Look Sharp, Sconnie - Midwestern Fashion Nerd, Chronic Over-thinker

I can't remember being cool

At one point in time, 
I think I felt a little bit cool.
 
I don't know. 
Maybe it was the inordinate amount of attention I was getting for acting like an idiot in public,
or my diet's strange influx in edamame,
or the fact that my once broken hip was finally starting to heal  ... (#lowstandards)

but for a brief period there, I was feeling kind of good. 

I mean- look at me. 
Flippin my red hair around, 
pretending my boyfriend gave me his suit jacket to throw over my skimpy little dress. 
(insider tip: He didn't)

It's precious, really. 
But nowadays, I look at these photos and don't even recognize the person in them. 
It's strange — how fashion can at one point feel so instictive, and the next so foreign.

I mean: I know that this was me, 
but I certainly don't feel that way. 

NYC has a way of taking you off whatever pedestal on which you once sat
and reminding you that you are
in fact
one in a trillion. 
It's tough to feel like you own the city, 
when the city's so good at feeling like it owns you. 

Even so- 
I still believe that it's the folks who can maintain their sense of independence, ownership and ovearall badassedness  - despite being beat down by the heavy hammer of weighty egos - that end up killing it here. 
Because I do know one thing for a fact : 
The cooler you feel, the cooler you are. 

[Or, per Jenna's sage advice: 
the less cool you know/embrace you are, the cooler you are]
Done deal. 

So maybe it's time that I go buy myself a too-tight dress and a boyfriend oversized blazer
and pretend, once again, 
that I run this shiz. 
shoes: windsor smith, dress:?, blazer: vintage



Cheers.






DIY






Jacket: Vince
Dress: Parker
shoes: Schutz




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3 comments:

  1. Jenna OpsahlNovember 9, 2014 at 4:17 PM

    K well you look rad and those shoes are incredible. And I think it's best to get to the point where you realize you aren't cool and then just do what pleases you. Ja feel?

    xx
    scarlettandgiselle.blogspot.com

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    1. Gabrielle @ LookSharpSconnieNovember 9, 2014 at 4:29 PM

      #truth
      new *editor's note w/ this.

      love

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  2. Jenna OpsahlNovember 9, 2014 at 6:42 PM

    #dgaf AND #blessed. Also yeah X-Files is great even if you are just watching it for foxy Fox Mulder. Which I am.

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