Fete Lifestyle Magazine April 2017 Fashion Issue | Page 65

don’t know when it happened, but somehow in the last year I woke up and realized that every day, I wear black! Looking back at my Facebook page you’d think I was talking about someone else entirely. A quick peruse of my “liked” and tagged photos over the years and I can hardly find even one outfit that is all black. In fact, call me the queen of color.

My photos would lead a person to believe that throughout the year I’m either headed to a spring wedding, off to the Caribbean or bundled up to brave a Windy City famous arctic gale force gust; regardless, always with a splash of color. In-fact, I absolutely love wearing vibrant reds and pastel pinks and any sort of playful print, but coming back to corporate

America after three years of

beach life, left me feeling

utterly unstylish and

outdated; I hadn’t shopped

for new “school clothes” in

years. It seemed for this last

fall and winter I was

completely at a loss. My

closet was stocked with

more resort casual looks,

consisting of light and airy

flimsy fabrics; perfect for a year in Costa Rica, not so perfect for 6 months of winter in the midwest.

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