Sometimes you've just got to have a good girls' day out. Lunch at a restaurant with a sunny patio and good bellinis, ice cream with chocolate sauce for dessert, a little window shopping. Our girls' day included all of those things (plus a boy).

The outfit I'm wearing here is obviously nothing special - it's basically my default outfit for when I physically need to be wearing clothing but don't really care what I look like in it - but what's nice is that lately I've been trying to do what all those fashion-advice-type women on TV are always telling you to do, which is whittle down my closet so that it's stocked primarily with pieces I can just pull out and put on without really thinking about it. Like, say, a pair of jeans that feel like your most beat-up pair of pajamas (but aren't), and a pair of oxfords that feel like your most beat-up pair of sneakers (but aren't). So even when you're "not wearing anything special," you're still wearing something that kind of...is.

Also just while we're on the topic of oxfords, everyone in the entire city of New York has been wandering around in these for the past year and I loved them when I first saw them and continue to love them now.