Animal Caretaker Chic
My husband handed me the lifestyle section of our local newspaper with a mischievous grin. “Here’s something that’s right up your alley,” he said, and sure enough, he was right. The headline read: “Farmgirl Punk Look Hits Paris Runways! Models Don Barnyard Inspired Designs.” I had a good laugh, thinking that this could be my one and only shot at being on the cutting edge of fashion. What a relief for a hard working, cage cleaning, chinnie caretaker! Why, I could have my coveralls and be a fashion plate, too. Chinchilla mom meets Cosmo –this fad definitely had possibilities.
Unfortunately, the punk farmgirl look didn’t pan out, as it hasn’t been mentioned in the news again, and I certainly haven’t seen much evidence of it at the malls. Just my luck that it didn’t catch fire, but I do often think of it in the midst of cage cleaning or busting up a bale of hay, and it always makes me smile. Who would have thought that designers would dip into the agricultural scene for haute couture inspiration? Now when I look at all the smudges and stains on my jeans after a day of working in the chin room, I wonder exactly just what type of designer statement that I could lay claim to here. My shirts are a roadmap of what my day has been like with the chins. Cliff has often stopped me at the front door, just as I’m running out of the house to do a quick errand after chores. He’ll look at my shirt and say, “Who’ve you got on the Sulfa drug?”(tell-tale pink stains) or even worse yet, ”Umm, who’s got soft poos?”(that one sends me scuttling back into the house to change fast!). So I always try to scan myself before I go out in public – that is, unless I’m going to my vet’s, whose staff tends to understand the carefree, stain-splashed animal lover look.
There is one garment that I wear alot doing chores that could possibly make it in the fashion world, and that’s my coveralls. All those wonderful pockets, a non-binding waist, and they’re kind of cute, too (at least when they’re clean!). Plus, didn’t I see Paris Hilton in a pair of those? Which goes to show – one can be chic, without even trying.
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