I dreamed I saved the world in my Maidenform bra

I don't know if anyone but me (and my mom) remembers this but it seriously bugged me. I even made a desultory search one afternoon for the CEO's name so I could complain, didn't find it, and wandered off to do something else. I really did mind, though-- what kind of a message is that to send to kids, or to anyone, that boys will save the world and girls will... wear pink?. And we really did buy one for each twin.

What I didn't admit at the time, though, was that the girl-child never wore hers, and I never even tried to make her, probably for the same reason they didn't try to sell undyed organic cotton to girls in the first place: she would never have cared for the color, or lack of one. So my message shirt (I am usually against these, and rather surprised myself by being so taken with this one, but I guess I really do believe the world needs saving) languished in my daughter's drawer, along with its message. Until yesterday.

I was rummaging around in the artsy-crafts store and noticed these handy little packs of toss-in-the-washing-machine dye* and thought, a-ha!. Easy, and done, and she loves her new shirt, and now I really do need to find that email address so I can show the Gymboree folks that I fixed their stupid mistake for them.

*No, it's not made from fair-trade organic beets, shut up. 

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