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| Mrs Dolapo Osinbajo at the Event |
I love jackets, blazers, whatever style I can rock that will
give me the Olivia Pope type of look. Just a few days ago, I was thinking about
my love for clean and sharp blazers and I said to myself. ‘One day, I will be
able to spend more than N20,000 on a piece of blazer and I won’t even feel it in
my purse.
Just like me, an average girl have something she can spend
her last kobo on, it may be shoes, designer hand bags, expensive cologne, clothes, wig, make up kits, the list goes on. These
things, I call them vanity, a vanity that only a few have learnt to master. Let
me ask you, why will a girl, a student use the last money in her account to buy
a Brazilian wig when she is yet to pay for her textbooks? Why will anyone use
her last cash to pay for a handbag simply because she thinks it is cute only to start going from door to door begging
for food to eat (we’ve all had such annoying neighbor right? You are asking
me? I don’t know too, I don’t have answers to every question LOL.
Just today, the beautiful wife of the Vice President of Nigeria,
Mrs Dolapo Osinbajo attended a Runway Jazz event in a beautiful attire
that cost just N1800, that is about $4, and she looked stunning, she could have
told us the Ankara cost about N20, 000 and we would have believed her. Does she
have more expensive clothes in her wardrobe? Of course, Mrs Osinbajo must have
clothes that are more expensive in numbers, she is the wife of the Vice
President of Nigeria for God’s sake and she is not
even a sit-at-home-woman. So what should we learn from her ‘show of modesty?’
Freedom! Yes, freedom. The truth is, a lot of women are slaves to
fashion, the desire to appear expensive all the time. The desire to be the most
beautiful and expensive can become so addicting that a mother can use the money
meant to feed her children to buy the latest wig in town. But is this really
needful? I can remember a joke on a Steve Harvey ‘s show on women’s attitude to
fashion, he said no matter how many clothes a woman have in her wardrobe, she
will still complain of not having something to wear. I have confirmed this to
be true. I have seen women whose closets are filled with clothes and yet
complain everyday of not having something to wear. The desire to have more, to
own all will always be there, but we must tame it.
If all you can afford at the moment is a gown that is worth N5000, go for
it. That very expensive suit looks good on the mannequin, but it is not a must
that you have it, at least not now that you can’t afford it, you can wear something cheaper to work and still look sharp
and professional. You have to attend that family party and all you are thinking
about is how to ‘oppress’ people with your imported lace material and Prada hand back but you don’t need to oppress anyone, rather, you can impress us even with the not so
expensive Ankara gown like Mrs Osinbajo.
Be free like Mrs Osinbajo, kill the desire to be expensive all the time
even when it is not convenient. You may not be satisfied with what is in your
closet at the moment, but you can still rock with what you have, Mrs Osinbajo
rocked in that outfit. Fashion is a good business, you need to invest into
looking good, but fashion is fun when you are free to wear whatever you want.
Go out there and control fashion, don’t allow fashion to control you.
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