Fashion tip 3: Keep a Pashmina Shawl in Your Purse
The Pashmina shawl might be your swiss army knife of garments. Kept in your purse, you can slip it out to help you instantly:
- Keep you warm down to 40 degrees Farenheit, (4 degrees Celsius) by simply slipping it fully over your shoulders. In many cases you can avoid bringing a bulky coat with you when you are out and about
- Make elegant almost any outfit where you are wearing a pair of jeans by keeping it folded in half lengthwise then draping it over your shoulders and elbows
- Create an instant scarf to keep your head warm or, if snowing, dry
- Act as a coverup should you find yourself naked
I keep a Pashmina in my purse constantly and find it an invaluable fashion accessory.
If you are not quite sure what a Pashmina is, see some photos here at Google: Pashmina If you aren’t sure how to wear one, here’s a nifty video for you, it’s quite helpful to see since at first a Pashmina looks like just a piece of fancy cloth:
Don’t settle for a fake Pashmina. You’ll save a few dollars but it will not be of any help to you and will only fill your purse or tote up (or you’ll have a nice blanket for your cat), get one made of the real, Pashmina wool and you will be a happy lady. You’ll have an instant helper right at your fingertips to keep you warm, dry and fashionable 
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- - January 10, 2011
An “MtF transgender person” is what? A crossdresser?
I’m a transsexual woman. If someone would call me “MtF” anything, I’d kick their teeth in.
Hi Suvi,
Thanks for stopping by Beck’s Cafe to join the conversation. It sounds like that term really touched a nerve for you. It’s pretty common here in the U.S. often clarifying a person’s direction of transition or gender presentation. My use of it in a blog posting could be perceived as too clinical, but I wouldn’t characterize it as offensive.
Perhaps terminology might be a nice discussion to start here at Beck’s Cafe; what terms in our community are offensive to people be they transexual men or women? That discussion might require several pots of coffee
Becki
10-16-2011 Update: Changed titles of fashion posts to reflect a wider audience; they don’t apply to such a narrow group. Also, the idea of writing specifically for the search engines was really a flawed approach vs. just writing content that is helpful to our readers here at Beck’s Cafe. Thanks to Tuvi from last year’s comment for making us think about this topic. The posts labelled “Crossdresser tips for MtF transgender persons” we changed to just “Fashion Tips” as a result; you can see them all at this link: http://beckscafe.com/category/fashion/