Thanks for the Giving

At every Thanksgiving, we stand up and state what it is we're thankful for. Everyone says "I'm thankful for my family, my friends, my life..." or some seriously dry and slightly revamped head-rehearsed version of the prayer.  This year it came to me and I said "I'm thankful for art, and experience." Everyone was silent and I blurted out "And fashion!!! Lets not forget that, dear God lets not forget fashion!" and everyone laughed.

God forbid we forget fashion! Please no!!! They might laugh, but to me, fashion is how I sense the world.  You'd never know it, but how people style themselves says everything about them.  The brands they buy, the way they wear their clothes and how they walk says more than they ever will and before they ever will (in most cases, there's always that one weirdo, the someone dressed as nothing.) Fashion has taught me of the past and where we are in it's repeating. It tells of where we have yet to go.  

So thank God for fashion, because there are so many other silly things I could be thankful for, but fashion has a lot of beautiful places to tell us, and wonderful secrets to hide.