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Meet Hassanah! Extraordinary mom and school auction queen…

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Sporty Chic – Day 9 

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Today’s “Proust Fashion Questionnaire” has been completed by my friend, Hassanah.  Hassanah has two kids, Sebastian, 10, and Elliott, 7, and they are both in the same 3rd and 1st grade classes as my kids –  so it’s a good thing Hassanah and I like each other because we are going to be spending years and years of mom moments together.

Have you ever met one of those moms who is always helping at school, is totally prepared for all school events with potluck in hand and has the inside track on all the best school gossip?  Oh, and she can also sew anything, I mean, anything.  Check out her Halloween costumes –

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Before you start to hate her, let me just tell you that she’s really nice.  That’s Hassanah.

Every year our little school has an auction to you know, keep the lights on and buy a few poles to keep the building from crumbling around our heads (Thanks No Child Left Behind!) — and Hassanah helps raise about forty thousand dollars a year.  She starts out all bright-eyed in January with her cute pamplets and enthusiastic signs (Got a great donation item? We’d love to have it!), by February Hassanah’s not really sleeping and by the time the auction is over Hassanah has a deep, horrible cough that could rival any transient person living under a bridge with undiagnosed tuberculosis.  Hassanah swears that she’ll never, ever do the auction again, but then the next year rolls around and there she is with her big smile and her colorful auction flyers.  And why?  Because Hassanah cares.  She’s also really funny and beautiful.  Here’s a woman that wears keys around her neck so she won’t lose them — and somehow she makes it work.  But beneath the t-shirt and jeans and whatever box of things she’s carrying into the school, make no mistake, Hassanah is a bombshell.

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“The Proust Fashion Questionnaire”  – Hassanah… 

What is your greatest fashion fear?

Looking like an idiot (although I think the harder you run from something, the more it creeps up on you!!). Hey Harry, pass me that invisibility cloak will ya?!?!

Which historical fashion figure do you most identify with?

I don’t really have one. I just LOVE dresses – all kinds! Wedding dresses, ball gowns, party dresses, sundresses… I appreciate them from all eras. Since I have a basic knowledge of sewing, I totally appreciate all the work that goes into fancy dresses from beautiful seams, to tucks, to beading and the like. I love ornate and simple dresses.

What are you wearing in perfect fashion happiness?

My wedding dress. It was a gorgeous, simple A-line dress with pretty embroidery on it. It suited me and was just unusual enough to not make the “worst dressed list.” lol

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What physical trait do you most deplore in yourself?

There are so many…probably my moles and my broad shoulders. I look like a linebacker. You can tell I come from strong, German stock!

On what occasion do you lie about your appearance?

Oh, on the driver’s license!

What is your greatest fashion regret?

NOT appreciating the body I had in high school!

What outfit were you the most happiest in?

My wedding dress, this really pretty floral sundress that I just loved and my sports uniforms. My wedding dress because I really loved it and it was different. Oh, yah and the fact that I WAS getting married! lol I chose the sundress because I felt like a movie star when I wore it. And my uniforms because I loved playing sports!

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What is your most treasured fashion possession? 

Currently my jewelry and my poppy print raincoat. The jewelry because who doesn’t love sparkly things? (Not that I have a lot of stuff, but it is fun to change out earrings and such.) The poppy print raincoat, because how can you be upset in the rain when you are covered in poppies! It makes everyone smile.

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

Oh dear God, do we have all day? Just ONE thing??? Body size. While I do have an hourglass figure, the sands of time are stacking up sand bags in all the wrong places! The hours are getting long my friends, very long.

What is your most marked physical characteristic?

Probably the ta-tas. They arrive 5 minutes before I do-I wish I could leave them home.

What type of clothing do you most like to see on a man?

A kilt! They are so sexy.

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What type of clothing do you most like to see on a woman?

Classy dresses – nothing that shows t-n-a.

Who are your fashion heroes in real life?

Hmmm, this took me a long time to answer. I don’t really think I have a “hero” in the sense of the word but as I was thinking of fashion moments, I see that I tend to like the style of the 1950-60’s and love some of the things that were happening there…..I LOVE Grace Kelly’s wedding dress, Jackie O’s style, Audrey Hepburn’s style. But in modern day, I appreciate Princess Diana in her later years, Michelle Obama, Kate Middleton (although not all of her stuff, but she always looks good), Sarah Jessica Parker, I love the wedding dress line from Claire Pettibone…

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What fashion trend have you most disliked?

The whole bike shorts as regular day wear (think end of the 80’s), the grunge trend, anything Lady Gaga wears (I secretly call her Lady Gag-Gag)… I mean seriously, if I want shock factor I just shuffle my feet around on the carpet and touch one of my kids.

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What is your fashion motto?

Hmmmm, this was another hard question. But then I remembered this…in high school, my French teacher said that young girls in France are taught to find one thing that they love about themselves and always accentuate it so that they are always happy with at least one thing about their appearance. So wear red lipstick if you love your lips, and so on. I am not sure if this is true, but I believed it to be true. So, I try and “play up” my lips with lip gloss and/or my fingernails with nail polish.

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