Perfect Date Night Outfit

You know, minus the whole dating part

I've flipped through many a magazine with headlines like "The Hottest Date Night Dresses for Spring" and "What To Wear On Your First Date So He Loves You Forever," so for a while during my ill-informed youth I thought that dating would require a stressful level of thought about wardrobe. 

Cool, fun and flirty were burned into my 16-year-old brain in preparation for dating. 

From those years I gathered this information on what a date night outfit required: it had to be fun. It had to be flirty. It had to show your favorite assets. But wait, don't show too much now girl. Did I mention flirty? And cool. Show how cool you are. They love that.  Cool, fun, and flirty were burned into my 16-year-old brain in preparation for dating.

So, it would seem that now, as a 25-year-old who is purposefully not dating, all my hours of research was for naught. Except, no. In what world am I only those things for the sake of a date? I will be cool, I will be fun, and if I damn well please, I will be flirty. And I will be all of those things even if my only date for the day is with my laptop and cup of coffee. 

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To The City

This weekend I had a realization hit me like a ball to the face. No, it wasn't that these boots are my everything, which they are, and it wasn't even how drastically this faux-suede mini has changed my life, which I assure you, it has.

"I'm currently planning, plotting and scheming, but until I have a  solid plan, I'll be running around the city taking pictures in front of yellow taxi cabs."

Walking through Atlanta, it dawned on me that I really, really needed to move back to New York. It was such an overwhelming moment. It's scary, those moments, because the immediate next thought is, "Well, girl, how are you going to make it happen?"

But, if your dreams don't scare you, they aren't big enough, right? I'm currently planning, plotting and scheming, but until I have a solid plan, I'll be running around the city taking pictures in front of yellow taxi cabs. 

Photos by Kaye McCoy

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