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February Fashion Challenge, Day 15: Life in (pastel) color
While I’m still having plenty of fun with this challenge, I’m officially past the halfway point – and the honeymoon phase is decidedly over. Some of the themes I have left still make me scratch my head, wondering how I’ll manage to pull them off (if you have ideas for Viking Day, please let me…
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February Fashion Challenge, Day 14: For Jason
For Valentine’s Day, I’d like to do something different – because today’s outfit isn’t about a theme. It’s about a person. I first met Jason at a hole-in-the-wall Korean place, where we sipped bori-cha, gingerly offered each other bites of japchae and soondubu, and exchanged brief snippets of our career and life histories. I had…
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February Fashion Challenge, Day 13: An extra-large pocket of rest
It was bound to happen eventually, but today was the first day where I couldn’t pull together an outfit for other people. It’s not that I’m doing this challenge solely for other people; it’s more that I’ve been focused on expanding my comfort zone, and sharing what I’m wearing is a large part of that…
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February Fashion Challenge, Days 11-12: Back To The Future
It’s the second weekend – and the second double fashion feature! Both Saturday and Sunday’s themes pushed me to get creative with interpretation, giving me lots of room to play with different styles before settling on my final outfits. What’s most interesting about these two themes, though, is how they both engage anxieties and anticipation…
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February Fashion Challenge, Day 10: Half ice, extra sugar
WOW! I didn’t even realize how fast this month has gone, but I’m officially on my tenth day of dressing however the Internet tells me to! Honestly, it’s been a busy month even without the challenge (February is terrible for anybody attending or working in schools), but I’m glad I’ve committed to doing this. Having…
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February Fashion Challenge, Day 9: Every Outfit Everywhere All At Once
“When I choose to see the good side of things, I’m not being naive. It is strategic and necessary. It’s how I’ve learned to survive through everything.” Waymond Wang, Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) Waymond Wang, as my friend Crystal would put it, has big loser energy. At the beginning of Everything Everywhere All…
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February Fashion Challenge, Day 8: Green with excitement
I’m lucky to live in a place 10 minutes away from both beautiful shorelines and top-notch hiking trails: in the grind of my daily work, where I’m often caught up planning out my students’ futures, the sights around me remind me to slow down and appreciate all the vibrant life around me right now. Trees…
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February Fashion Challenge, Day 7: Swapping styles
And just like that, we’re officially done with the first week of the February Fashion Challenge! Whoo! One of the questions I had when I was initially planning this month was how I’d keep my outfits work-appropriate. My company doesn’t demand that we show up in full suits every day, but since we work with…
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February Fashion Challenge, Day 6: Blazin’ hot
“Don’t wear that jacket – only fags would wear something like that.” Years later and I still chafe at those words from my father. Even after I’ve left home, graduated college, and established myself as a professional and an adult, they take me back to 15, when I buried myself in oversized hoodies and tried…
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February Fashion Challenge, Days 4-5: Slim Jims and snapbacks
Happy Sunday! Today, we’re doing a double fashion feature to celebrate the weekend. A fun fact about my job is that I work on Saturdays: in fact, Saturday is the busiest day of my work week. Because I work for an educational program that serves students across the Bay Area, it’s the only day of…
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