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MADE FEATURES M ADE: Thank you for coming to interview with MADE Magazine. We definitely appreciate you guys! Meagan: Thank you for having us! MADE: You recently rolled out a clothing line called “Defend Good Girl”. Tell us why you chose flannel wear and what it symbolizes for you all? Meagan: We chose flannel because growing up we wore flannels all the time. Especially just as young women, it just has been a piece of a majority of our outfits because it gives off the sens e of...you’re not trying too hard. You just have a little bit of an effortless flair, but it’s comfortable. It’s simple and we just love flannels. We noticed that a lot of the younger kids were bringing it back and starting to wear it as well. So we were like, “Listen, why don’t we do something that’s a classic piece that we already love and they love”. So yeah, we were like “Let’s do a flannel where it can be a dress as well”. So you can wear it so many ways. it defines them. And so, it was important for us to really represent that the things that you have been through, the tests that you’ve been through should be your testimony. And when it defines you, it can be in a positive way. And really to unapologetically be themselves, be authentic and have ownership. Don’t live in fear and don’t be in a box. Meagan: And I think too being the girls who take ownership over themselves, who love themselves, respect themselves and have self-worth for some reason is not a very popular thing. A lot of women nowadays are feeling like they have to show themselves a certain way or they have to do things that may be exploitive. To each its own, no judgement, but I think a lot of younger girls are following in those steps where they think that they don’t have any value unless they look like “this”, or unless they’re doing “this”, or unless they’ve slept with “that” person, or unless they can compete with “this” MADE: So what is the definition of a good girl to you and why do you want to defend her? LaMyia: Well, to us we’ve dealt with a lot of adversity just like a lot of young women have. I think a lot of times young women get confused with thinking that what may have happened to them or what they have done in their lives whatever scars, damages they may carry, whatever burdens they may carry - that made-magazine.com | 7 Do your own thing. Blaze your own path.