As every year, magazines and television are swamping us with advertising campaigns to launch the Spring fashion.

According to our biggest store suggestions (taking advantage of a successful movie), all of us are going to be “Pretty Women” next season.

Being a pretty person is always an interesting plan but, thinking about it, I realize that there are many questions that I can’t answer.

Examples:

How will my soft colour dresses (made of natural fibres) look after my daily subway trips?

Where will I get time enough to hand wash and iron these delicate clothes?

Where will I leave my foulard, white gloves and broad straw hat while I teach History?

How many pairs of cream silk tights will I need to wear in a ten hours working day?

And, how can I afford all of it with my teacher’s salary?

Terrible isn’t it? But it is not the worst. Let’s continue:

How will I hide my pale cheeks and the rings under my eyes, at seven o’clock in the morning, without the help of a make up?

And what can I do if I am not (like Julia Roberts is) tall, red-haired, slim, beautiful… and with long legs?

But if you are thinking I am giving up the idea of being a “Spring Pretty Woman”, you are very mistaken.

As every woman I have already looked like a nun, a wamp, a robot, a teenager, a princess… everything that designers have planned. Why don’t try once again?

In my opinion if you are not a fashion slave, but a person who uses fashion in order to put some different in your life, fashion is like an amusing game...

And paraphrasing Bruce Springsteen you can always say:

“That’s not me baby, that’s just another disguise”.