My Fair Lady

We all love a rags to riches story, but to be honest and with no disrespect intended toward Audrey Hepburn, My Fair Lady is one of my least favorite musicals.  

The costumes were divine, the music was brilliant, and Audrey always brings it, but that wasn't my trouble.  My distaste for it actually originated with Pygmailon and Galatea, the original Greek myth in which a man who hates women (specifically the women of his day) and decides to live alone and remain unmarried.  He then creates a sculpture of the perfect woman and then falls in love with her....yeah, the sculpture!

The whole story, My Fair Lady included, really seemed to reduce women to something one dimensional.  Does the professor actually love Eliza Dolittle, or does he merely love the image of a woman he's created?  It's hard to tell, because he treats her terribly.  He's grumpy, I get it, that's no excuse.

One thing I've worked for in my own life and something I try to impress here on the blog is that the way you dress should reflect you--the real you--not who you or anyone else thinks you should be.  If you dress to please others, you are reducing yourself to something far less than you are.

Dressing and behaving in a way that pleases others, won't bring you joy and unfortunately, the people who seem to like you really don't because they don't know the real you.  It's better to be yourself and yes, some people won't like it.  Tough.  But there will be people who do like you and love you for who you really are.  The pressure's off.  You can relax and feel safe with them because you were brave enough to be honest with the world and be yourself.  And that makes you the fairest of them all.

Shopping Info: Top from Shein, skirt from Chicwish, Sweater from ModCloth, flats from ThredUp