11/09/2023
I grew up watching career women in skirts and sneakers.
I grew up in DC. Women who went to work had to ride public transportation and the train. It wasn’t a style. It was out of obligation.
It was because walking for miles in heels just didn’t make any sense at all. So they would have a bag for their lunch and a bag for their shoes.
I remember going to work with my Aunt one day. She worked for an attorney. Sat right outside his big office. I had a little chair behind her with my fake typewriter.
She would bend down and take off her all-black puma classics. She would then take off the matching ankle socks to expose her feet covered in hosiery. She wore a sheer black that had the line up the back with the reinforced toe.
Them out of her bag, she would pull out these black patent leather, 3 inch heels. She would grab her shoe horn and gently slide these shoes on her feet. Sit up, adjust her clothes(her crown really) and give me a wink and briskly walk into his office.
She was the most fabulous woman I had ever seen. How easily she transitioned from the outside world to in that elegant office. She was so poised and graceful with it. They way should would adjust her body after this exercise and wink at me like, “you’re next.”
Black women have been THEE TRANSITION!!!
Puma isn’t JUST a brand for me, it’s a part of my journey into womanhood. The best parts. They give off a different kind of worthiness, transition and elegance that made me realize the brand understood the lengths women go through in DC just to get to work.
Now whether that was true or not, I knew this is what I was telling myself as a pre-teen.
One day, I’ll have my own Puma Collab for my DC Girls! But for now the RiRicollab is masterful.
To my DC girls who catch the blue line to work.
