Once more, with feeling*: time for another edition of Kendi Everyday’s 30 for 30 challenge. Without further ado, the building blocks for this round:
Dresses: (2)
- Black Jersey Dress: Ann Taylor (2010)
- Printed Floral Dress: Boden (2010)
Bottoms: (6)
- Boot-cut Jeans: Kut from the Kloth, via Nordstrom (2010)
- Dark Wash Skinnies: Kut from the Kloth, via Nordstrom (2010) Dark Wash Skinnies: Gap, via Gap.com (2011)
- Navy Ponte Trousers: Banana Republic (2009)
- Black Wintershorts: UO (2010)
- Black Tulip Overlay Skirt: Ann Taylor (2010)
- Grey A-Line Suit Skirt: Calvin Klein, via Filene’s (2010)
Cardigans/Blazers: (7)
- Doubleknit Blazer: Halogen, via Nordstrom (2011)
- Ironic Military Jacket: BCBG Max Azria “Runway” (2007) Dark Green Heathered Cardigan: Vintage TSE, mommed
- Long Grey Cardigan: Ann Taylor (2009) Long Light-Grey Cardigan: H&M (2011)
- Long Magenta Cardigan: Talbots (2011)
- Red Cardigan: Vintage Michael Kors, mommed
- Printed Yellow Cardigan: Talbots (2011) Army Green Dolman-Wrap Cardigan: Forever 21 (2010)
- Slouchy Grey Cardigan: Michael Michael Kors, via Nordstrom (2008)
Shirts: (9)
- Plaid Shirt: Forever 21 (2010)
- Navy and Red Striped Tee: Forever 21 (2010)
- White Striped Tee: Columbia Sportswear, hand-me-down from SIL E.
- White Tank: Banana Republic (2008)
- Black Tank: Banana Republic (2008)
- Purple Tee: Gap (2010)
- Red Tee: Gap (2010)
- Chartreuse Blouson Top: Loft (2011)
- Putty Blouson Top: Loft (2011)
Shoes: (5)
- Brown Riding Boots: Franco Sarto, via Zappos (2010)
- Brown Wedges: Naturalizer, via Amazon.com (2011)
- Brown Oxfords: Seychelles, via Piperlime (2010)
- Brown Metallic Loafers: Naturalizer, via DSW (2008)
- Black Wedges: Stuart Weitzman, via Bloomingdales (2008)
- Red Pumps: BC Footwear, via Zappos (2010)
For those keeping score at home, this is only 29 items. No, I haven’t suffered a recent and shocking lack of an ability to differentiate 29 from 30, I’m just (a) waiting for one last item to come in the mail, and (2) giving myself a teeny bit of weather-related wiggle room. Our weather has alternated from standard winter greys to some epic snow and ice, and in the interests of not falling on my face, I’m preserving the option for duck boots should they prove necessary. You may notice that this list has a lot in common with my last 30 for 30 capsule collection, which is representative of both the overall size of my closet (not large), and my approach to the challenge (mixing well-loved items that I actually wear with new things I’ve acquired and am trying to..encourage myself to wear as much and as soon as possible).
I’ve been looking forward to this round of the 30 for 30: I loved and learned a ton from the last one (read: the recap and the list of items), and I’m looking forward to pushing my remixing skills further still and making the most of a break from shopping and the creative inspiration of a limited closet. Once again, I find myself on the eve of some pretty chaotic stuff (personally and academically), and I’m relishing the idea of a break from the desire to acquire and yet another reminder that style comes from your brain, not your wallet. I’ve also been battling the winter body image blahs, and I’m hoping that challenging myself to create looks I love and feel good in with a palette of items known and unknown will remind me that this is yet another area of my life over which I have control.
Per the aforementioned business, you may not be hearing as much textually from me in the coming weeks, but I’m looking forward to sharing this wardrobe challenge with you. I hope we’ll be able to explore both the tips and techniques of remixing and the politics of our sartorial and fashion-financial choices, and inspire each other to great heights during these closet-limited, shopping-free days!
If you’re a style blogger, are you participating in this round of the 30 for 30? What are you most looking forward to? If you’re a non-blogger playing along at home, I’d love to feature some of your favorite remixed looks, lessons and stories — use the contact form above or e-mail me at narrowlytailored (at) gmail (dot) com!
*I’d be really sad if you didn’t get this reference, and you wouldn’t want to hurt my feelings, would you?
…to the first day of a seminar on gender?
Outfit 1:
- Brown Tweed Sweater: Vintage Ralph Lauren, mommed
- Honeysuckle Tee-shirt: Gap
- Silver Metallic Belt: UO
- Navy Ponte Trousers: Banana Republic
- Red Pumps: BC Footwear, via Zappos
Outfit 2:
- Red Cardigan: Vintage Michael Kors, mommed
- Black Jersey Dress: Ann Taylor
- White Tights: We Love Colors
- Brown Riding Boots: Franco Sarto, via Zappos
I have to tell you, guys: I have the beginning-of-the-semester slows, big time. I’ve been adjusting to my new schedule slowly, and while I could blame the bad weather and my having been sick as an excuse, I’ll try not to and just say: hey! I’m awake! …and I’ll be posting much more consistently for the next month or so, as I make my way through yet another 30-for-30 starting February 1. Thanks for bearing with me; I realize that while it’s seemed like some dramatic stuff on my end, out here in bloggyland, it’s just sounded like…mystifying radio silence.
Whether you’re in a professional job or in academe (as a student or a professor), how do you modify your sartorial choices for different settings? I know when I worked, I had “meeting clothes” and “in my office clothes,” which had very different stylistic demands, because I worked in a casual office but would have out-of-office meetings that were much more formal. As a student, I tend to be more confused about what the rules are: do large lecture classes warrant dressing up the way small seminars do? Is the rule just, I don’t wear jeans at school because I want to feel like a grown-up? Is that silly?
I wore the first outfit for a day when I had all lecture classes, considering trousers and heels to be a slightly less formal choice (though that’s not obvious, of course), and the second for a day when I had one large lecture class and then a small seminar on gender and the law. For amusing-but-not-surprising reasons, I agonized about what to wear to my gender seminar: what does one wear to talk about gender? As E. of academichic so eloquently described the unspoken codes of how art historians dress for art openings, I felt some of that same tension in trying to figure out what to wear for the first day of a seminar on gender issues: how does a feminist perform gender identity while talking about…performing gender identity and the legal consequences thereof?
I ended up settling for simple shapes (on yet another sickly day — apologies for the “after” photos…), accented by red, which is definitely my “power color,” even though it’s often called a no-no for someone with fair skin and red-ish undertones in her hair. Unexpectedly, bold red turns out to be a color in which I feel really confident and alert, and it’s inspired me to consider more options in that color family than I would have done previously. An even more unexpected consequence (and a thought experiment for you to practice at home, fellow student types): it turns out, wearing bright red in a lecture class of 200 people leads to an unprecedented amount of getting called on, and in fact, wearing red and actually knowing the right answer has…well, pretty remarkable effects.
Do you have a power color, something that makes you feel bold and competent and engaged? Do you think about gender when you think about dressing to show confidence and skill? Is your “power style” more masculine or more feminine, if you’ll permit me the use of those terms?
- Oversized Grey Cardigan: Michael Michael Kors, via Nordstrom
- Olive Green Tee-shirt: Banana Republic
- Black Leggings: Nordstrom
- Brown Riding Boots: Franco Sarto, via Zappos
- Lucky Socks: gift from FIL
There are days when I crave structure, whether it’s from a well-managed class, a good workout or a crisp blazer. And then there are days when I don’t. Days when I can’t imagine wearing anything with a zipper, when I want nothing more than to curl up under a blanket with a stack of papers to read and intermittently work and snooze in front of our sunny window. While I have my share of lazy work days, I tend not to indulge these sartorial desires for flexibility and looseness. But in honor of broken rules, expanded comfort zones and downright body image boldness, I decided to try taking that one last step into the unknown of the skinny bottom half: leggings as pants.
As the other emily and I have discussed, leggings-as-pants long held a spot on our list of “trends we swore we’d never wear,” I have to say there were things I loved about this outfit. On a day when I was feeling admittedly terrible, the soft, relaxed shapes made me feel comforted and nurtured, while the boots reminded me that I wasn’t in fact wearing pyjamas. The relatively fitted tee made me feel like I still had some shape under the oversized sweater, while the sweater provided ample coverage and kept me from feeling like my, ahem, ladyparts were on display for all to see. I should note, for context, that I didn’t wear this look at school, work or in any borderline formal occasion.
I won’t wax rhapsodic and claim that wearing flimsy leggings on my bottom half made me appreciate the strength of my legs and slayed all my body image demons, but I will say that this outfit was less of a catastrophic body image fail than I expected it to be. The combination of comfortable and on-trend shapes made me feel confident in what I was wearing, though, and gave me the freedom to think about other things on a day that I needed to plug on through. And maybe that’s a particular, and intriguing, kind of body image win: the kinds of clothes that make you feel neutral if not unambiguously positive, that free you up from thinking about your body or how you look in them. It isn’t the world’s most triumphal of feelings, but in a week that’s been full of both body ills and body-image weird, I’ll take it as a step in the right direction.
How do you feel about leggings as pants? How do you feel about experimenting with new trends that challenge your conceptions of what you “should” wear? What rules did you break this week?
- Black Jersey Dress: Ann Taylor, endlessly remixed
- Mustard Layering Tee: Forever 21
- Maroon Tights: HUE
- Belt: Forever 21
- Brown Riding Boots: Franco Sarto, via Zappos
- Necklace: Gifted
If you think you’ve seen this outfit before . . . you’re not exactly wrong. This is a basic concept I’ve used multiple times (black jersey dress + layering tee + tights + belt + jewelry + boots), but what I loved so much about this variation was the color. I’ve loved mustard and maroon together this fall and winter, and I loved the way the mixed neutrals here enabled the bold color combination. In an ideal universe where I owned everything I ever wanted and in every color I’d ever been interested in it in, I might have worn a chunky knit sweater in this mustard shade with a textured wool pencil skirt in the maroon, paired with maroon tights and brown heels. As the philosopher Jagger once said, though . . . you can’t always get what you want! I think I’ll live, though: I love continuing to discover the endless remixability of some of my most-loved pieces (just in time for another of Kendi’s 30 for 30 challenges!), and continuing to experiment with bold colors within the realm of shapes and styles I know and love. It ended up being the perfect combination for an icy, slushy first day of school: boots that kept my feet warm and dry, comfortable fabrics for a long day in the classroom and in the library, and festive colors that said, “I’m energetic and ready to try something new.”
Fellow academic-types: what did you wear on your first day of school? Did you go for something brand new, or remix an old favorite in a way that made you feel comfortable and inspired?
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- Oversized Purple Knit Sweater: Vintage Joseph, mommed
- Purple Heathered Tee: Gap
- Dark Wash Skinnies: Kut from the Kloth, via Nordstrom
- Brown Riding Boots: Franco Sarto, via Zappos
The last time I wore this sweater, belted with a skirt, a few of you helpfully suggested that I try it unbelted with skinnies and boots, celebrating its oversized coziness rather than restraining its shape. It seemed like the perfect option for my last day of freedom before the new semester started, when I could revel in the casual unbeltedness of a look like this. While I still probably spent much of the day thinking, “I look like a tent!,” I appreciated the warmth and relaxed shape of the sweater as I buried myself in the theoretical foundations of copyright law and scrambled to finish a few research tasks before the day-to-day grind of reading, note-taking and memorization resumes.
The ever-insightful Historiadora de Moda recently reminded me that sometimes, we just have to let oversized knit things…be oversized knit things. This is a challenge for me, as I’m always anxious about the idea that oversized clothing makes me look both bigger and sloppier. This is yet another way I’m working on stretching my stylistic muscles in 2011: trying out proportions beyond looks that make me as tall and slim of an hourglass as possible, and playing with volume and texture as well as pattern and color.
How do you wear oversized clothing? What are your go-to styling rules when you “break the rules” in this way? Do you have hangups about clothing that masks a certain part of your body you love to show off?
- Cornflower Blue Blazer: Vintage Michael Kors, mommed
- Black Tank: TSE, mommed
- Necklace: David Yurman, gifted
- Black Pencil Skirt: Calvin Klein, via Filene’s
- Black Microfishnets: Ralph Lauren, via TJ Maxx
- Black Tweed Heels: Bandolino, via ShoeWoo!
So, here’s the deal: I almost had to wear a boring suit on Thursday. I was giving a talk to the first year students at the law school, and my friend and colleague who organized the panel asked the presenters to wear court-appropriate attire (read: a suit or matched separates). I made a valiant effort to dress up my go-to charcoal interview suit (colorful accessories? Check. Jewel-toned top? Check. Fun shoes and tights? Check.), but try as I might, I just felt ho-hum and not me. Frustrated, I decided to change the formula a little bit: instead of a suit, I put together this outfit of matched separates. It’s based on a framework that’s a little more grown-up than your average law-student-plays-dress-up, and also a lot more me. A standout piece (seriously, who owns a cornflower blazer?), over a sleek black backdrop, with most of the pattern-mixing, rule breaking craziness confined to my lower half (microfishnets with tweed shoes? Why not!). It wasn’t standard conservative office fare, and I probably wouldn’t wear it for day one at a new job or for a first interview, but to me, it says confidence, self-awareness and a certain choosiness about my sartorial choices that I like being able to convey. I’m not sure every single 1L in the audience got this message as I sniffled my way through my demonstration, but on a day that I was still sickly and struggling to put together a fit-for-public-consumption package, it helped me pull myself together, visually and emotionally.
Much as I loved this outfit, my inability to accessorize my boring suit in a way that felt “like me” raises another set of interesting questions, and ones I know I’ll have to encounter before I start working in an environment where suits and solid colors predominate this summer. So, for those of you who have to wear suits as part of your standard attire, and don’t have a limitless supply of different styles of suits: how do you accessorize your “boring suit” to make it feel like you? How do you convey your sense of individuality within your office “uniform”? What makes it “okay” to break out of the dark suit mold?
As a quick aside: thanks, everyone, for your patience with my absence from the blogosphere at the end of last week! I’m now both recovered from my cold and back from a refreshing trip to visit my adorable infant niece! I’m not sure I’d say I’m 100% raring-to-go on the new semester (which starts tomorrow), but I’m very much looking forward to a fresh start and a new outlook as I head back to school.
- Green Heathered Cardigan: TSE, mommed
- Grey-Green-Blue Belt: Forever 21
- That Black Jersey Dress: Ann Taylor
- White Tights(!): We Love Colors
- Brown Riding Boots: Franco Sarto, via Zappos
- Necklace: David Yurman, gifted
As you can see outside our window, it snowed here yesterday (and last night). Since I’m (sadly!) too old to be making a snowman, I’m using the occasion as an excuse to break out my new white tights (ed. note: I realize that’s a stretch of a segue). Dotty and Monkeyface inspired me to try this look, despite my initial reservations (you want me to wear a light color? On the lower half of my body?), and I’m really happy with the way this first attempt has turned out. The bright white adds some contrast and visual interest and “smooths” the transition from the black dress to the brown boots, without competing with the greens and blues of the sweater and belt. And while I might not wear these tights with a micro-mini (okay, I might not wear a micro-mini), under this dress at least, they don’t turn me into the abominable snow-woman I’d feared.
While I’ve normally worn longer-length cardigans over this dress, I’m really liking the way this shorter one paired with it. The shorter length and belted waist visually raise my waistline, and the heathered green ends up forming a great tone-on-tone pairing with the simple, stretchy grey-green belt. I’m off to a long day of meetings, research and writing to help get me back in gear for the coming semester, and while this isn’t the most energetic ensemble I could have worn, I’m hoping it’ll strike the right mix of comfort and structure to get me through the day. As a bonus, it’s a test of whether the theory that green-ish tones mask red ones: does the green-ish hue distract you from my bright red, chapped nose?
How have you worn brightly colored or patterned tights this winter? Are there colors you would never wear? What’s become your go-to non-black tight this year?
The wedding:
- Sculptural LBD: Ann Taylor summer mega-sale
- Painted Cashmere Wrap: mommed
- Stockings: Spanx (sorry!)
- Black Croc Wedges: Stuart Weitzman, via Bloomingdales
- Necklace: David Yurman, gifted
As I mentioned yesterday, we had a joyous-if-frigid weekend here in Narrowly Tailored-land, highlighted by the beautiful wedding of best-friend-from-law-school A.! A. and husband(!) J. are such special people, and it was a joy to be a part of their wonderful ceremony and to share the weekend with them, their families and friends.
Although A. and J.’s church doesn’t have a strict modesty code, I was giving a non-secular reading, so it was important to me to be respectful of the setting and their tradition. In retrospect, a cardigan in a bright color might have better served this purpose (covering my shoulders more permanently and keeping me warmer on what proved to be a bitterly cold night). All the same, I liked cozying up in this wrap I seem to have relieved my mother of some years ago (I think under the guise of borrowing it for someone else’s wedding — thanks, Mom!), which added a unique texture, some visual interest and some old-school glamour to the ensemble.
Hindsight is 20/20, but I probably should have styled this look with bolder, higher heels in a sexier shape (either a plain stiletto pump or perhaps my black tweed heels). I plead practicality: my black “office heels” need some TLC after a summer of walking up and down city sidewalks, and the tweed heels seemed a bit, well, dangerous for a walk across the church and up carpeted steps to the dias to read. All the same, I think the patent croc leather added a bit of unexpected glam to the toned-down silhouette of the wedge heel: it probably isn’t a look I’d make a mainstay of my semi-formal wardrobe, but here, I think it worked.
In re: my office heels: what’s your cost-benefit equation when it comes to repairing inexpensive heels? I can’t decide if it’s worth paying $20 to repair a $45 pair of shoes, investing more sensibly in such a critical wardrobe piece, or some alternative solution.
The rehearsal dinner:
- Floral Patterned Jersey Dress: Boden (UK) semi-annual sale
- Maroon Tights: HUE, via hue.com
- Brown Riding Boots: Franco Sarto, via Zappos
- Necklace: David Yurman, gifted
These outfits are actually in reverse chronological order: I wore this one to the rehearsal, rehearsal dinner and accompanying festivities. I had been struggling with what to wear for Friday’s events, which fell into that dreaded “festive casual” / “just look nice” dresscode wasteland between “flirty summer frock” and “semi-formal attire,” particularly in the dead of a mid-Atlantic winter. As if sensing my sartorial malaise, the dress I ordered from the Boden sale showed up on Thursday evening, giving me a brand new option to wear on Friday (and to experiment with in the weeks and months to come). (Ed. note: if you order things from the UK, you usually cannot track them unless they’re shipped UPS or Fed Ex. On the other hand, bonus excitement when your stuff eventually shows up weeks later….). My original plan was to pair this with nude microfishnets and either red or teal pumps, but after taking a look at the weather and the 2+ miles I’d be walking across the city, I opted for boots and colored tights.
Even though it’s fitted through part of the torso, this dress probably could have used a belt to better define my waist and tie the brown boots in to the brightly colored ensemble. I struggled with how to belt around the under-bust seam: any ideas? How do you belt dresses with detailing in the form of ruching or seaming?
As veteran readers know, I’m not exactly known for my vast collection of printed items, and this is by far the boldest print I’ve purchased in recent memory (and, let’s just say I have a long recent memory!). I loved its festive, energetic vibe, and I’m looking forward to pairing it with other prints, as well as other bold solids. I’d love your thoughts, though: how would you style this dress? How do you dress for those kinds of “in-between” occasions, particularly during the colder months?
- Winter White Sweater/Jacket Thing: vintage Piazza Sempione, mommed
- Purple Layering Tee: Gap
- Dark Wash Skinnies: Kut from the Kloth, via Nordstrom
- Brown Riding Boots: Franco Sarto, via Zappos
- Necklace: gifted
Happy Rule Breaking Monday! Sadly, I’m spending the last Monday before the start of term home sick and trying to design a survey instrument…. But, pity party aside, it gives me a great chance to explore one of my hardest-to-break styling rules: “surrendering” my waist in beltless looks and boxy, or oversized garments on my upper half.
Why hardest to break, you ask? Warning, dear readers: this is one of those stories that keeps threatening to start with youth soccer, but I’ll try to stick to the Cliff’s Notes version. (Query: do people even use Cliff’s Notes anymore?) For as long as I can remember, I’ve been one of those people who has bordered between being an hourglass and a straight-up pear shape. I’m neither the first nor the last woman to feel this way, but I have to admit it: it has taken me a long time to get to “like” with my thighs, and I am still a decent ways from “love.” As a result, most of my sacred cows of styling rules have to do with trying to optically balance out my proportions, and with highlighting those parts of my body I’m more excited about. In 99.999999% of cases, this includes calling attention to my waist in some way: a sheath dress with nipped-in detailing, a belt (wide or, lately, narrow), a high-waisted skirt or pant. Consequently, I’ve always struggled with how to wear this cozy, thoughtfully-detailed knit jacket my mother passed along to me. It doesn’t seem to work very well with skinny pants and low heels, nor with flowy or a-line skirts, and while I suspect it may make friends with boot cut jeans and sky high heels, I wasn’t quite up for it today! So, here, I’ve paired it with my trusty skinnies and boots, hoping that the shorter length and the weight of the boots will balance it out. While I’ve stuck with soft neutrals here, I could easily see this paired with a colored heel or, perhaps, a brightly-colored skirt to play off the winter white.
How would you style this piece, and save yet another white elephant of my closet? How have you tackled this particular styling rule and convinced yourself to surrender your waist from time to time?
I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! I’ll be back tomorrow with what I wore to the beautiful winter wedding of one of my closest law school friends on Saturday….
This week’s Friend Friday exposes another little-talked-about subject in style blogging: how do we view ourselves and our blogs compared to our peers?
1. Have you ever looked at someone’s blog and thought yours will never measure up?
Perhaps unsurprisingly, my thoughts on this echo a lot of what Sally McGraw was saying last week about “seemingly perfect” style bloggers: many of us feel occasional pangs when we see other bloggers doing things we think we could never do (for whatever reason), but it’s important to put what we’re seeing in context. Everyone who writes a blog (indeed, everyone who goes out into the world and interacts with people!) is making choices about what they’re presenting about their lives, and many people are making or are able to make different choices than the ones I’ve made. It’s when I lose sight of that that I start to feel those pangs of anxiety about measuring up, when I start to fixate on the imperfections of my body or my wardrobe or my sense of style.
2. Do you (did you) feel pressure to meet some kind of undefined standard for fashion bloggers?
I think this goes back to the “we’re all making choices” issue. It doesn’t make us bad or dishonest to acknowledge that we’re being selective about what we present about our lives, but I do think it is important to acknowledge that this is what we’re doing. I sometimes worry about whether my selection filters match up with some kind of undefined standard, standing in the closet thinking, “would so-and-so have blogged this outfit?” On the other hand, I also know I have high standards for myself. It was important to me, if I was going to pursue style blogging as a hobby, that I produce high quality content. I definitely feel that self-imposed pressure on occasion, wondering if my photos are good enough or the writing really reflects the best of what I have to say on that topic.
3. Many established fashion bloggers are also extraordinary DIYers, bakers, and crafty people. Do you think you need to combine all of these things to be successful at blogging?
Oooh! A one-word answer: no. I do enjoy reading “lifestyle” blogs where people incorporate style, cooking, crafts, etc., but I’m comfortable with the fact that that’s not what me and my blog are about. I do the occasional DIY project, and when I finally succeed in making clothes I’d be willing to wear out of the house, I’ll definitely feature those here. Fundamentally, though, my blog is about developing personal style with the tools you have available to you. I feel accountable to both myself and my readership to stay true to that mission, so while I’ll occasionally talk about other stuff going on in my life, I’m trying to maintain that focus.
4. The most successful blogs are the ones that have their own personal voice – how are you developing your voice or how did you find yours?
Funny you should ask! I actually think the best complement I’ve gotten on my blog was from another style blogger who is a dear, dear friend in real life: a few weeks ago, she sent me an e-mail that mentioned how recognizable my blogging voice is as, well, me. Performativity and selection bias aside, I’m trying to ensure that the writing you see here is not only high quality, but reflects the way I think and talk and write about these subjects. I’m still working on precisely where the blogging voice and the journalist voice and the lobbyist voice and the academic voice all come together when I talk about personal style, but I can’t imagine that that’s a process that will ever really stop. Or at least, I hope it won’t!
5. Toot your own horn… what’s one thing you do that is unique to you and your blog? What gives your blog an edge?
Unique is a funny word, so, instead I’ll go with, things that are special and may be different about me and my blog: I think the sort of hybrid position I’m in in life right now provides an interesting context to my style blog. I’m a graduate student, but not a PhD-to-be, I took several years off after college before I came back to law school (including several jobs and a masters degree), I’m not 100% sure what my long-term path is. I’m trying to shop on a relatively small budget for items that will fit a range of sartorial situations that straddle the “student” and “grown-up” worlds. I think another thing that’s special about me is my small closet! I’m a dedicated remixer with a small but mighty arsenal of items that I love and try to keep for a really long time. I appreciate your patience with the many repeated items you see here, but I also hope my readers come to see it as I do: as a positive, not a negative.
If you’re a fellow style blogger: what’s special about you and your blog? If you’re a non-blogging reader: what do you think about what Sally had to say? How do you think about what you’re seeing from the style blogs you read, and how do you put what you’re reading in the context of other material about style you consume?
On the note of not measuring up: I realize I have a backlog of comments to get to, and I’m so sorry! I make an effort to respond to each and every comment posted here, and I promise I’ll get back to even over the weekend!
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