40 Candles 🎂

 This is the second Sixteen Candles reference I’ve made in the past week. Wearing this style hat makes me think of 80’s teen goddess Molly Ringwald in that film. Any 80’s kid knows what I’m talking about. Those movies were seriously the best. Being a Yeshiva girl where the only requirement for being “fashionable” in high school was a wearing floor length denim parachute, I recall being in awe at the styles in movies about public school kids. Why did they look so cool??? Were they allowed to buy and wear whatever they wanted??? Public school seems to begin at the crack of dawn, so what time did they have to wake up to pull together outfits with such clarity???The best was how if they went out AT NIGHT, a foreign concept to a Yeshivah student who first got home at 5:30, they CHANGED INTO EVEN COOLER OUTFITS. These Brat Packers had lives yo.  Yeah, I know it was a movie but it all seemed representative of an adolescent life that was simply not an option for me. The good news is that I can wear whatever the F I want now. If I want to dress like Molly did, ain’t no one to tell me I can’t.

This bulky red Maje sweater was delicious on a crisp autumn afternoon. There’s nothing better than the right sweater this time of year, when we don’t overheat by having to layer on a coat. The baggy, distressed jeans with the tapered ankle are so 80’s too. Red kicks were an obvious choice. Red was huge during that decade and so was being super matchy. The sneaks are Margiela btw. Topping this off is one of my favorite J Crew hats. A dark gray wider brim number that I love to wear tilted forward or back. Any angle works for this hat. It’s an easy fit that looks fly this time of year. Now if only I had some guy named Jake to yearn after from afar...