Hello everyone! I’m back in the office today, and by “office,” I mean that I’m on my living room floor with my dog, my laptop, and my caffeine source (three essentials to joyful living, haha). Last week was full of travel, so I’m taking this week to get myself in order by organizing the rubble that is my apartment at the moment.
Let’s talk about high-low skirts for a moment. First of all, can we all agree that they’re essentially mullets that we sit on? Good.
I get that “a mullet that you sit on” is probably not the best way to introduce a style. But here’s the thing – it is what it is. My job isn’t to make you like things, but rather to put out a buffet of options that you can say, “hey, that’s totally something I’d like,” or, “wow, that’s pretty but not for me,” or, “holy crap, woman, what were you thinking?” Every and all reaction(s) are acceptable as long as your expletives are thoughtful and creative.
So yes, this dress is a mullet that you sit on. It’s a floppy peacock tail. A soggy supercape. I’m open to any and all creative descriptions.
Earrings: Joanna Laura Constantine
The Event
And I LOVE it. I wore this dress to the final evening of Fashion Community Week, which was held at the very frou-frou Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. It was a wonderful night of runway fashion from all over the world! I love an event where I don’t feel out of place wearing fake eyelashes, and I was snuggie-level comfortable with my gigantic falsies. More importantly, it was fascinating to see what designers from both the Bay Area and abroad are working on.
As I had meetings in the city in the morning, and was set to meet up with my friend Cory in the afternoon, I had to wrangle a way to change into this outfit on the fly. Long story short, this resulted in a trip to Noe Valley to change in an old high school friend’s place of work which happens to be a 1920’s costume rental store with a bathroom squeezed between sewing machines and feathers. They didn’t bat an eye when I whipped out my can of spray-on body makeup and went to town. Some days are just odd like that, you know?
Cory and I ran over to the Fairmont, which in my opinion is spectacularly beautiful in a very old-world type of way. And let me say, I flew in there with my mullet dress rippling in the wake of my super-leggy supermodel walk and everyone was all like, “omggggg Stig, you’re the sexiest thing to happen to mullets since Billy Ray Cyrus!”
Ok, so clearly that didn’t happen – I actually kind of blended in with the backdrop:
See what I mean? Haha.
Embrace That Mullet
Even so – I loved wearing this thing. It was so flowy and romantic, but then it zaps you with that short skirt in the front. I loved that it was so airy, even a bit frilly, but that it was balanced with short front and the sporty stripe at the ribcage (would have been even better had it been a bit lower, at the natural waist). That balance is what hooked me.
The high-low style, I realized, is all about not taking yourself seriously. You can be elegant and sassy at the same time, provided that your dignity doesn’t interfere and remind you that you’re a few short inches in the front from letting it all hang out.
All of that to say – even if you think the high/low skirt is heinous, I hope you have a business-in-the-front, party-in-the-back type of week. Balanced, flowy, zesty, and not concerned with looking silly. Because the silly parts of life are so often the very best.
Love,
Stig.
PS. Send me your best mullet skirt metaphor and I’ll find a way to incorporate it into every blog post for a week. Challenge asserted.
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