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I guess easy outweighs boring for me

I guess easy outweighs boring for me

Week 2 recap of the Unflattering x Burnt Toast Style Challenge

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As you may know, I’ve collaborated with Virginia Sole-SmithandCorinne Fay to create a style challenge. It’s only a challenge in the loosest sense of the word, because what we’re trying to do is create an awareness of the style rules that live rent free in our heads, figure out our safe outfits, and then bring it all together.

For the three weeks of this style challenge, I will be shifting my usual Thursday discussion thread (a paid subscriber perk) to Friday posts and be debriefing my week of outfits. If you want more details about the challenge (please join us!), you can see them here. This week, we’re honoring our comfort.

We’ve all been sharing our experiences this week over on Instagram (me, Corinne, Virginia) and you’ll find links for any available items at the end of this post. To read Virginia and Corinne’s round up for this week of comfy dressing, head over here to

Burnt Toast by Virginia Sole-Smith
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I was going to break down my week of outfits as I did last week, posting each photo separately and commenting on it, but then I looked at the photos I was going to post…

…and realized there's no point.

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