Fashlete is just how it reads, the merging of fashionista with athlete. Tired of being put in a box, I wanted to write a blog from the point of view of being a woman who is both and everything in between. Just a few months ago a co-worker found out that I had taken a furniture making class about a year ago. He said, “Why did you take it? I can’t really see why, you’re a girly girl.” Wow, and then I told him how I had taken woodshop classes in junior high and loved it then. That’s always made me want to get back into the shop and work on something else. By the way, I made an awesome bench out of the most beautiful piece of African Mahogany wood. To prove my point even further that I wasn't solely this girly girl that he had pictured in his mind based on how I carried myself and how I dressed, I told him that last summer I had taken some surfing lessons to try to master the art of trying to keep upright on a moving and crashing wave. I didn’t do so well, but I learned a lot and I did manage to stand up in the rough Huntington Beach surf.
On the flip side six years ago I remember wearing exercise gear and I was asked if I worked out a lot and that I must be in the gym everyday. At that time I hardly ever worked out and I laughed at the thought of working out at the gym everyday. Fast forward to about two and a half years after that question was posed to me, and I don’t think I can picture my life without exercise.
Clothing definitely does define how we are perceived, and the snap judgments people make about us. You can forget the thought that people don’t judge you by the way you dress because they do. So this blog is about defying the perceived and showing that the whole of a person encompasses a lot more than what we look like on the outside. Welcome to Fashlete!
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