Keep it simple

Getting dressed when you're checked out of getting dressed requires an extremely straightforward template or uniform to return to over and over (and over) again.

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Today’s main event: where have you been at with getting dressed lately? I’ve been mostly checked out of putting on clothes which could be a partial function of not being in the city (less culture around getting dressed in “the country” as my daughter Madeline calls it) or the fact that I came here with nothing but a medium-size tote at the end of June and haven’t been back to the city since then. But as it goes anyway, depending on where I’m at psychically, one of the best or worst things about summer dressing is that I don’t think about clothes as much.

Like the pipeline from getting dressed to feeling good is simpler. It doesn’t take a lot out of me the way it does in the fall/winter.

St Agni low back t-shirt (I love this blue one too), Khaite suede clutch (yes to this one too. Under $1k and leopard print is she); bracelet 1, bracelet 2 I’d recommend to wear solo.

My fish hook earrings, an Arielle Ratner ring. I like Dorsey’s Bendetta for bracelet. This one too

The reason I say it’s either the best or worst part is because working with clothes — like constantly staying on top of what is out there, then trial-and-erroring, or giving old things away/bringing new things in, or bringing old things in/giving new things away — takes a tremendous amount of energy.

It’s how I choose to engage creatively and socially and materially — to pass the gaps of hours between what really matters (family, friendship, connection to a higher power),

Another look at the t-shirt. It does come in black/white too. Etsy’s Later Gator is a key man here, or Khaite’s yellowish Emmylou. B-low the Belt, some other cargo shorts here (I go for a 32 in mens Wrangler) and here (or a pair that look more surf-y here); this necklace is finally live!

But when my focus is elsewhere, the clothes feel more like a nuisance. Not the mention that there is an arming-up quality about cold weather dressing that necessarily affords you the illusion of some protection. In the summer, it’s buns-out-raw. This feels great sometimes, when you’re in good flow, but when you’re looking for some comfort to hook into, it’s more destabilizing than anything else.