Sustainable-ish Style, Secondhand, Small, Size-Inclusive
These small brands (all women-owned) will help you live out the #princesscore aesthetic of your dreams. You'll find size-inclusive styles here as well as sustainable and ethical practices, because a true princess would make sure her dress was made for her curves without hurting the earth or its people.
These gift guides represent the parents, kids, female-owned, Black-owned, POC-owned, one-person-owned, hardworking small businesses making their way in the DMV. I urge you to buy small this year, as small-businesses continue to close and community-members continue to lose their livelihoods. Every time you buy something on one of these guides a person who pays taxes, employs locally, and who lives not far from you and me does a happy dance. These are the people who will remember your name and than you for your 100th purchase, who will be personally upset if something happens with shipping, or who crafted your gift with their own hands. That's something that makes a gift truly special.
If you've taken a #maskie in the last few months, you're not alone! Super high fashion and super cute cloth face masks have been popping up more and more ever since CDC recommended wearing cloth masks for the public to stop the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. However, if you're anything like me, realizing the fact that cloth face masks aren't going anywhere both has you mourning your favorite lipsticks and also secretly excited to have another opportunity to show your face mask style in this new pandemic society we live in!
This year, Catherine Feeney of Fashun Chronicles Podcast (formerly Dreamy Realist) and I threw a Galentine's Day event of our own...disguised as a clothing swap. We based the idea on one of my favorite college traditions, and an idea from Elizabeth Cline's book, "Conscious Closet" AND because Catherine asked me to be a host on her fabulous podcast.
In the past few months I've been sharing a few outfits that come from my beloved Rent the Runway Unlimited subscription...and from newcomer to my wardrobe, Nuuly. Naturally, since rental is still an up-and-coming format for most of us, I've gotten a lot of questions. Here's my breakdown!
Why a dress? Have you ever sponsored a friend for their 5k or sent a little extra money for a friend starting up a charity? Well, Dressember works similarly to that 5k...except my challenge involves no running and instead wearing a dress all of the days of December.
Becoming more sustainable and reducing the amount of waste that I produce is something that I think a lot about. Unfortunately, overhauling your entire life at one time is cost-prohibitive and hard to stick with. I've been taking this whole sustainability thing one step at a time. I've rounded up some of the products that I've actually been using every day that have really been a revelation as I try to make my whole life as plastic-free and carbon neutral as possible:
The Low Low Style 
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