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Today I am mostly catching up on emails and running errands with a few brief meetings in between. After long weekends, Mondays are always spent playing catch up before I can get down to any real work for the week. I’m staying casual in denim and a tee but tried to spruce it up a bit with a fun color combination and by adding the white tuxedo shirt pleats under my tee.
As S. departs for her year far far away from academichic central, I am feeling a bit nostalgic. I also spent yesterday evening holding baby e., which had me thinking about how much we have changed since we all first met.
We have received many reader questions about how we met and how we decided to start our blog. Well…
I feel like I have been friends with these two, and have had an intimate knowledge of their closet, forever. I met E. my first day on campus four years ago and we quickly took to each other both socially and intellectually. Our first day of seminar she complimented my outfit and I knew there was more then contemporary art talk in our future. I met S a year and half later, after many shopping trips with E had transpired. S and I would often compliment each other’s ensembles in class. By the end of the semester, we were walking together after every class chatting about running or fashion or bonding over our hair struggles. I introduced E and S a short while later and it only took a few shopping trips and a few more afternoons at the coffee shop to know that fashion, while just one of our many mutual interests, was what made our trio tick.
We all liked reading style blogs and thought that our status as feminist Ph.D. students who, against all stereotypes, actually care about style gave us a relatively unique viewpoint that would be fun to share and add to that style blogging community. We were always consulting each other on what to wear for the first day of teaching, a meeting with our advisor, a class presentation, or a conference, and one day, we just started throwing around the idea of a style blog that would answerer these questions for other academics. I think it was on one of our marathon shopping trips that we solidified the idea.
These two incredible women are now two of my closet friends and my regular confidants about way more than fashion!
Safe travels S.!
A.
Tagged A., denim skirt, graduate school, patterned shoes
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Neckline Detail, originally uploaded by academichic.
Necklace detail, originally uploaded by academichic.
Love it! The three of you are so inspiring and kind. I’m glad you’re all pals and bloggers.
Also, I really like your outfit today. Ok — I like pretty much all of the outfits on here. But this one is so simple, yet stylish.
I’m learning a lot from you all!
Hi there! I found your blog a little while ago and am really enjoying it (I’m working my way through your archives). I’m especially liking the colour studies – up to now I have just been winging it as far as combining colours, but I find your colour wheels etc very thought-provoking. I too wish S. all the best in Germany. I hope she keeps on posting – I’m especially interested as I lived in southwest Germany for nearly 10 years in the 80s/90s.
The texture in this composition is charming: the ruched neckline, the tuxedo pleats and the ribbed tank work together so well.
I love how you layered various necklines here, and that necklace is gorgeous.
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Love how you’ve combined the tee and shirt. I’ll definitely try this out.