Clothing Purgatory

It's Friday night around 9 p.m. and you're just not sure if you're gunna kick it at home, watch a movie, read a book, chat with your roommate, or start blowdrying the hair, putting on your face, choosing which clutch to wear and dusting off the old stilettos. In that period of casually eating blueberries, staring at a blank wall, texting your whole phonebook to see what everyone else thinks you should do tonight, chances are you're not going to be sitting naked on a chair in the middle of your living room whilst doing so. Putting on PJ's would lean you to staying in and keeping on your threads from work would encourage you to go out. What do you sit around in while you decide your fate for that night? A robe. A robe is a perfect, neutral article of clothing that every woman should have anyway. I like to call it clothing purgatory. You're waiting around to see which way you're gunna swing it and a robe is the most unbiased way to do it. In 5 minutes you can either be in a big t-shirt and sleep shorts or dressed up and ready to go out. Clothing purgatory I tell ya.

SPLURGE

Kiki De Montparnasse
Amour Collection silk-charmeuse robe
www.net-a-porter.com
Was $850     Now $435     50% Off!

SAVE

Personalized Waffle Weave Kimono Robe

http://weddingshop.theknot.com/personalized-waffle-weave-kimono-robe.aspx?MsdVisit=1
$39.95 each

Work. But is it actually?

I'm interning for a magazine this summer in Manhattan doing marketing and sales. People call it work but I don't see this job as 'work'. Everything I've experienced, seen or heard has been a learning experience that I never want to see end in the beginning of August.

Countless adults at my parents' dinner parties would tell me "don't rush through college", "it's the best four years of your life", "oh, if I could only do it again," etc. I completely agree. I love college. I don't want to rush through it. I know it's the best four years of my life. I'll most likely want to relive these years a decade or so from now. However, I recognize the fact that I need to be getting experience in a field that I am interested in. How can this be my first taste of something so sweet? It was not always a tangible idea, but now, I know that I must chase what I want. Not 'go after it' or 'pursue my potential career path'. I need to chase the idea of ultimately being satisfied in my potential career. I'm not sure if that's possible for me to do in my college town. It's time to think about next summer and this one's barely started.

During my magazine's annual sales meeting, the only feeling I could muster up in my journal was excitement. I would look around the room and think "do these women know how lucky they are?" They get to make a difference and make an impact in a publication that reaches millions of hands every single day. I would look around the room to see satisfied and appreciative nods to the words being spoken, however, I could literally not contain my excitement. I want to create, convince, write and sell. Maybe I'm just a little immature, inexperienced and easily impressed, however, I know I must harness this enthusiasm into hardwork and reality.

On to the Next One

As I've said before and will say again, fashion isn't stagnant. It's constantly changing, evolving, reocurring, repeating and a bunch of other words that will get me to the point without further explaining myself. I've gotten some tips about style for Fall 2012. Picture this: black leather, geometric prints, midevil prints, equestrian influence, heavy metallic jewelry, colored and textured fur. Sounds right out of an episode of Game of Thrones to me. Let's see how this all decides to pan out.