Weekend Update

This week, sharing this chic midi tee dress from Madewell, currently 25% off.

I love tee dresses! I wear them all the time. Definitely one of my “preschool pickup outfits” (believe me I have much more shameful outfits some days). Easy comfortable and machine washable. And I love the color on this one and the slit.

2. Start with this piece, from the Atlantic, about an influencer’s “surprise” engagement. Wow! Do you ever follow these events with tons of updates? I never do. I’m an old lady and get bored of the whole thing within one or two photos.

3. An interesting piece, via The Business of Fashion, about very expensive vs inexpensive cashmere. I’m still a cashmere addict. Always have always will.

4. I have mixed feelings piece, via the WSJ, on the biggest ways people waste money. There’s also a follow up with the best money advice people ever got. Some of the advice is good, some other…well its up to you to decide. I don’t think it’s necessarily productive to shame people for their latte drinks. The NYT also did a piece on that! Honestly the WSJ piece seems a little lazy and I usually love the Journal.

5. This week I read A Manual For Cleaning Women, by Lucia Berlin.

So how I found my way to this book is kind of random. I really love the book Runaway, by Alice Munro, and then I recently heard that Pedro Almodovar, the director, had made a movie based on a character, Juliet, who is in a few of the stories. I was so impressed by Almodovar doing this that I then decided to research his favorite books, and he listed this as one of his very top. So I got it! And it’s wonderful. The style is clean, direct, and very very atmospheric. Not light reading though. Not necessarily “feel good”. But not pretentious. Just incredible art. If you like short stories, and if you like Pedro Almodovar (I can totally see why this is one of his top books), I highly recommend A Manual For Cleaning Women.