fashion | Six Ten

It’s been a damp and dreary week here in Southeast Michigan and I am sure that we are all looking forward to a weekend where we may potentially hit 60 degrees (even with rain, we’re going to see a lot of people breaking out their shorts and showing off blinding winter-white legs, it’s kind of a Midwest tradition). I have to get my taxes done and I hope to get out for a run – I’ve been itching to get back to it. There’s nothing like being outside in the damp spring, getting my shoes sprung and moving my aging body more. This article made me even more excited about it. Harry and Murakami-san Talk Running

I absolutely love Jenna Park’s Substack and even though I am not an artist like she is, her recent newsletter Start Where You Are really resonated with me.

This week, several pins featuring penny loafers made their way to my boards. I sort of blame that show about JFK Jr and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. I’ve not watched it, but pictures of her are showing up everywhere and it’s caused a bit of throwback fever for her style. I always loved her fashion sense, and in the ’90s when I weighed about 100 lbs I could do a low-cost emulation of her style and sort of pull it off. I had sleeveless black linen dresses and black ankle boots and flared jeans and black turtlenecks and I still find a beautiful white button down shirt to be a never-fail choice (they’ve been ubiquitous in my closet since I was in high school). However, to be frank, in my eyes she and JFK Jr were a toxic hot mess and even her fantastic clothes couldn’t make me like her.

I absolutely love the red socks! Original pin here.

I can’t tell if this is a man or a woman but when the clothes are this good it doesn’t matter one bit. Original pin here.

As always, I hope you are well and happy wherever you are and gratuitous cat picture as a thank you for reading to the end!

I’m off work now until January 2 and looking forward to time with my family and by myself, doing things that bring me joy and that I don’t usually have a lot of time for during the normal work weeks. I made a big pot of homemade vegetable soup over the weekend, dried some orange slices for a garland, finished a knitting project last week and am close to finishing another, finished a book… we have a jigsaw puzzle locked in, three gingerbread house kits, and I have crafting projects and books to last me until June if my free time allowed. 2025 has been a ride and I’m ready to lock the door and light the candles and shut the world out until I have to rejoin in 2026. With that said, here are a few recent pins to round out the year. Thank you for joining me in this humble space this year and God willing we will see each other on the other side.

This is my plan for my dried orange slices. I doubt it will look this neat.

I like this idea too.

I love this look. I have always wanted to be the kind of woman who could wear a little scarf around her neck like this and look natural but I’ve never been successful. This makes me want to try.