Hunger Has Eyes - Organic Cotton T-Shirt

“Elegance is always in style for men.

There are all different kinds of elegance.

It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt.”

— Donatella Versace

The Oxford dictionary defines elegance as “the quality of being graceful and stylish in appearance or manner.” Its helpful example of the word in its “natural” habitat reads: "A slender woman with grace and elegance." Let’s unpack that.

Is slenderness a requirement for grace, elegance, or womanhood? No. But it rules a certain subtype of the three with an emaciated iron fist: The version that exists only in the minds of men and the women who’ve internalized their misogyny.

Disclaimer: We are not victim-blaming. We’re painfully familiar with the dark underworld of eating disorders and the demons that wreak havoc there. It’s time to put them under the microscope for a change.

Women are constantly scrutinized. Think Amazing Amy’s “cool girl” monologue from Gone Girl. Homicidal rage and other character flaws aside, she was onto something. As girls at school and women at work, we’re always pressured into performing.

Philosopher Judith Butler coined the term “performativity” to talk about the characteristics we’re conditioned to embody in order to be perceived as woman or man. But the performance of femininity is particularly exhausting. The expectations of how we must look, act, and think as women are omnipresent. In performing femininity – the tweezing, the smiling, the politeness, the non-functionality of our clothing – we lose hours of our precious time and energy.

There’s nothing wrong with being feminine, or even hyperfeminine, if that’s what you’re into. Some women are more fae than witch. What isn’t okay is expecting all women to feel the same way you do. The worst part of performative femininity is how it turns women against each other.

It bases a woman’s self-worth on her ability to comply with societal constructs even when that’s not who she really is. There’s no better or more obvious example of this than the daily struggle of applying a full face of makeup and twisting your hair into submission every morning. And don’t even get us started on the rest …

There’s so much more to being a woman than meets the eye. Real femininity has nothing to do with superficial stereotypes or artificial standards. Femininity is a spectrum, and you’re the only one who can determine where you feel most comfortable.

So love the skin you’re in, and own your individuality, regardless of what anybody else has to say about it. Join The Sisterhood of the Vanishing Fucks with our plain-as-day, white organic cotton T-shirt with a badass poem on it.

*And the witch lived happily ever after in her own dreamhouse, on her own land, with her own money, and she wore all kinds of weird shit because it made her happy, and she had absolutely no fucks to give because she was her own woman. The End.*

· 100% organic, ring-spun, combed cotton

· Fitted style

· Set-in sleeve

· Ribbed collar

· Sewn-in label

· Reinforced stitching

· Light fabric (4.57 oz/yd²) (155 g/m²)

· Grown without pesticides, herbicides, or artificial chemical fertilizers

Care Instructions:

1. Machine wash with cold water (up to 30°C or 90°F)

2. Do not bleach or tumble dry

3. Steam or dry-iron with low heat (up to 148°C or 300°F)

4. Do not dry-clean