New Fashion Inspiration

I discovered the street fashion blog Advanced Style today.  I am forty or fifty years younger than the average woman Ari Seth Cohen features on his blog, but I have nevertheless found this collection more inspiring than any other fashion blog, magazine, or website I have yet seen.

Here is what I have learned:

You do not need to seem distant and cold to be fashionable.  The warmth and confidence that emanates from a smile will make a person seem more comfortable in her skin and thus more fashionable than those around her.  Evidence:

If you like it, then stop questioning it and wear it.

Embrace the hat.

And most importantly, don't wait around for your "best" body to appear. Wear what you love now in the incredible body you have. As Beatrix Ost, the woman below, says, "In your body is a good place to be."

 


As I was looking through the photos, I kept thinking to myself, "This is the kind of woman I would like to be in forty years."  I stopped myself.  Why wait?  This is the kind of woman I want to be right now.

Northern Exposure

I'm moving to Alaska.

For an as-of-yet undetermined length of time, I will be working on an Alpaca and Llama ranch on the Kenai Peninsula.  I only decided to go last Sunday, and will be leaving in about twelve days.  It's probably a good thing I am leaving so soon, because my excitement grows by the hour and if I had to wait much longer, I'd probably spontaneously combust.

Because that's totally possible.



In the meantime, I'm patching clothes, gathering supplies, and getting everything in order. Mostly, though, I'm wandering around the house waiting to run into someone in my family so I can exclaim, "I'm going to Alaska!" for the sixty-second time.

Also, despite what the title might suggest, I'm trying my hardest not to allow my love of the nineties show Northern Exposure influence my expectations of Alaska, even if I've been in love with Ed since I was sixteen, want a disk jockey like Chris in the Morning, and am very tempted to get a Maggie O'Connell hair cut.

Remember, Olivia: Cicely does not exist.  And even if it did, Ed would now be about forty.

(if you would like to make an AWESOME collage like the totally pro one featured in this post, you can go to Photovisi!  That thing should go in my portfolio!)