5 Thrift Shop Pieces Mini Haul, Try On & How to Style
See the 5 thrift shop pieces that I bought from London, and how I style them here!
Fashion Dictionary: A Romanian to English Guide (Tongue in Cheek)
Writing a style blog in English as a native Romanian speaker is certainly fun, but sometimes also challenging. Luckily my English is near native (so I’ve been told), so I can easily express myself in my second language. Chances are if I don’t know a word in English, I probably don’t know it in Romanian either. But even so, sometimes there are some specific Romanian words related to style or fashion that I know since I’ve been a child, and…
Birthday Musings: 5 Lessons I Learned This Past Year
As I’m hitting Publish on this post, I’ve just finished polishing off a luscious piece of my birthday Lemon Meringue cake. “Let them eat cake!” Marie Antoinette (allegedly) proclaimed. Well, today I totally agree with her! Because if you can’t have cake for breakfast on your birthday, then what even is the point of this whole getting older thing? And as I am getting older and (just a little bit) wiser, I wanted to share some things I’ve learned since…
A Case for Old School Femininity in Today’s World
I think it’s fair to say thatย old school femininity in today’s world is a bit of a forgotten concept. I notice aย lot of people, men and women alike, associate femininity and grace with a passe demeanour from a bygone era. They equate it with weakness and female submission, or even with an anti-feminist outlook. Which is, to put it gently, a crock! Femininity has nothing to do with not being able to hold your own, with trying to please society…
Your Style is in the Details
As it is often said, the devil is in the details. Well, I say your style is in the details just as much! Everybody can learn to put together a “correct” outfit, following the advice that fashion magazines and TV shows dole out. It’s easy to create an outfit that will look right and won’t break any fashion rules (more on that here). But it’s a fair guess to say that that outfit also won’t really be imaginative, different or…
