Dear Dorigen,
It was great seeing you and the family in Chicago recently. As you know I had some sort of mystery accident that caused pain and numbness in my side and has made mobility challenging. With challenge comes great fashion responsibility, so here’s how I’m coping.
1) Summer Dresses
Likely the injury is a pinched nerve, and the first thing that was prescribed to me was loose-fitting clothing. I have been in a cute summer dress on the daily for over a month now; if I look like a drunken mummy when I walk, then I am going to make for damn sure that I am dressed like a fabulous, rich, cultured, fashionable drunken mummy. Some of my GO TOs…
Green African Print – Etsy | Multi-color Tiered Dress – Nordstrom Rack | Top Shop Striped Dress – I found it on Poshmark | Green Etsuko – MM.Lafleur | Printed Shirt Dress | Midi Floral Dress – Tory Burch – Sold out.
2) Disruptor Sandals
I am currently on another self-imposed clothing spending freeze, so when I spotted these exceedingly cushioned, yet elaborate Fila “Disruptor” sandals that legit help me walk and make me feel fabulous, I asked Pete to buy them for me. Just sayin. As soon as I stepped foot at work in these sandals, I was shocked to be inundated with comments from the young bloods. I thought I was going old school, old person (or as you called them “clodhoppers”), but apparently these were the sandal of Lollapalooza 2019. I have had strangers come up to me and say things like, “Oh, I’ve been wanting to see these in person” (because they are apparently in a bunch of fashion blogs, including ours now). Werk.
3) Fashion Cane
I have been threatening to buy a fashion cane for years now, for the various innocuous injuries I incur (e.g., a stubbed toe, slight headache, etc.), and now that I absolutely need one, I bought a standard cane and added my own flare. I just happened to already own an oversized fur rabbit keychain that has fulfilled my fidgety heiress fantasy.
I got both of these keychains on Etsy
I will know for certain if it’s a pinched nerve or something else after I get my MRI results. The MRI scan was a trip. They do absolutely everything they can to make you comfortable, so you don’t have a flailing panic attack when trapped within the loud coffin machine. I was wrapped in a blanket and given multiple pillows, earplugs, and headphones, and they offered to play absolutely any music (I had them do a YouTube mix of Beirut). On further reflection, I might have gone with one of my “five desert island albums”—Kelly’s Shoes, Marlo Thomas and Friend’s Free to Be You and Me, Digital Underground’s Sex Packets, Sonic Youth’s EVOL (you bought me that), and anything by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone.
So, that was my long way of asking you—what are the five albums you would take with you to a desert island?
Love,
Em
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