I know Houston. Like know it know it. It’s a familiarity that can only come from a lifetime of shopping and eating and sneaking around and getting lost in a place. I’ll never know San Antonio in that way, but since moving here a little over three months ago, I’ve made it my part time job […]
For my 16th birthday, my mother bought me a blazer and matching skirt from the Gap. I guess you’d call that a suit. It was a navy blue suit, beautifully tailored, and I hated its guts. The suit accompanied tickets to Houston Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker which was a super thoughtful surprise as I’d […]
I remember a time when I truly dressed for me. Not for a job or for the attention of a boy or for my mother or the clique-y PTO moms. My style was my own. It took me a while to get there – I’d say around my senior year of high school. But when […]
If you’re a friend*, you know I’ve been slowly working up the nerve to get back to my role of style blogger (and one thousand other things). Lately, I’ve been trying to unpack my whys: why do I even want to do this and why am I so terrified to do this. I spent chunks […]
