After watching the fifth season of The Voice with our Jamaican song bird emerging as the winner, it clear to most why she wooed the world. It was not only her singing and beauty, but her profound humility, modesty and most of all, her sense of fashion. Never once Tessanne was boastful or bragging and she was mature, sweet, charming and completely feminine without revealing her body. As a young married woman, she was very subtle, graceful and humble. These are the attributes that many of our young Jamaican women seem to lack.
Let us look around for a second here. Many of our young and young-at-heart females are seen parading in some interesting fashion trends, some so revealing, leaving little to the imagination. Even these last days, many of the short hems and busting necklines have found their way in the isles within the churches, creating havoc on many of our poor, weak-nerved men to almost go into cardiac arrests. It would seem that modesty has gone out through the window with our women, until “Princess Tess” appeared. In every single performance garment worn in every episode of The Voice, she showed enough, and hid enough which helped her to captivate her worldwide audience. She was indeed an all-round beauty. She did not even lose her accent!
Tessanne became a beacon of womanhood, the perfectly attired female and it is hoped that our high school females, young adults and performers would take a page from her book of life. There are many persons, who have Tessanne’s fashion preferences, but have found themselves ridiculed for dressing like young grannies. But oh, we have been given a virtual 101-revision lesson on how to be appropriate in fashion selections. I do hope that our young women will do their best to improve on their sense of fashion and work on their self worth. They need to realise that there is no need to go almost bare to be a winner, but to be subtle, humble in speech, confident, and make appropriate wardrobe selections for public appearances. Do the “Tessanne!”
