Outfits Not Just Clothes

 This past year there's been a cycling through of so many core styles. I actually wrote a whole piece about the various cores focusing on cabincore last fall, here ! For today's post I'm revisiting the #cottagecore dress I featured on my birthday last September! #thisisforty coat-Asos(similar here ), dress-Anthropologie(similar here ), headband-Soel(similar here ), necklace- Benevolence LA , rings- Mejuri , socks- Kansas City Kitty , boots- Landsend I love that this OOTD is made up so so many unique pieces that run the full gamut of shops, stores, and retailers. The dress and boots are from major American brands with both online and brick and mortar locations.  My coat is from a British online-only company, while the rest of my accessories are from independent, women-owned business(I think) with store fronts and online shopping access. Everything comes together for a perfect cottagecore, romantic, bohemian, springtime ensemble! 

  dress-Anthropologie(more options here ), sunnies- DIFF Eyewear , necklace- Benevolence LA , bag-- Shiraleah , sandals- Born I first became aware of Cottagecore earlier this summer and found it to be an aesthetic I can appreciate and find aspirational , but was not necessarily a style that aligned with my wheelhouse. Well as I've been growing my hair during covid quarantine and having picked up this dress as seen here , I felt that I was ready to tackle #cottagecore here on my 40th birthday!!! Yep, that's right today I turn 40 (but I don't look it). And while it's been a year like no other, I feel excited for my next year, decade, chapter of my life. I think it's fair to say I'm done having babies and ready to move on from the chaos of very little children to the chaos of big kids.  I no longer feel like I have something to proof in my work, writing, sense of self. I'm just going to enjoy and be grateful for the many blessings of family, friends, health, a...