#adressaday

[raheema30]

We all know I love me some dresses. It's partially my upbringing, the way I only saw mom in pants once while growing up. It's partially my self image as a size 18 woman down to a size 10-12 I think women with a little shape look better in a dress. It's partially religion, although I wear pants occasionally I feel the skin the Most High God gave me was made to wear a garment that ebbs and flows like His mercy and grace. Sooo today is #nationaldressday👗 and I have thrown together a few of my favorites. .. Truth be told there is not enough room to really show all of my faves, so for this #MelaninMonday I just recapped a few❤️NOTHING makes me feel more feminine, my most girly best than and beautiful and vibrant nice fitting #dress 💋 (see what I did there?) I am after all a laaaady lol Never stop striving to be #great🙌🏾 All praise to The Most High. #BlessUp🙏🏾 #major🔑alert #BlackGirlMagic #adressaday #DimplesNStuff #Dimples #Greatness #NaturalHair #TribeOfJudah #Judahite #BlackWomen #37LooksLikeThis #TerryAndSarahBabyGirl #blackgirlswithglasses #Melinated #AskAboutMe #BeingABlackGirlIsLit🔥 #IShowYouHow2DoThisSon #TwirlChickBye💃🏾

[carmencitab]

#mmmay18 #day28 2 XXXL @costco @libertylondon #suzanna on sale for $14,99cnd = #refashioners2015 dress that will probably be worn until it distintegrates. #adressaday 🇨🇦 2 chemises XXXL de chez Costco en Liberty Suzanna en solde à $14,99cnd = une robe pour les Refashioners 2015 portée jusqu’à ce qu’elle tombe en ruine! #unerobeparjour https://ift.tt/2LDFoLd

[ca-news-good-news]

Sew generous: 99-year-old woman makes a dress a day

Meet Lillian Weber, the 99-year-old woman who creates and sews a new dress every day for a girl she will never meet.

Weber gets to work on a new dress every morning at her home in the small town of Bettendorf, Iowa, to benefit Little Dresses for Africa, a Christian nonprofit agency that sends dresses overseas to impoverished girls in Africa. 

Weber first began her project in 2011 and has since made over 800 unique and one of a kind dresses. She is slowly reaching her goal of sewing 1,000 dresses by the time she turns 100.

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Even though Weber is fast at her craft, she always takes the time to make each dress extra special, personalizing each design with a pattern, appliqué or stitching detail. All in an effort to ensure that each girl that receives a dress feels beautiful.

And even though she is almost 100, Webber has no desire to stop or slowdown. 

“It is just what I like to do,” Weber said in a interview with Quad-City Times.

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“If I’m still able to do it I’ll continue all the way through. Because I know I’m making little girls happy. And that is very important to me,” Weber told NBC News.

After teaming up with Little Dresses for Africa, Weber has become their "Sewing Celebrity” and the organization has even created a Lillian shipping fund to help get dresses to the children.  

The website states that 100% of the donations in the Lillian Weber Fund will go to shipping the dresses directly to Africa.

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Little Dresses for Africa, founded in 2008, has received more than 2.5 million dresses from all 50 states, as well as the U.K., Ireland, Canada, Mexico and Australia, according to the Michigan-based organization's website.

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[angaeluna]

Prettiness.

"You Don't Have to Be Pretty. You don't oweprettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don't owe it to your mother, you don't owe it to your children, you don't owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked "female".

I'm not saying that you SHOULDN'T be pretty if you want to. (You don't owe UN-prettiness to feminism, in other words.) Pretty is pleasant, and fun, and satisfying, and makes people smile, often even at you. But in the hierarchy of importance, pretty stands several rungs down from happy, is way below healthy, and if done as a penance, or an obligation, can be so far away fromindependent that you may have to squint really hard to see it in the haze." 

[shopaholic-melody]

Yeah~~~my new maxi dress! So comfy in summer =////= #boylondon #adressaday

[raheema30]

This preppyish 🍫☀️ #MelaninMonday post is conceptually the essence of my life. Sh*t tends to get thrown my way and I'm constantly reminded of how blessed I am to be able to maneuver through it or make the best of it...kinda like how I basically ignored that the #DMV was getting 🌨️ today and had to rush to get dressed this morning 😰 Sooo my #OOTD is a t-shirt dress from @dorothyperkins and hasn't been worn since June (#adressaday #day11 post) but it's comfortable albeit a little form fitting and short. So throw a boyfriend cardigan from @target on top and some opaque black out tights and my fave new shoes (cutesy heeled Oxfords from Amazon) and its a wrap. Side note I have these Oxfords in black too.. they look good with everything!! This school girl style is working for me🙌🏾👸🏾💁🏾Have an amazing week lovies remember to always be #great 😘💖 #PraiseTMH #BlessUp🙏🏾 #BlackGirlMagic #DimplesNStuff #BrownGirlMagic #Dimples #Greatness #badandboujee #blackgirlswithglasses #NaturalHair #TribeOfJudah #Judahite #37LooksLikeThis #TerryAndSarahBabyGirl #DoubleNosePiercing #GirlsWithPiercings #Melaninaire #AskAboutMe #BeingABlackGirlIsLit🔥 #IShowYouHow2DoThisSon #TwirlChickBye💃🏾

[carmencitab]

#mmmay18 #day26 I didn’t post anything because I wore a repeat and made a linen @inthefolds #therushcutter Pictures are coming! #adressaday 🇨🇦 J’ai rien posté hier, j’ai porté une même robe et j’en ai fait une nouvelle. Photos tout bientôt. #unerobeparjour (idée nouveau produit @bohin_france 😉) https://ift.tt/2KYv3bz

[carmencitab]

#mmmay18 #day25 I’m passing the French sewing certificate and since I’m Canadian, my diplomas are worth nothing. Today, I passed the geography/history oral exam and for fun, I wore a map and talked about cotton. My dress is from @kristiann_boos @victorypatterns most excellent Boundless Style book the fabric is from @sewtimeless #adressaday 🇨🇦 Pour le CAP, je dois repasser toutes les épreuves. Comme aujourd’hui, c’était histoire/géo j’ai porté ma robe avec des mappemondes pour rigoler et j’ai parlé de coton. Ma robe est tiré du livre Boundless Style. #unerobeparjour https://ift.tt/2Lv1PSp

[carmencitab]

#mmmay18 #day21 My garden is a mess, it’s a choice, we have several hedgehogs living here. Today’s dress is brought to you by le Vicomte de Boisjoli who’s patterns are free. #adressaday Bra by @elisepatterns 🇨🇦 Mon jardin c’est le bordel mais c’est un choix, nous avons des hérissons. La robe est un patron gratuit trouvée sur le blog Essais et Erreurs il y a quelques années. #unerobeparjour Soutien-gorge Elise. https://ift.tt/2wZ4il5