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Big black sunglasses and strappy sandals on the Isle of Capri.
Hiking boots or horseback into the wild.
Sleeping in a tepee under a full moon.
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Essays
Double Decker Dreams
Stacy Appel ................................................................................... 11
Photography Molly Harrell Chris Thelen
The In-Between
Cynthia Briggs................................................................................ 13 Talking Stock
Julie Hammonds.......................................................................... 14
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Letter from the Publisher.......................................................... 6
Letter from the Editor................................................................ 6 Women control 2/3 of the nation’s disposable income.
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THE UNITED SKIRTS OF AMERICA
The United Skirts of America was founded on the blood, sweat and estrogen of our foremothers, who won us the freedom to choose...to break The Rules, to wear combat boots or high COVER ARTIST
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Ashley Barron
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Ashley is a big fan of paper.
to form our own
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rock groups instead
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of being groupies, to
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Ontario, Ashley now lives
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in Toronto. She graduated
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bigger, to have the
illustrator ever since.
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FROM THE PUBLISHER
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Last month, I had the chance to hear Billie Jean King talk about her journey to empower women while she was in Charleston for the Family Circle Cup tennis tournament. I’m the same age as King, and I was just discovering feminism when she defeated Bobby Riggs in one of the greatest moments in sports history— the Battle of the Sexes in 1973. It’s hard to overstate what that moment meant to women then. Ms. Magazine had been launched the year before, and it was a stirring, optimistic time to be a woman simply because change was in the air. All of the restrictive assumptions I grew up with about a woman’s role were being blown apart, and my personal journey was simply a microcosm of the historic one taking place on the national stage. As inspiring as it was to celebrate the journey of the women who revolutionized women’s tennis, I doubt I was the only woman to consider the irony of learning that same week that Augusta National Golf Club had not awarded membership to Virginia Rometty, the first female CEO of IBM, as was customary for the corporate sponsor of the Masters Tournament. Four of Ms. Rometty’s predecessors had been admitted during their tenure with the company, but it was her XX DNA that barred the door this time. Although Billy Payne, chairman of Augusta National, insists that because the club is private, their membership is not open to outside discussion, it was a reminder that although we’ve come a long way, baby, the journey is far from complete. In Congress, women hold less than 17 percent of the seats—73 of 435 in the House and 17 of 100 in the Senate—and only a tiny percentage of major American corporations have women CEOs. In the future, it will be up to our brave daughters and granddaughters to take a swing at outmoded, exclusionary traditions that are designed to put us back in our place—a place we left behind decades ago.
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I realized I realized recently recently thatthat many many of the of the items items on my on my wish wish list list for the for the future future are are things things I could I could do right do right now. now.
I postpone, I postpone, proscrastinate proscrastinate andand putput off pleasure off pleasure
Instead, Instead,
while while I dig I dig intointo my my well-worn well-worn pedestrian pedestrian path path
day day after after day day after after day. day.
There’s There’s always always a leak a leak in the in the roof, roof, a bill a bill to pay, to pay, a reason a reason to be to cautious. be cautious.
pack pack a bag, a bag, locklock the the door door behind behind me me andand set set off into off into into into the the unknown, unknown, likelike the the usually usually sensible sensible Mole Mole in my in my favorite favorite book, book,
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I found I found this this reproduction reproduction Buddha Buddha headhead on aon weekend a weekend trip trip to Beaufort, to Beaufort, SC. It SC. was It was one one of those of those love-at-fi love-at-fi rst- rstsightsight purchases, purchases, the kind the kind I never I never regret. regret.
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My Skirt My Skirt the Rules the Rules bracelet bracelet fromfrom KateKate Spade Spade reminds reminds me not me not to become to become too too middle-of-the-road. middle-of-the-road.
Nikki Nikki Hardin Hardin is the is founder the founder and and publisher publisher of skirt! of skirt! magazine. magazine. She She blogs blogs at fridaville.com. at fridaville.com.
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