The Little Black Dress

                                                 The little black dress

Sitting around feeling nostalgic I opened my laptop and started navigating through old pictures of me and my friends. The trip down the memory lane is always so overwhelming. All those beautiful ladies dressed up feeling their best for a sunny day out. But as I was going through old pictures of mine, there was something I noticed. Every friend of mine owned something we like to call the little black dress. I stopped to think about what was so special about it that no girl could do without it and I came to realize that it was the confidence attached to it that made women feel beautiful.

As history has it the black dress was brought into our closets by Coco Chanel. After their terribly high and uncomfortable yet totally gorgeous heels Coco Chanel added to a women’s life a best friend known as the little black dress. My father has never understood why a women needs to dress her best to feel her best. He says it’s all about what’s inside. Well I couldn't agree and disagree more. Yes I feel confidence is a state of mind. But I also feel that no men will ever understand our urge to put on our best clothes and walk out feeling like a queen. They would never understand our endless shopping sprees. They would never understand why we have to buy something similar to what we already own. They would never understand why sales are the only events that make our menstrual cramps go away. And finally they would never understand our obsession with the colour black.

The little black dress is not just a dress; it works as our best friend. It makes us feel confident on the day we feel utterly useless. It makes us feel beautiful on a bad break up day. It makes us feel thin after we finish an entire tub of ice cream mourning over why a certain dog had to die in a certain movie. We women are extremely emotional creatures that no man has ever understood. But history has it, you buy a little black dress for your woman and your relationship is going to last way longer than you imagined. Such is the power of the little black dress.

Some people think black is associated with mourning. Some feel it’s a really dark colour with darker meanings. I say hell no. Black is classy. Black is chic. Black is dangerous. Black is glamour. And black if for all. It does not discriminate women on the basis of their social status or their figure. Black is for all.

Its something we women cant do without, never have been able to. Santé, to all the women out there with their little black dress. I called my girls and planned a night out with our little black dresses. Time to feel young, vibrant, confident and beautiful.