Dress For Success - Do The Daniel

As 2018 comes to it’s final few months and I prepare for the next chapter for the #DoTheDaniel team, I am reminded that so many inspiring and powerful women have helped to shape and share this around the world. With some pretty incredible events coming in the month of November, I always find it important to celebrate the ones that I want you to come along with us to. Every year since launching the blog with some of the most inspiring women I know, we have attended and supported Dress for Success Toronto in their endeavour to help the world be a little brighter. Consider the current climate, I feel like now more than ever, it’s important to celebrate the women who inspire us. And you can do just that with us on November 14th right here in Toronto! Continue reading “Who Run The World?”

Growing up with a working mom made every Monday morning memorable. After a weekend of jeans and laundry and sneakers and vacuuming, my Mom would start her daily workweek ritual of choosing her business clothes, putting on makeup in front of her mirror, doing her hair (I remember exactly what blowing out her bangs entailed) and picking her heels and matching purse. I would sit at the door of her room, waiting to see if she chose the blue suit with a white blouse, or the paisley skirt with pantyhose and a cardigan, or the black pumps with the red cotton dress. My favourite top of course was the embezzled blouse with large rhinestones across the neckline. I was mesmerized. My mom had the most beautiful strawberry blonde hair, which she would brush and wear loose, or blow out in the timely fashion of the early nineties. I would wait for the moment she passed by, her perfume wafting over me, remembering that she would smell as nice as she looked.

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