Dear Jenny Humphrey...

I don't know a lot of people who make their own clothes. A lot of my mothers friends and my mother herself, complain that they don't have the time to do it while a lot of my friends complain that they don't know how. I usually make a lot of own clothes. I don't really know where I learned to do it, I remember picking up a pair of jeans that was way too big for me and taking in the seams carefully to make it smaller ( I swear Sri Lankan retail shops stock clothes exclusively for giants). I guess I am living proof for the saying " Necessity is the mother of all invention".
Today I stand at a proud size zero (at 5'-1" that's not anorexic), but I used to be much smaller until quite recently and stores stocked jeans that fit me in the children's section and which 16 year old wears jeans with lame cartoon figures embroidered to the back pockets???

I've come far since then, from altered jeans to blouses that no one can find anywhere. That's where Jenny Humphrey ( the Blair wannabe turned tyrant queen little sister from Gossip Girl) comes in. She made clothes for herself cause she wanted to blend in with the designer clad Upper East siders at her school. I do it regularly to stand out as an individual among the multitudes and I can't really afford the gorgeous designer stuff they flaunt at you on GG. I just love it when someone comes up to me and goes like " OhMiGod, your blouse is awesome where did you get it?, I soo want one!!" and then I get to go like " Actually you can't buy it from anywhere 'cause I made it (smug smile)". That's mean I know but, hey, it beats running into a forty  year old aunty wearing the same blouse you're wearing in a different colour. That reminds me, I have a hemline that isn't going to magically sew itself :-) .
I would like to end this post with a HUGE "XO XO" to little J Humphrey and Gossip Girl (for the ideas of course :-* ) and all of you who dare to stand out!!!