Styling The Things I'll Never Toss But Never Wear

Either highly sentimental or difficult to style or something I'm "collecting" (hoarding), I attempt to make outfits out of my least wearable pieces, and come out with some of my favorite looks ever.

Before I get into the actual meat & potatoes of this, this post & the resulting photos turned out to be more meaningful to me than I anticipated. For one thing, I put together some of the most fun, and in my opinion, best outfits I ever have. For the other, before I started working on this, I was having a truly awful day/week.

I, you, we, probably everyone in 2024 struggle with anxiety. I have it basically under control, but my Dr and I decided to fuss around with my medications, and the side effects have been uncontrollable anxious spiraling. A doomsday feeling I can’t pin on any single issue, so I can’t fix it. It’s what a blanket of dread, and it gives me waves of self-doubt and shame. I fell into a pit of what the fuck am I doing. Of course it will pass, but at the moment I do not feel horny, rich, or lazy, and the last thing I wanted to do was continue writing about myself, doing this newsletter which is so me, me, me, because this week I haven’t really liked myself very much.

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