I wish I had the gumption to dress like this person…
September 2nd, 2010 at 12:32 am ET…or, obviously, not exactly like this person, but with the same desire to nail a precise stylistic look and the same determination to carry it off. And I don’t think she was on her way to, like, her waitress job at Medieval Times, she appeared to be just going to class like a normal person, only dressed like that. And she was perfect. My raggedy-ass surreptitious iPhone pic doesn’t do justice to her painstakingly conceived outfit and her numerous accessories, including a coordinating two-fingered ring on her left hand. (Not pictured: her coordinating bejeweled sandals.)
There are only a couple cities in America in which you can get away with a look like this and not seem absolutely ridiculous (or worse), and New York is the only one where you can do it at any time of the day, any time of year. She was too put-together to get away with it in San Francisco (although, to be fair, nobody in San Francisco would say so to her face), and in L.A. she’d just look ridiculous unless she was on her way to an audition. But in the New York subway, at 9:15 in the morning, she looked terrific!
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