{"id":9522,"date":"2012-10-25T13:03:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T17:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/?p=9522"},"modified":"2014-08-14T12:23:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T16:23:28","slug":"the-girl-with-the-sequin-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/2012\/10\/25\/the-girl-with-the-sequin-shorts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Girl With The Sequin Shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a confession to make. I’ve got a thing for sequins. A thing for rhinestones. Quirky quotes. Glitter. If it sparkles, I love it. There has to be at least three dresses, two sweaters, a vest, a skirt, a shirt, and a pair of shorts covered in sequins. And that\u2019s without actually going to check. This past week, I wore the most adorable bronze sequin shorts from Authentic Icon to class.<\/p>\n

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I was wearing these with a chambray button down shirt. black tights, and boots.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But that was an exception. More often than not, when I buy something crazy, something sparkly, it languishes behind chambray button-downs and sensible skirts.
\nI was running for the bus (in cute little heeled booties) to get to Manhattan last week for the Design Fair, wearing a Chanel-esque black sweater (with chunky appliqued flowers around the collar and matte-finish sequins woven in with the yarn) and a rust-colored faux-suede pencil skirt, and I got at least three strange looks. The bus is less than half a block away from my house. It feels like there\u2019s an unspoken dress code of what\u2019s \u201ccool\u201d where I live. The uniform is basically a pair of Uggs, either (tucked in) sweatpants or skinny jeans, and a brand-name T-shirt with the logo across the chest. I’ve honestly never owned a pair of Uggs, or worn sweatpants and a brand T-shirt like that to go somewhere. To me, it\u2019s almost an insult to the nice stuff I have.
\nI\u2019ve been told that it\u2019s \u201cweird\u201d to dress up all the time, that there\u2019s \u201cno reason\u201d to wear out my nice things in everyday use, to \u201csave it for something special\u201d. The way I see it, every day is special. Not in that cheesy, \u201cyou should be happy because you\u2019re alive\u201d kind of way… but in a way that\u2019s closer to \u201cyou woke up this morning, you have these beautiful things, you should use them\u201d. Maybe going to a school with a uniform contributed to this, maybe it\u2019s me buying clothes either secondhand or on sale with money I worked hard for, maybe it\u2019s just because I\u2019d rather stand out for what I wear than look like everyone else. But even though I stepped out of my house feeling fabulous, happy to be finally wearing my sequin shorts, by the time I got to FIT I was pretty self-conscious. I\u2019d never worn them before. Thankfully, my friend Nicole told me they were cute and that made me feel a little better, I still\u00a0wasn’t\u00a0fully comfortable. But I made it through the day. And next week, I think I\u2019m breaking out a sequined dress.
\n\u201cIn order to be\u00a0irreplaceable, one must always be different.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u2015 Coco Chanel<\/em><\/p>\n

What’s the most outlandish thing you’ve worn? How did you feel in it?<\/p>\n

Emily<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a confession to make. I’ve got a thing for sequins. A thing for rhinestones. Quirky quotes. Glitter. If it sparkles, I love it. There has to be at least three dresses, two sweaters, a vest, a skirt, a shirt, and a pair of shorts covered in sequins. And that\u2019s without actually going to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":233,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7503,14983],"tags":[5133,147,18688],"class_list":["post-9522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsevents","category-precollege-bloggers","tag-emily","tag-fashion","tag-sequin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9WbqN-2tA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/233"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}