Wannabes

I hate wannabe’s.  You know them.  They are the ones flashing fashion that they can’t afford.  The ones wearing their original designs with thread hanging everywhere. They are the ones you see selling clothes out of the trunks of their cars.  They’re cowards.  They have no real plan for actually competing in the market where they can do the most good…to set up an actual boutique or department store, whereby, they can create jobs and use the calling God has put on them to make an impact in the fashion retail industry.  A Christian based department store is possible.  J.C. Penney is one and Hobby Lobby is another.  Believe me.  If God gave you the dream to sell clothes He did not intend for it to be out of the trunk of a car.  That might be the only way you can start out but to still be operating that way after five years is ridiculous.  You get no respect from those of us who have done what it takes to overcome obstacles to reach the vision God showed us.  It’s not easy, but it is possible.

Wannabes.  They are the ones who have to be noticed for wearing the latest and greatest fashions trends.  They are the ladies who just recently discovered and wear St. John Knits or Burberry (which have been around since the beginning of time, it seems, because the labels are so old) and think they have discovered new designer labels.  They are the one’s who wear their vanity on their sleeves and won’t sit next to or associate with women who are fashionably beneath them.  Wannabe’s are people who want to be heralded as the guru’s of fashion but have never studied fashion evolution.  You know the one’s I mean.  They are the ones who condemn you to hell if you don’t dress according to their denomination’s fashion dictates.  They tell you that a woman shouldn’t wear men’s clothing only, because they have never studied Genesis. God designed Adam and Eve the same thing to wear…Tunics of skins.  The last time I looked a tunic didn’t have legs!   I guess Adam should have told God there was no way he was going to wear that dress.  Eve should have said, uh-uh God.  Don’t you give me the same style Adam is wearing.  Don’t you know that will send me to Hell?   Fashion wannabe’s do irreparable damage from the pulpit.  Wannabes are those who have been called by God into the fashion design industry and  are simply too lazy and too arrogant to go to school and study their trade.  They would rather “boot leg.”

I frequently meet wannabes when I am producing a fashion show or laying out a fashion concept   They challenge me behind the scenes and sometimes to my face, because they are sure they are more fashionable than I am.  I feel sorry for them.  When you are a wannabe, you have to work too hard to convince others.  When you are something you don’t have to try be, you already are.  They never stop to think why I get paid for this and they don’t.  I didn’t have this career handed to me on a silver platter. Truly, many are called but few are chosen. They were not around when I paid with blood, sweat, and tears, and tuition, to get here.  Nights of staying up, honing my trade when no one was paying me. God was the only one who saw my diligence.  At the time that I was making my mark on the fashion retail industry, I got married, was having babies (3) and a major volunteer at my church.    I was able to do this in a city I had relocated to with no initial family.  When you don’t have a support system, you have to believe in yourself.  My goal was never to be the best, but to do it right.  In that, I became one of the best Fashion Advertising minds in the country.  Even in the world.  I say this most humbly, but when the biggest names in retail put billions of dollars on the line, they want the best and the brightest talents on the advertising team.  Trust me.  They are not calling in the “B” list.