the red birks were clearly a gateway drug

my obsession with 🍅 red continues

Oct 29, 2024

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I’m having so much fun adding color to my wardrobe, I don’t even recognize myself. Good reminder that style doesn’t have to be something you land on and are finished with forever - it’s constantly evolving.

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From the vault: the temporal nature of clothes

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the two binaries that we think our wardrobes should fall into. Either it’s cheap fast fashion and it’s bad and falls apart after two wears, or it’s an “investment” and needs to be something we must wear for the next twenty years. (FYI, hate to take this shopping excuse away from you, but clothing is never an investment. Unless it’s one of a very few designer bags, no fashion purchase is ever going to make you money, you just may be able to recoup a little bit of what you spent if you resell it later…

a year ago · 48 likes · 38 comments · Dacy Gillespie

I’m hyper fixated on this particular shade of orangey red - I call it tomato red. If my computer screen is accurate, it’s Pantone shade 172.

Based on these two inspiration images from my fall Pinterest board, I set out to find a tomato red cardigan.

I got lucky and the secondhand gods provided.

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AND this coat from Universal Standard is the exact right shade (gifted, affiliate link, use code INFS-AMBDACY for 10% off).

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But of course, I couldn’t just stop looking, so here are some options if you are under the same spell. As always, I only share recommendations for items that come in sizes up to at least 3X.

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