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Rouje LENA Dress Review: Is This The Ultimate Date Dress?
The Lena is one of Rouje’s newest dresses. It’s a midi-dress with 13 buttons down the front, a frilled collar and capped sleeves. The dress’ sweetness is offset by a striking red on black Italian inspired spot print… Basically, the Lena is like Jean-Luc Godard meets Fellini. It’s a living the sweet life kind of…
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Rouje GABIN Dress Review: Trying The Dress That ALWAYS Sells Out
Rouje’s Gabin dress, i.e. the dress that always sells out. You’ve seen this dress before… or you’ve at least seen one of its many dupes. With its five buttons running down the front and a tie closure, the Gabin has been copied many, many, many times since it came out two years ago. … but…
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HVN Cherry Lily Dress Review: I Bought a $445 Dress Sight Unseen
From the simple cut to the sweet cherry print, I knew it was only a matter of time before I bought HVN’s cherry Lily dress. … but, I didn’t think I would order it online, sight unseen. $445 USD is a lot to spend on a dress. It’s even more to spend on a dress…
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Rouje SIZE Review: How Do These “French Cool Girl” Dresses Fit?
Hands up if you’ve spent more than one hour on Jeanne Damas’ Instagram.Hands up if you’ve spent more than two hours on Jeanne Damas’ Instagram. … basically, hands up if you’re obsessed with Jeanne Damas‘ effortless Parisienne style. Same.
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Daily Summer Outfit: Réalisation Par Ozzie Dress and Repetto Camilles
WHAT I’M DOING I have a date tonight! Normally I play it coy when a guy asks me for dinner… “No, where do youuu want to go!” but I may have railroaded him into going to a Belgian place that just opened. It’s the first place I’ve found here that serves traditional moules frites (my…
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Walk This Way: GRLFRND Eva Denim Skirt Review
This is a review for the GRLFRND Eva A-Frame Gusset Skirt in “Walk This Way”… Saying the name of the skirt in its entirety is important. Because my first tip off that I wouldn’t love this skirt should have been the unnecessarily long name. The second is that I only thought it was unnecessarily long…
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Turn back time: Styling the best of 2000s today
Sometimes, most times, I get insanely nostalgic for the simple life… The days before we had to deal with existential dread over Apple’s Vision Pro Display XDR TV+ (or whatever it’s called) and where the only technology issue you had was if you had enough minutes left on your Sony Ericsson W800 and if your…
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What I Wore This Week: My husband’s first week-ish in Montreal
Wednesday: Took a visit to my old high school to see their new auditorium, where the school plays and academic ribbon ceremonies now take place, and to learn more about donating a seat. To be clear, it’s not like I live in Bruce Springsteen’s song “Glory Days.” While high school could’ve been better, it also…
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What I Wore: Valentine’s Day staycation
Monday: Since my husband and I are living with my parents for the next year-ish, we I needed a little break from being with them — and Valentine’s Day was the perfect excuse. I wore this APC Madras dress (c. 2009) with HVN x Ancient Greek heart sandals en route (read: in the Uber) to…
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How to Wear High Top Converse in Summer ft. 8 Cool Outfits
“I just wanted to be one of the Strokes, now look at the mess you made me make.”-Arctic Monkeys – “Star Treatment” (2018) In 2004, the arguable (mainstream) peak of the Strokes, I bought my first pair of high top Converse from Urban Outfitters. 12:51 was (and still is) my favourite song — despite being…