When I was in my adolescence I was all knees, elbows and long lanky limbs. About the furthest thing from sexy you could imagine. Possibly the only thing that kept me from being horribly self-conscience about these all-too-true facts was that there was a very cool R&B singer named Aaliyah who was my same age and lanky as all hell too. Aaliyah didn’t let her tomboy body stop her from being the coolest girl on the playground and so I didn’t let it stop me either. Instead I bought baggy jeans just like hers and paired them with shruken baby tees occasionally adorned in the right hand corner with my initials. It seems fitting that men’s pants on women is making a comeback this season. Even though I have gained a few curves over the years I still like to rock the tomboy style occasionally. The photos above are an experiment in wearing my husbands khakis. I hope they are more reminiscent of Aaliyah than Ellen DeGeneres;) This year is the eighth anniversary of Aaliyah’s death and I hear a bio-pic is in the works. Hope it does her justice. Thanks Aaliyah for helping a skinny little girl from Baltimore feel cool.