PortaPocket Notebook
For the love of SPANX...what kind of message are we sending to society?
Living in this day and age, one cannot deny the success and influence of one of the most powerful and (financially) successful entrepreneurs of our time, Sara Blakely. The creator of SPANX has been lauded by Oprah, praised by the (then) First Lady, and given millions of women around the world a reason to feel more comfortable in their own skin. All of these are good things. And yet...
The irony is...if you really think about it... one main premise of SPANX is that it's built around the mindset that women should look a certain way to be attractive and acknowledged. While I have no problem if people want to wear these shapers if they choose to and if it makes them feel better about themselves, great! ...but should people feel any less worthy if they choose not to?
Empowering women (and men) is good. But should we be perpetuating the skewed societal view that women are objects and how they look is of utmost importance? It's not Sara's fault that our society values physical beauty over intangible qualities, but must we keep buying into the notion that that is our best asset?
How about you?
What do you think?
Photo Credit: Compfight.com (SPANX)
So... did you think you saw us on Shark Tank...?
Like so many others, we love the show. And watch it often. But when people ask us, "weren't you on that show...?" well... the answer is... that wasn't us. It was another company that overlaps a bit into the space of where we are...but not really.
And it's a company which pretty much has ceased business at this point. http://sharktanksuccess.blogspot.com/2012/12/partie-poche.html
We'd actually been called by producers for the show, and they liked PortaPocket a lot. So they asked us to apply, and then...
they said no.
And the next season, we tried out again.
And then...
they took on the other company.
And then we tried a third time and ...
no dice either.
All we got that last time was one of the ABC staff members running over to take a picture of THE LEG,
and of course a bunch of smiles / stares...
but that was it. ;/
*sigh*
Ah, well....what can you do. We're just going to keep going...
making solutions to the lack-of-usable-pockets-in-our-clothes problem,
and will continue to be here to help you...
help YOURSELF! ;)