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Happy Place

February 25, 2014

{ H&M shirt worn as dress (similar); Urban Outfitters Hat; Freebird Boots; Ora Delphine Bag }

I think I've found my happy place, clothing-wise, for Pregnancy Number Two. The first time around I did a lot of experimenting, held onto my very high heels with an iron grip in an effort to maintain my "usual" look, and basically went all over the map, ending up with some hits and a whole bunch of misses (like this outfit: ehhhh). This time I'm still up for lots of experimenting - mostly because it's honestly so much fun to dress a completely different (and constantly changing) shape - but for now, at least, I think I know what makes me feel comfortable: a relaxed-fit (but very short) dress. Flats, but non-boring flats, plz. Hats, because I don't have time to do my hair. Sunglasses, because I am exhausted.

And way too much jewelry, obviously, because some things never change.

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(Perfectly Oversized) Plain White Tee

January 28, 2014

Seriously, I can't think of a very good reason why I would wear anything other than this every single day for the rest of my life. Why mess with something so wonderful?

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Hold On

January 15, 2014

Every Saturday when I was in middle school, my best friend Arielle and I walked over to the Salvation Army on West 46th Street, returning home with huge plastic bags filled with clothing that we'd gotten for a dollar or two per piece. Every once in awhile when I'm visiting my parents I still stop by - mostly to check out the (honestly amazing) furniture selection on the third floor - but when it comes to clothing, the finds are much fewer and further between than they used to be back in the day. Maybe because pricey vintage stores are trolling for the really great stuff, maybe because my tastes have changed, maybe just because I don't have the patience that I used to to sift through rack after rack of clothing...but whatever the reason, it's rare that I come home from a visit with something I'll actually wear.

A few years back, I stopped in and found this sweater. It was so big on me that it could definitely be called a dress, and it looked like something Carlton would have worn for a dance party with Will, but still: I liked it enough to hand over five bucks.

I never wore it.

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Torn T-Shirts And Twinsies

September 17, 2013

My friend Francesca (that's us in Vegas last spring) is the most fashionable person I know, and I don't mean that in an fancy-purses-and-snobby-labels way: I mean she's just one of those people who's naturally about ten steps ahead of the trends and can wear things like cut-up men's undershirts and somehow make them look like couture, and she inspires my own clothing experiments more than anyone else.

Oh my god, did we ever have fun when we lived together in L.A. We basically shared a wardrobe: she'd borrow one of my Trovata cat-princess dresses and I'd put on some beaded sheath that she'd found at a thrift store in Italy, and we'd head out to play darts until two in the morning before coming back home and jumping into the pool. I've never had that experience before - where you're so close with someone that your possessions become more or less shared - but that's exactly the way it was: even Lucy felt more like "our" dog than "mine".

Anyway, Francesca is very much my Fashion Spirit Sister, so when she emailed me that she was on the hunt for a perfectly distressed rocker tee (we email and/or text each other about ten times a day, so things like "I'm on the hunt for a perfectly distressed rocker tee" are totally acceptable topics, in addition to "Miley Cyrus is completely naked in her new video" and just how much Marvin is crying on this season of ANTM), I thought: ooh. That sounds good.

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Best Vest

September 10, 2013

I don't know that I've ever received more questions about a single item of clothing than I have about this cable-knit vest (posted a couple of times on my Instagram feed). It's LOFT, and it's here. Enjoy!

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Weekend Snapshots: How About Them Apples Edition

September 9, 2013

Friday night, I flew out to Minnesota (my very first time ever in the state) to co-host an I.N.C. event at the Mall of America with Camila Alves.

I was back home and giving my guys kisses within 30 hours (whew!), but in between...

Oh, in between:

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Pants That Work For Work (And Weekend)

September 3, 2013

I found the perfect pair of pants once: they were silky, black, and bootcut, with a mid-rise waist and a neat hook-and-eye closure. I spent way too much money on them because they were perfect, and perfect pants can feel impossible to find…and when you do find them it seems like you should probably buy them (preferably in triplicate) just in case you never come across another pair that fits you that well ever again.

That was about a decade ago. I wore those pants for years and years until the hems frayed and the seams fell apart and they ended up in the donation box, headed straight for Goodwill.

Finding a great pair of pants shouldn’t be especially difficult. But apparently it’s not just me who has trouble with this particular undertaking: pants, it turns out, are a tough buy for pretty much everyone. LOFT did a study with 10,000 real women in which the participants tried on hundreds of pairs of pants and explained exactly what they liked and didn’t like, and found that for most women buying a pair of pants is even more challenging than buying a swimsuit. In response, they set out to completely reimagine how women approach the experience of shopping for pants….and it worked.

What LOFT came up with: a Fall 2013 collection that includes 45 different pants options and a “fit tree” that helps women find the perfect pair for them.

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Panama In The City

August 27, 2013

Every autumn (and I'm going to call this "autumn" even though it's eighty degrees outside because Labor Day is about thirty seconds away), it appears that I establish a uniform.

I think it's just that every time September rolls around there's some "thing" - whether that's a pair of jeans, a sweater, a leather jacket, whatever - that I've been wanting to wear for months, and now that the weather's turning I can.

And so I do. Every day.

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