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Trente-Huit

When: August 13, 2023 // Weather: hot // Real life: birthday excursion to the art museum and fancy dinner

If I’m only going to post on this blog 2 or 3 times a year, might as well make it count right? LOOK AT THIS FABULOUS SET. I WORE IT ON MY BIRTHDAY. I’ve also worn the pieces separately multiple times, but the set is a statement to be made by a Bday Queen.

Just for fun, I searched the Sarah’s Real Life archives and found my birthday ‘fit from the year I started this blog (2012). BEHOLD little long-haired, 27-year-old Sarah rocking her Anthro mini skirt and beaded wedges. Would I wear that now? Absolutely not, as I am currently in my minimalist-Coastal-Grandmother-sustainable-luxury-casual phase. But law school Sarah loved that outfit and I love that for her.

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Grown

When: Sunday, April 10, 2022 // Weather: 60s // Real life: Sunday Funday at the art museum + cocktails and dinner

Many moons ago when I was a brand new college grad entering the work force, I used to buy lots of tweed and other “mature” looking clothes because I desperately wanted to look older and not like the wee baby 22-year-old idiot I was. Youth is wasted on the young, as they say.

22-year-old me would have worn a jacket like this one (but an H&M version because I made $8/hour) with a pencil skirt and heels because that’s what serious, grown-up, working women wear. Right? I was basically Romy and Michele when they wear suits and put their hair in French twists and ask for the “business woman special” at that diner. (Just for kicks, check out this post from 2013.)

You see where this is going, right? Fast forward a *small handful* of years and I still like tweed, but I intentionally pair it with distressed jeans and sneakers …in the hopes that I’ll get mistaken for a 20-something.

ME + EM jacket // Celine belt // Mott & Bow jeans // Veja sneakers (sustainable brand) // Saint Laurent bag