Milicent loved dressing up. She loved looking glamorous. It made her happy. The ways in which women are pressured to look a certain way to attract men are abysmal. It took me years to realize that it was possible to want to look a certain way just for yourself, to want to dress up and wear pretty, fancy things because that’s just what you like. Every day that Milicent got dressed in something fabulous, she was high-fiving that little girl in San Simeon who was forced to wear heavy, draping clothes.
