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A simple outfit that's becoming my go-to uniform for summer weekends: a T by Alexander Wang classic pocket tank, a jersey maxi skirt from Zara, Rag & Bone Vespa sunglasses, Hawaiana flipflops (invisible, but there), a great big silver cuff from a market in Peru, and a solid leather tote I picked up at the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul many moons ago.  Most of that's not available anymore, but you can come pretty close.

Some options, and some secrets...

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This is where I was swimming last month.  I know I have yet to tell you all about my Super Duper Mexico Vacation, but I still haven't finished organizing all my photos and thoughts.  Needless to say, it was awesome.  I'm back in the big city now, but I'll be damned if I give up my water time.  So...

Husband and I have joined the pool!  We started this week, committing to four full months of membership (gotta get those discounts where you can, and the obligation to keep it up is just a bonus), and absolutely love it.  My pool's not as amazing as the Caribbean, but it's pretty damn wonderful.  All this has made me think it would be a good time to go over some pool essentials.

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Trust me, you need these things...

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0 harem revival

When I was 15 I bought some şalvar (otherwise known as harem pants or, less elegantly, drop-crotch pants) on a summer trip to Turkey.  Came back to the States super excited to rock them and was informed that MC Hammer had beaten me to it.  Needless to say, that put a damper on my sartorial plans.  Then a few years ago they were back, minus the Hammer, but it was such a frenzied fad and I had such mixed feelings about the whole thing that I couldn't really fully embrace the cultural appropriation at that time.  Then they were gone, as a trend at least.  Now it's all quieted down and they seem to have become, simply, another option.  And I'm much more inclined to pick up a pair.  The other day at Zara I grabbed these silky lovelies on my way to the dressing room on a whim and I actually thought they looked pretty great.

Here's a few more options that I think would be fabulous for the holiday season...
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0 lug von siga

After working for years with C’N’C Costume National, turkish designer Gül Ağış developed her own line Lug Von Siga and has recently been incorporating traditional turkish textile designs into her extremely modern tailored pieces.

For the 2013 Fall/Winter collection she teamed up with photographer Ayten Alpün-Yılmaz and stylist Hakan Öztürk to create a lookbook around the theme of arranged marriages.  The images are richly saturated and dreamlike, haunting and oddly surreal; I can't stop staring.

More gorgeous images from the 2013 F/W lookbook...
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Just a quick note to my very own Identical Cousin - Happy Birthday, Co!  Wish I could be there to celebrate in person!

Here's one more tailor-made song for us to dance around to (albeit long distance) on your birthday:
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