Stereotypical Summer

Midriff bearing top, check. Cross body bag not strewn across my body, check. Coachella-y, aztec-y skirt, check. Sneakers because you're in between Flirty Fresh and Indie Chic on Seventeen Magazines crosswords to pin pointing your summer style, checkkk.

Work Inappropriate

To be exact, all the misgivings of an outfit that disassembled should be appropriate in a work type setting, but together, are not. A practice at the very core of my self-ascertained "unconventional" and "individualistic" choice in dress. 

Please, read on.

The Art of Repurposing

The key to life: Layers. We can make any outfit, couch or flat hairstyle that much better with the careful addition of an extra layer of love. Be it a particular fur lined parka on sale at ASOS, an embroidered throw or face framing cut, repurposing is essential to making the things we hold dearest to our temporal hearts, endure.

Take this 70s actually–non-fraudulent–vintage dress I wore once to a Quincinera. I heart this dress. More than you even know. All by it's lonesome, 2nd hour Biology just wouldn't do this dress justice. nor would it be deserving of storage in a dusty, 19th century locker during 4th hour Aerobics. Enter the craft of repurposing.

Emphasis on the craft.

Because Weather

We've been over this before. Rain, hail, sleet, SNOW, they each offer pretty severe consequence on how we adorn our extremities in preparation for the great outdoors. But it is only now becoming apparent that the sunshower phenomena is becoming much less of a phenomenal occurrence.