It was a problem. Where do you find good quality cotton leggings made in UK? Put that sentence in a google search and lots of media legging round ups come up featuring loads of leggings, work out leggings, yoga leggings, Fabletics, Sweaty Betty, Lululemon, Adidas, Nike but most are performance leggings, few are cotton and virtually all are made overseas.
In a bid to revive luxury ethical UK fashion manufacturing in her home town of Leicester, The Venus Cow Made in England fashion collection, a social enterprise is set to launch at The Clothes Show, NEC Birmingham, UK 6th-10th Dec, 2013 created by social entrepreneur and free lifecoach Shirley Yanez.
Shirley, a 57 year old ex Hollywood fashion stylist from Leicester has discovered the secrets how to turn back the clock when it comes to looking and feeling ageless but she insists her program is not easy for most to even contemplate.
In 2005 after a near death experience in Los Angeles, Shirley made a decision to get healthy and begin to appreciate and understand how her body worked in order to be the best she could be in later life, rather than let herself go!
She gave up all her addictions, drinking, smoking, chocolate, sex, shopping, drugs, meat and caffeine by going cold turkey overnight.
Six years on, the results speak for themselves now Shirley is a perfect size 12 with ageless style. She has designed her own fabulous fashion collection Venus Cow for real women with curves and disposable income who have been dismissed and ignored by the High Street and young women who love style and luxury over disposable trash.
Shirley speaks,
“Older women no matter how slim or fat desire on trend staples with structure, sleeves, stretch and sex appeal, that are effective, affordable and versatile. Younger women and girls have been brainwashed by big fashion brands, made to feel inadequate by stick thin photoshopped magazine images and sold a dream that is just not attainable, real or healthy.
Age is just a number and many middle aged women have given up the fight in this current youth obsessed culture, choosing fat frumpy and forgotten over fabulous fifty and fashionable, so someone had to step in and save the day with attainable affordable aspiration for all".
Brutal truth common sense and someone to help build confidence and develop will power is all it takes to endure the short term pain, in order to benefit from long term gain. Shirley has created a free online life coaching website with the help of students and staff at Leicester University to help anyone work on themselves in private.
Shirley speaks,
“When you manage to take back control of your life and begin to face your brutal truth, everything you thought impossible becomes an amazing reality. I am living proof anything is possible if you are prepared to do the work and make better choices.”
You can meet Shirley and preview the Venus Cow Collection in the British Pavilion area 19, LX160.