On Being Female and Loving It (Subtitle: Modest, feminine clothing)

I love being a female. Now I am not too girly, girly since I have always lived in the Northwest and carry a bit of the pioneer women in me. I can't seem to keep my hands out of the garden or shoes on my feet for any length of time. I love flowers and fruit, sunshine and warm breezes, books and a fireplace, mist and the sea. Oregon's Cascade white mountains orient my directions of east and west (as long as I remember which side I am on) and I've lived and loved both sides of the range. I go to the ocean to breathe and renew, I work, grow and harvest in the valley, and I remember and spread my arms wide on the eastern side. What I'm trying to say, is that even though I live in a place very much influenced by the land, I find that who I am is simply built on that environment. I am a female with special gifts, calls and definitions really because I choose to be a female with all that is in me. I do not define this by glamour or becoming someone's object, but I define this by my gifts, strengths and yes, my weaknesses. Some people do not wish to be defined by anything, yet that in itself is a definition: not definable.

So while I am trying to sort out the reason I am blogging, I believe an important piece is to put down who I am and the gifts that I believe God has shared in my life. One of the first gifts He gave me is to be a female. Not that I believe one gender is better than the other, but uniquely different and blessed with so many different ways. This view may not be popular, but I do have my arguments well thought through and to just state my strongest opinion: I am tired of people telling me that being a man is better than being a woman. How do they say that? By saying that if I do not wish to be man like in dress and approach, that I am somehow shackled. Isn't that in itself rather degrading to women? The only way I can be good enough is to take on masculinity? So I will continue to be a female and enjoy it, not distain it.

Some of the great pieces of being a woman who sees herself feminine is the way she clothes herself, what she surrounds herself with and her interests. Not all of the links I will post will be solely for female, but they capture my attention and are worth noting and recording. Some of these I have used with great success and some I have only window shopped at.
Happy looking!



Shabby Apple
Kosher Casual
eshakti
Zadie B's on Facebook
Jade MacKenzie
Hydro Chic
Apostalic Clothing
Modern Modesty
Junees
Dainty Jewells
Down East Basics