You can buy graduation dresses from a variety of sources, including brick-and-mortar retailers, online stores, specialty boutiques, department stores, secondhand shops, and even custom dressmakers. Each option offers its own advantages, such as convenience, unique styles, affordability, or custom fit...
SHEIN often has cute summer dresses starting as low as $10, but if you’re willing to spend $30 or more you can get some absolutely gorgeous special occasion dresses for events, proms, weddings as well! For me,SHEINis hands down the best place to shop for summer dresses. They have sup...
Another great feature about African print skirts is that you can get them asmaxi,midi,pencil, andmini skirts… you see where I’m going with this! So you can wear them to the club, cocktail parties, and special events like wedding ceremonies, graduation day, prom, and even church! How ...
She made it her mission to force me to go to prom in a tuxedo and then later to wear a black graduation gown “like the rest of the boys” at graduation. After taunting me like a child from any of my elementary schools, she claimed that I was going to embarrass myself and lose if...
When I first moved to Haiti I was under the impression that I needed to wear a skirt all the time. The organization I originally traveled with had me believing all the crazy things. It was a funny belief that Haitians were old-school Africans and all wore tribal dresses, when in reality...
the inside of the bathroom door, the outside of the d@mn motion-detector trash can lid and motion-detector sink troughs. Oh yeah… and I also “didn’t make it” all over my new, never-been-worn maternity outfit and somehow (to this day I’m not really sure how I managed this)...
the child I never had. I thought about how my mother would never get to make little dresses for a real daughter of mine. That daughter might play with my old dolls and destroy them. Or she might shun them for the newer dolls that are softer and do more things. Maybe she wouldn’t ...
The one silver lining for me was the knowledge that my friends had been planning on getting a car soon. However, they recently told me that they don't plan to get a car because they have done pretty well without one so far. I can't help but think I have factored into tha...
After graduation I lived in various places – Austin, Texas and California are the ones that count, the places in the world that feel like home. I moved back to Pennsylvania in 2009 for my elderly parents. I am still here. I live in the home I inherited from my parents, that I own...
For fresh air and maskless faces? For seeing loved ones and finally going places? Before I start singing along to my own post-quarantine country song, I need to express how thankful I am. And can we please talk about hugs? Who else missed hugs? I think I’ve hugged every person I kn...