What I wore recently.
April and May outfits
I’ve been posting one outfit per month in my Modern Mixtape roundup, but I had a bunch more just hanging out in my photo library, so why not share them? Hey, it’s way easier than writing about my stupid feelings all the time. Here we go:
This is a very slouchy look but I’m digging it. I’m wearing a great linen blouse from Everlane (sob) with my beloved Nili Lotan Shon jeans. My bag is a very secondhand Gucci Bamboo Daily from The RealReal with a Clare V strap that I already had. My Birkenstocks belonged to my mother, and I love the dark wine color. I’ve been wearing them a lot which I think she’d appreciate.
The weather was all over the place in April and this was a chilly day! I’m wearing an old Quince cashmere cardigan, my long-sleeved Modern tee from Kule, and my jeans are from Hey Gang. My sneakers are Adidas in a bright salmon red/pink combo which always sparks joy.
We went to a cocktail party a few weeks ago and I finally had an excuse to dress up! I’m wearing my favorite Veronica Beard Amani dress, which I bought secondhand after renting it from RTR a few years ago. It’s such a pretty print but the button front requires some Stitchy action, just FYI. You can find this dress and different versions with the same print on Thredup and TRR pretty easily. (Also, someone snap up this size 8!) My sandals are Penelope Chilvers which I wrote about recently. They’re perfect.
It was unseasonably warm last week so I pulled out some shorts. These are Nili Lotan Yoann shorts which I found on Poshmark and they’re good! Just solid rigid denim cut-offs. I’m wearing them with an old eyelet top from Madewell that I still love. Madewell has quite a few similarly cute little tops right now - this one is adorable and the detail on this one is so pretty. I also love this version from Boden! My bag is the Clare V Grande Fanny, still my favorite small bag.
More dumb shorts. These are Madewell, a style from last summer that I repurchased in a size up because last year’s seemed tight. (I haven’t tried this year’s version.) I forgot they stretch out so now these are a little too big. I’m not mad about it, though, because slouchy shorts are better than tight shorts, right? I can’t handle tight right now. My tee is the AYR Supercool and I’m still wearing my mom’s Birks.
Finally, I wanted to show y’all my other pair of Everlane Easy Barrel Pants because even while the color (Oak) is odd, it seems to work with nearly everything. Here I’m wearing a grey striped Madewell tee (mine is from last summer but this one is similar) and my new gold sandals. I’ve also paired these pants with black, blue, white and a colorful floral print and they just always seem to work. They’re final sale, which sucks, but I’m wearing a medium if that helps.
That’s all I got - mostly my usual casual slop but I did manage to wear a dress so that’s something.
I love that you're wearing your mom's shoes. I have a couple of my mother's peasant tops, and every time I wear one, they're an uncomplicated memory of a complicated woman.
I had an almost identical version of outfit 1 last night. And I need to find a pair of barrel pants that work on my 4’11” frame.