My pal Jenn recently noted, '[Your new plaid, ruffley shirt] reminds me of something that you might see Temple Grandin (author, livestock handling facility designer, Autism spokesperson, and all around brilliant and insightful lady) wearing. Yours is probably cuter and has less horses on it, though.' And Jenn is SPOT ON.
Dr. Grandin was on NPR this afternoon, as oft she is, and, like always, she was fucking sweet. Excuse my language. Among other things, she's a PhD in Animal Science and has worked for years, on behalf of animal welfare, to make slaughterhouses and the process of slaughtering livestock a whole heck a lot more humane. A vegetarian, the chief reason I don't eat animals is the heinous, heinous meat industry in the United States. I've known enough folks who have been abused by the meatpacking plants in Chicago that I want nothing to do with industrialized animal products. While Temple Grandin comes from a very different place than I, I admire so much of what she's done for animals and for her field.
AND, I admire the shit out of her wardrobe.
Wikipedia says, 'She has to wear comfortable clothes to counteract her sensory integration dysfunction' as a justification for her baggy-black-jeans-slash-Western-horse-shirt combos. As it were, I think she just has a KILLER sense of style. Her shirting choices are just COMPLETELY INSANE. IN. SANE. (As are these pictures!)
This shot below is my favorite. Sigh. That is the sort of shirt I'd probably wear every, single day forever and ever until it is so dirty that I'd have to throw it out.
This's also a pretty sweet picture from the new HBO documentary. I mean, I think Claire Danes looks pretty good in it. But, seriously, Temple Grandin herself is the epitome of cool.
I may have just blown any stret cred that I had by admitting this, but I don't care. I just love her and her shirts so much.
Addendum: And WHAT are those scarves? HOW did I fail to mention them? Omg.
4 comments:
This post made me really happy. I just love her. Almost as much as I adore Oliver Sacks...which is saying A LOT! But they seem to adore each other so it all works out!
The HBO documentary was excellent in my opinion. Clare Danes did a superb job of making her character realistic without being over the top. I laughed, I cried, I LOVED IT.
She says in her book that I'm currently reading that she used to wear this blue jumpsuit to work every day. Her boss at the magazine she was writing for had someone take her out to buy those awesome shirts, scarves, and pants for the first time.
I'll end my comment with this amazing quote from an article about the movie: “I have to remind myself not to get a big head,” she says. “You know what happens. Just look at statues of famous people; they all have pigeon poop on them.”
Jenn, I like it when you get a kick out of things! And, ALSO, I LIKE THAT QUOTE. Shit. She is awesome.
I like that you like when I get excited about things. Even when those things are "accomplishments by people with autism" and "brilliant neurologists". That's why we're friends...because we can appreciate the things we each get pumped about!
I heart friendship with you, Jenn!
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