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NEW! The Best Leggings/Yoga Pants EVER

Name: NEW! The Best Leggings/Yoga Pants EVER
Brand: Velvet Bohemian by Alexis Evanoff
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Price: 999.0 USD
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Stylish, durable, & an evergreen fashion staple. These leggings/yoga pants/comfortable things to wear are made of a soft microfiber yarn, & they'll never lose their stretch or fade • Fabric is 82% polyester, 18% spandex • Four-way stretch • Elastic waistband • Precision-cut and hand-sewn after printing • Designed, printed, cut, and hand-sewn in SoCal! IMPORTANT: Each piece is made when you order it, so it takes a little longer before shipment: 3-7 days (The model is an S and is wearing a M)

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velvetbohemian These tend to be right on target as far as fit goes -- if you usually wear a medium in most brands, its a medium here, but if you are accustomed to "vanity sizing" as they call it, I would recommend to go one size up from what you are used to. Since they are made of a comfortable stretchy fabric, they will still wear comfortably even if you go one size up and it ends up being a little too much.

May 02Reply

velvetbohemian Not just a fashion statement, but an artistic statement. This series of leggings/yoga pants/comfortable things to wear have been designed by Alexis Evanoff, featuring the work of various amazing women artists whom you probably have never heard of. When you wear these, you are wearing a piece of art and a piece of the hidden history of women -- our history.

May 02Reply

velvetbohemian This piece features the work of Margaretha Haverman (active by 1716–stopped painting by 1723) did in the piece entitled "A Vase of Flowers" that is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York dated 1716. She holds a special place in my heart not only for having been from Amsterdam (one of my favorite cities in the whole world), but also because her story is one that I think many of us can understand.

May 02Reply

velvetbohemian Margaretha was a young and talented female painter who needed a mentor so that she could be properly introduced into artistic society. Her father understood this and, wishing her to be successful, strongly suggested to one of the famous painters that worked in the school he ran to take her on as his apprentice. Jan van Huysum, the famous Dutch painter, never took on any pupils and was very secretive about his technique, but obliged because Margaretha's father was his boss.

May 02Reply

velvetbohemian She was a passionate & talented student & her mentor quickly found her abilities threatening. He became extremely envious & tried to get rid of her as an apprentice several times, which her father always managed to prevent. Finally, under the vague excuse that he had to get rid of her because of some "bad deed" that he doesn't even bother to specify explicitly, he finally got to have her removed as his apprentice.

May 02Reply

velvetbohemian The "bad deed" in question is likely that she was seeing a man, the very man whom she married the next year. After she was married she moved to Paris with her husband and was admitted to the prestigious "Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture" in 1722. She was only the second woman in the history of the Académie to be admitted.

May 02Reply

velvetbohemian Her previous mentor considered this a personal affront because she began to sell her work once she was a member and he felt that her work was so close to his own that it would somehow devalue his work (according to the Biography of Johannes van Huysum in Johan van Gool's "De nieuwe Schouburg der Nederlantsche Kunstschilders en Schilderessen")

May 02Reply

velvetbohemian So, after one year of being a member of the Académie, she was expelled because an unfounded claim started circulating that the piece she presented to them for entrance into the Académie was not hers, but her mentor's.

May 02Reply

velvetbohemian This proved to be a serious blow to Margaretha and she never painted or sold her works publicly again.

May 02Reply

velvetbohemian For me, this is a reminder that even if I come against enemies like this, I should never let myself be silenced. We all are stewards of our unique gifts and we need to give them.

May 02Reply