Tag: fashion
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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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February Fashion Challenge, Day 3: I was really hoping that he will come through
Anybody who knows me knows how much I love K-pop girl groups. I love awkwardly following K-pop choreography and miming high notes in my shower. I’ve lost hours of my life breaking down LOONA’s music videos frame-by-frame and falling down Twitter conspiracy theory rabbit holes. I literally wrote a 20-page college paper on Produce 101…
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February Fashion Challenge, Day 2: Yin / Yang
The Chinese characters for yin and yang hold many meanings, but nobody on the Internet can seem to agree about them. According to the dozen or so websites I skimmed in preparation for this theme, they represent moon and sun, dark and light, feminine and masculine, earth and sky. What holds across all of these…
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February Fashion Challenge, Day 1: “On Wednesdays, we wear pink”
Today was the first day of my new life as a fashionista: at least, that’s what I reminded myself of as I dragged myself to the shower this morning…
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February Fashion Challenge: Introduction
Hi, world! I have a confession: I’m 27, and I still feel like I don’t know how to dress myself. There are a lot of reasons why I ended up this way. First, there’s the experience of growing up in a household where most of my clothes were donated to me by my older cousins.…
Mo Kim 