I'VE FOUND IT!
My style, that is.
Remember how I searched through Tim Gunn's book to identify my style? Well, on Saturday I discovered the store Anthropologie.
It might as well have been called This Store is For You, Laura--Come In and Swoon.
Swoon I did. And not just from the price tags. (What's a little matter of cost when it comes to defining style?) I was awed. I was amazed. I was giddy. I was in my own personal style heaven.
This is how Anthropologie describes itself: "Offers clothing and decorative home items inspired by other cultures, travel, flea market finds, and antiques."
I love other cultures! I love travel! I love antiques! I can learn to love flea markets!
Seriously, though, I walked through this store in something of a daze. This is going to sound either completely sappy or completely mad, but I felt as though I'd come home. Finally, someone got me. Even the parts of me that I didn't recognize until I saw them fashioned into clothing or designed in dishware. Like the brown wool coat dress with the full skirt and embroidered hem. Or the butterfly china. Or the brown felt cloche hat that made me long to live in a time and place where I could wear such a hat.
Being the dreamer that I am, I dreamed of a possible future where I am a writer who travels to conferences and book tours wearing silk wool trousers or a 1920s inspired shift dress. And then returns home, to the London flat with wood floors and open spaces filled with bright prints and subtle pen-and-ink designs.
I bet in that future, I can wear a cloche hat and get away with it.
If you want to take a peek into my psyche, visit:
http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/index.jsp
Remember how I searched through Tim Gunn's book to identify my style? Well, on Saturday I discovered the store Anthropologie.
It might as well have been called This Store is For You, Laura--Come In and Swoon.
Swoon I did. And not just from the price tags. (What's a little matter of cost when it comes to defining style?) I was awed. I was amazed. I was giddy. I was in my own personal style heaven.
This is how Anthropologie describes itself: "Offers clothing and decorative home items inspired by other cultures, travel, flea market finds, and antiques."
I love other cultures! I love travel! I love antiques! I can learn to love flea markets!
Seriously, though, I walked through this store in something of a daze. This is going to sound either completely sappy or completely mad, but I felt as though I'd come home. Finally, someone got me. Even the parts of me that I didn't recognize until I saw them fashioned into clothing or designed in dishware. Like the brown wool coat dress with the full skirt and embroidered hem. Or the butterfly china. Or the brown felt cloche hat that made me long to live in a time and place where I could wear such a hat.
Being the dreamer that I am, I dreamed of a possible future where I am a writer who travels to conferences and book tours wearing silk wool trousers or a 1920s inspired shift dress. And then returns home, to the London flat with wood floors and open spaces filled with bright prints and subtle pen-and-ink designs.
I bet in that future, I can wear a cloche hat and get away with it.
If you want to take a peek into my psyche, visit:
http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/index.jsp
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