Why My Portland Style Screams “Tourist” the Second I Leave the City
When I first moved back to Eugene from Portland after three years of living in the Rose City, my mum looked me up and down at the train station and…
The M&S Collection Pieces I Set My Alarm For (And You Should Too)
It’s 6:47 AM on a Wednesday morning. My toddler daughter is miraculously still asleep. I’m bent over double in my kitchen wearing yesterday’s yoga trousers and looking like a crazed…
Why Looking “Effortlessly Put-Together” Is Actually the Hardest Thing to Pull Off
Last Tuesday I was waiting in line at Blue Bottle coffee. (Okay fine, don’t laugh – their coffee is actually good.) I was wearing, what I thought was appropriately, little.…
I Got Caught Up in That Viral Primark Co-ord Hype and Here’s What Actually Happened
Disclaimer: I preach about sustainable shopping and all that non fast fashion jazz quite often. But I caved and bought the Primark co-ord that everyone (literally everyone) has been posting…
My Hard-Won Next Sale Survival Guide (Plus the Mistakes That Still Haunt Me)
Let’s just get the obvious bit of this post out of the way: I used to scoff at shopping in sales. After graduating and moving to Boston for my first…
Why I’m Intentionally Wearing the Fashion Mistakes Everyone Forgot About
Last Tuesday morning I found myself; fashionably late for a client meeting; closet standing over a pile of clean laundry I’d been avoiding folding for three days. It was one…
I’m Obsessed with This Morning’s Fashion Game (And Here’s How to Steal Their Looks for Less)
Okay, before you write me off as the lamest millennial in existence (oh hey universe, I see you), let me just say that I’ve become absolutely OBSESSED with fashion/wardrobes on…
My Dad Challenged Everything I Thought I Knew About Getting Dressed (And He Was Annoyingly Right)
It started because I was complaining about what my dad was saying about my clothes during dinner at his house last Christmas. Him: Why are you wearing that potato sack?…
The best shirt dresses for effortless styling
I’ll never forget the moment I realised shirt dresses were life-changing. It was at my friend Emma’s garden party last summer and I’d arrived in what I thought was a…
I Let AI Pick My Outfits for 30 Days and My Life Got Complicated
The irony of writing an article about how ChatGPT would completely change my life if only I let it pick out my outfits each day is that I spend way…