Dress A Day, Day 18: Defiance

Sunday, May 23

Oh this one. I do believe I've had it since my Berkeley days (mid 90's), got it at one of the second hand shops on Telegraph Ave right around the time I started dancing seriously. I've worn it a lot or hardly at all at various points, almost always with jeans underneath. It's watched me shift shapes countless times - physically, geographically and metaphysically - and has managed to defy the closet pogroms that tend to accompany said shifts. If I saw it on a store rack today I don't know that I'd take a second look, but on my body it is a secret talisman, a reminder of my own defiance that has kept me dancing all these years.