International Dress Up Day -- Your Help Please!

[ 23 August 2007, 14:41 ]

Hello my lovelies.

I’ve been thinking about International Dress Up Day, & realising that I am dissatisfied. I have come to the conclusion that it either needs to be changed or canned completely. Recently I haven’t been very excited about doing it, & this has trickled down to everyone else. It’s impossible to encourage people to do something that you, yourself are not crazy about — & the whole point of iCiNG is doing what makes you happy!

I think a lot of it is due to the direction I’ve pointed it in. Every month we dress up as characters — & I’m not really interested in “being someone else”. I am happy being me, & I would rather dress to ENHANCE that, rather than escape into a fantasy world. Do you know what I mean?

So… I need your help. How can we adjust International Dress Up Day so that it is a celebration of ourselves, rather than a day of pretend? It may be that we change the name to more accurately reflect what it becomes. Who knows, maybe the whole format will be altered. I would still like to hold a regular celebration that we can all participate in, I’m just not sure how to swing it around. Do we need to dress up to celebrate? Should we alter the timing, so that it happens once every three months instead? Should it be more of a project than a send-your-photos-in-today kind of thing?

What do you think?