By Deja Pseu

If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution. --Emma Goldman

Though according to scholars, this is a paraphrase of a part of one of her speeches rather than a direct quote, I've always adored the sentiment. What good is any endeavor if there is no fun, no joy in the outcome?

I approach style the same way. Expression of one's own style should be enjoyable. It's taken many of us years or even decades to break away from the rules we were handed by our parents (never mix patterns, patent leather is for dressy occasions only) only to find them replaced by a different set of rules set by our contemporaries. We can be dressed "right" per current fashion dictates, a friend... More...