I have fully embraced walking to kindergarten dropoff each morning while dressed as a character from Grey Gardens. This morning, for example, I accompanied my child to school wearing sunglasses the size of basketballs, striped sweatpants with sparkly silver stars on them…and a massive faux-fur coat that each and every one of his classmates immediately needed to pet, making me quite the hot topic at the dropoff line (“MRS. INDY’S MOM, WHY DO YOU FEEL LIKE A KITTEN.”).
When you’re in the mood to get a little odd with it, my feeling is that it’s all about what you put on top. You can be all white-t-shirt-and-jeans and zzzzzzz underneath, but if you cover the whole thing up with a massive, multicolor-striped, fringed and hooded poncho-esque creation that evokes Yoda via Lilith Fair, or perhaps a fuzzy coat that brings to mind a Bantha with a goth dye job (I mean that as a compliment)? You’re good. Like, real good.
A sprinkling of crazy keeps life interesting, and if your crazy emerges via a statement jacket so statement-making that it might as well be a poster reading IDGAF, that’s kiiiiiiind of amazing.
P.S. Kendrick gave me the cape pictured here for Christmas. Unprompted. (He knows me pretty well.)
On Me: Poncho | Obey T-Shirt
On Francesca: Jacket (similar) | Jeans | Shirt | Julia Clancey Turban
