It Will Never Be Okay

Our friend Hannah McKnight offers some more good advice:

Anyone can wear a skirt. Anyone can paint their nails, even if it’s tricky to paint your right hand with your left hand. Clothes don’t know that society has placed expectations and norms on who can wear them. If it fits, you can wear it....

My point is that even if the newspapers all over the world printed a headline that read “It’s Okay to Wear Whatever You Want”, it’s still not going to be “okay”. It’s not “okay” for me to wear whatever I want. But that’s fine, I don’t need permission from anyone when it comes to something like clothing. Even if that headline was published, there will always be the change someone will laugh, point or threaten us whether we are rocking those stilettos or simply glaming up our eyes with a little mascara.

We need to stop waiting for permission. We need to stop waiting for some authority to “let” us do what we want and wear what we want. It will never come. It will never be okay.

But it TOTALLY is.