Betsy's review
It's So You: 35 Women Write About Personal Expression Through Fashion and Style by Michelle Tea
As this was not only the latest from Michelle Tea but also an anthology of my sort of smart ladies writing about clothes and style, and I am a longtime feminist diy-fashionista/thrifter of a slightly obsessive order, I picked it up immediately. Aside from a few essays concerning plastic surgery whose inclusion was a bit of a stretch and whose writing quality was more questionable than others, it was really enjoyable. It dragged in the middle, and it definitely could have been shorter. But it included many favorite movement rockstars (like Mary Christmas and Kate Bornstein and Trina Robbins and Ali Liebegott) among lots of other unfamiliar writers, and overall managed to keep a tone of humorous and reverent descriptiveness while throwing a bone to the feminist undertones threaded through the way we as crafty/stylish ladies present ourselves. Best read in installments, like over a month or two, while you're in need of inspiration and/or dreaming of your next sewing project.
