Winter wear
For me winter has momentarily provided a welcome distraction from blogging about politics and all ruminations about the bad and the ugly of the usual suspects who have made vows that they will not preside over a bountiful Zimbabwe.
I am not a fashionista and will not claim any aptitude or taste in choosing appropriate wardrobe for anybody including myself no matter the season. But the coming of winter always seems to bring the worst in folks who stick to that dictum that they dress because they MUST not because they WANT to.
In any case, not many here can afford the luxury of picking the kind of clothes they would want or desire had they been afforded the opportunity by their economic circumstances to stash the cash for that cold day.
I saw the other day a woman obviously trying to beat the cold and I could not but wonder rather aloud what other females would have to say about it if at all they would have bothered considering they also would have been busy trying to keep the cold at bay – minding of course their sense of humour.
She wore a heavy sweater and beneath the sweater protruded what would have been a dress, then beneath that dress protruded what looked like a petticoat, beneath the petticoat came a long to cover her legs up to the ankles.
Forgive me but this was my first time since ages ago that I saw a petticoat extending under a dress for all to see. And I thought to myself “isn’t female underwear (any underwear) supposed to remain unseen?”
No contest about men, they could be just as fashion “unsavvy” but one has to ask if winter is an excuse to parade fashion tastes that would put one in front of the dress taste firing squad, but then of course Zimbabweans have long been reduced in the past 20-something years to live lives they previously looked down upon with utmost disdain.
I figure it only gives ammunition to the tourists and pressmen and women who visit this part of the world from outerspace about how bad it has become for us so much that we cannot afford to decently cover our butts!
But then it is this winter which for those with a sharp eye has exposed how bad stretched incomes here have become so one has to ask if food, CLOTHES and shelter are still up there as taught in kindergarten as Man and Woman’s basic needs.