Your Unemployed Daughter

photo credit: ianus

As much as it sucks to stay home and wallow on the couch all day or force yourself to occasionally look at the computer and maybe press a few keys when you’re sick, it is way way way way worse to have to drag yourself out of bed, scan your grey visage in the mirror, groan, pour some orange juice down your throat (which cools the fiery depths temporarily), figure out what to wear that isn’t going to make your bones ache (sweats?), and struggle to midtown where your freelance ME gig awaits, and there are irritating Helvetica issues to be resolved.

Why am I sick, cruel world??? Why? (Imagine pounding fists and flailing appendages, except I’m too weak to do more than sit here and type, and maybe twitch my eye a little.)

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We all know what YUD wears when she’s—how shall we say?—got no place employmenty to go. But what about the rest of us 361,000? And further afield from that, in other cities and states and countries, what are the unemployed donning before they head out into the big, bad world each day … or, no judgments, when they make no departure from their tender abodes at all?

Lindsey Hunter Lopez: EMPLOYED

Thank heavens we are now in the occasionally manicured hands of YUD’s new Fashion Director, Lindsey Hunter Lopez, who will be offering us weekly glimpses at the faces—and fashions—of the recession with her Unemployment Lookbook.

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photo credit: BrownPolyester

The Fourth of July is a true cause to celebrate. Not because of the birth of America and Betsy Ross and flags flying high for freedom and all that jazz.

Celebrate because the Fourth of July is an unemployed person’s holiday!

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