thrifted gap shirt, wool pleated skirt* – handmade cowl – blowfish shoes – double tights for warmth
this outfit was brought to you via me via this pin, via honey kennedy via jo gordon. yay internet!
*i’m not sure i can actually call this skirt thrifted? it came from a closet at my grandparents, which meant it belonged to someone else in the family before me (aunt? cousin? grandma?). there’s a treasure trove of vintage clothes just waiting at my grandparents. i hope someday to have an excuse to borrow her floor length magenta sheath dress from the ’60′s with a swooping back, because it’s stunning. hopefully i’ll fit into it when the time comes, too… both my grandma’s were slightly more petite than me in their 20′s and 30′s. there’s also a rainbow of kilts and plaid skirts in those closets, as that’s my scottish side. i like them, but i’ve never really managed to integrate that into my day to day style.
so, i’m getting my hair cut tonight. and as usual, i’m torn about what to do. i’m one of those people who acts brave about making big decisions, but as soon as that piercing gun is approaching my ear, or the roller coaster is climbing the first big hill, i’m thinking (and sometimes yelling) ‘WHAT HAVE I DONE?!?!?!’ so part of me is thinking: my ends are fried, i should probably just chop off quite a bit, it’s been a while since you had short hair, it’s just hair, it grows back. this part of me is thinking maybe kind of an angled bob (probably without the bangs), or shaped like this kinda, but of course poufier and wavy/culier than either of those, more like this on a really good day (except without the gorgeous jessica alba face attached). the other part of me says: just take off a little, you love the length, what about braids, you’ve been into braids recently, you’ll cryyyyyy without it. guys, i’m a total weenie when it comes to hair cuts. it’s really ridiculous.
so. my questions to you are this: do you have any closets in a family members house full of generations worth of cloths? have you gotten anything amazing from it?
and: what should i do? should i go crazy and chop off a few inches? cowboy up, eliza, it’s just hair?
I say don’t cut too much. Like you said, braids.
Sadly, I don’t have any relatives’ closets that are waiting for me to rifle through them. When my maternal grandmother passed, my style was different. So, I passed up some very nice (and expensive) clothing. Even some J. Crew! My grandma was so stylish, and I think that as I’ve matured I’ve adopted her love for classic fashion just a bit. She was also the knitter of the family
I mean, my mom knits, but it’s not her fave.
I like the flattering simplicity of this one. Pleated skirts are so functional (big steps!) with nice shapes. My grandmothers wear/wore rather traditional sets of clothes that look a little like those pajama sets, in blue, grey or brown tiny floral printed cotton… So nope I do not have vintage clothes to explore. And I’d say go easy on the chopping because I myself always feel handicapped after cutting my hair… It ends abruptly when I touch it (for eg when I tie it up) and it makes me sad.
Summer (it will come!) is a nice time for bohemian-styles and longer hair looks pretty nice for it, me thinks. 
This is so elegant! I love it! I repinned the first hair option because I love it a lot. I might try it this summer. I go back and forth between super short and long hair so quickly and easily that I couldn’t have offered you any advice. I know you made the right difficult choice, though!
First off, I should tell you I’ve always envied your hair. You have the total opposite of what I have, and therefore I am madly in love with it. The colour, the pre-Raphaelite curls. But I know that whenever you do cut your hair (like when you got bangs), it looks amazing. I think you have magic hair that would look good no matter what. Secondly, I love those boots! And thirdly, I hear that double tights are what all the ladies in Scandinavia do to keep warm from September to May.
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