration tutorial at One Pearl Button

There's a really fantastic tutorial on how to alter a silk button down shirt (or any button down shirt, but silk is such a nice fabric) over at One Pearl Button. This girl has so many sweet tutorials! She's also hosting a four year blogging anniversary giveaway. You should really check her out!

I think next week I'm going to participate in the Inspiration Monday project on the Two Birds blog. I want to connect with more bloggers, and this seems like a good place to start. Especially because I thrifted a really nice plaid flannel this week and this is the inspiration picture!

I also started following Love Elycia and Q's Daydream this week. Both are completely adorable.

And then I wanted to leave this bit-of-a-rant for last:

A blog that I've been following for years posted this article, Why You're Not Married, by Tracy McMillan, calling it an "an honest and in your face assessment of how single women manage to stay single." This made me so mad when I first read it. I pulled up the two articles that I knew of that break down why this article is so harmful to women, one by Feministing and one by Jezebel (though the Jezebel post doesn't so much break it down as satirically point out how it's harmful), and wanted to post a comment - which I've never done on this blog - with links to Feministing and Jezebel. Then I stepped back. How would you react if someone you had never had any contact with left a comment about how wrong something you thought was - something that's been shoved down your throat your entire life - like sexist ideas about women? My comment wouldn't do anything to change how this person thinks about marriage and why they're not married, and would probably just solidify how crazy those feminists are. This post makes me want to stop reading this blog, even though I don't read it for it's feminist politics but because I like how the person dresses. How do I reconcile my politics with really prevalent women bashing in the fashion world, by women themselves? I don't know.