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Do you often leave the house in workout clothes…when you aren’t going to the gym, or maybe when you were at the gym hours before, but between making lunch and cleaning up cat vomit you have forgotten to shower and then you figure you don’t need to spruce up for the playground? Do you often buy things online that don’t really fit, but you are too tired to send them back, plus it’s from target and cost $12? Would you best describe your current look as pajama chic (and I’m not talking Prada Spring 2010)? Do you have absolutely no problem wearing mismatched socks? Is your favorite piece of clothing your super plush bathrobe? If so, welcome to the dollhouse friend, we’re glad you’ve come. Now it’s time to break out. (unless it’s before 8am then plush bathrobes are de rigueur) In an effort to change my answers to the above questions, I’ve gone in search of fashionable parents roaming our streets. I figure we all need a little inspiration and a reminder that small changes reap great rewards. Take the extra 30 seconds to put on those bracelets or those ridiculously awesome daisy earrings, not because some schlumpy blogger is looking (in case you were wondering why that chick in her jammies was staring at your shoes) but for one simple reason: you look good, you feel good. And we all deserve to feel good. Now go forth Brooklyn parents and get Dressed, capital D.
Leslie, looking sharp in booties and bangles, not to mention those guns!
Eila with her son Max, lets her boy rock the camo trend while she radiates joy with her color and those daisy earrings I covet.
This beautiful lady and her guys got away before I caught her name, but anyone who can wrangle double trouble while looking this cute is a rock star (hence the shades).
Sarah Moriarty is a writer, editor and adjunct professor teaching composition and literature classes at The College of Staten Island. Sarah’s writing has appeared in such hallowed places as her blog, her mother’s email inbox, the backs of Value Pack envelopes and a waist-high stack of mole skin journals. In addition, Sarah has contributed to F’Dinparkslope.com and edited fiction for Lost Magazine. An excerpt from Sarah’s novel, The Rusticators, is forthcoming in The Brooklyn Writers Space 2013/2014 anthology, The Reader. A resident of Brooklyn for the last eleven years, Sarah lives with her husband, daughter and a dwindling population of cats. Check out more of Sarah’s work at sarahmoriarty.com.