In one of my first articles I mentioned that the fact that I moved
away from my family helped me develop my own sense for fashion (maybe
not the right one, but definitely mine and not someone else's). This
doesn't mean that living with them was somehow bad. It wasn't. But I
wore a lot of my mother's clothes (who is S size, while I was M+),
because back then I hated shopping for clothes and I found this
arrangement easier. I still get to have her shoes (we are same size and
have similar way of stretching the shoe. And she keeps buying new pairs
of the same style, so at one moment she has like 30 - 50 pairs of shoes
but only 10 - 20 styles. And as she could never wear them all, I always
get some. Which is great, because I hate buying shoes. And to be honest,
she picks shoes that won't get out of fashion (at least not very soon).
I
also spoke about the fact, that living with three beautiful and thin
women (I have to get used to this expression, my sisters are 19 years
old, for Brian's sake!) made my self-esteem really low (no bad feelings
towards them though) so I am more satisfied with my size now that I am
living on my own.
I'm getting to the
point, really. I just wanted to show you those
super-stylish-beautiful-thin females I lived with. With their
permission, of course.
First,
my sisters (because they are easier to deal with). If you haven't
noticed, they are twins. But that is not important. The thing is, aren't
they just perfect? For years I thought how unfair it was to grow up
near them. And even though I am the older one, I felt like being in
their shadow. The worst it got like three and a half year ago, when they
started to attend the same high school as I used to. And once I met
this guy in a pub, one year younger than me, we chatted a little bit and
then he asked my name. I told him. And he said something: " Ah, there's
three of you?" It's not that he hadn't noticed me for the five years I
was at the same school and he did notice my sisters after only half a
year (as I was not very memorable back then). It was that he called me
the third (I couldn't give the exact translation of what he said without
giving my family name, which I don't want to). What do you mean
"third"?! I am the first!
Now I am more confident about myself. I
understood that not being perfect doesn't make me less awesome. Each one
of us is different. My sisters are supposed to be identical. And they
are far from that. Right now, as I can remember clearly what I dealt
with when I was their age, all I care about is them being happy. And
confident. And making the right choices. And also that the time of our
disagreements is almost over and I really like having them over at our
place for coffee or diner.
Plus, the evil part of me hopes,
that they might grow fat someday in the future (even if that won't make
them any less beautiful).
It
is more difficult with my mum. On one hand I loved the fact that I
could brag about her. About how stylish and young she looked at her age,
but yet it didn't seem inappropriate and childish. Back then I borrowed
a lot from her closet, which was also quite cool. On the other hand,
people often thought she is my sister. Which might be good for her
self-esteem but not that great for mine. There were times I believed
that your mum is just not supposed to look better than you.
I
want to say I don't care anymore. But I still have those bad days (very
rarely though), when I feel ugly and unwanted and I feel threatened by
my mother and my sisters and every other girl. But I try my best.
Because each of us has her own issues. And mine are no bigger than
theirs. Also, since I moved, I am not exposed to their beauty all the
time, so it might be easier to cope. Nevertheless, I love them all. I
love my mother, because she was the kind of a cool mum every girl would
want, really.
In terms of fashion, I think it is awesome to
look at the different styles each of us represents. There might be
similar elements but in general, we adapted different attitude to
fashion.
That is all from me now. You can make your opinion on my girls.
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