July 28, 2010

Biking In Fashion

I typically bike in a skirt, which can present certain challenges if the city where you live in freezing in July. When I went out this week I wasn’t wearing a hat and just about caught an earache. I slapped on my crochet beret tout suite.

I should be wearing a helmet, you say. Didn’t the popular summer read One Day make you realize that it doesn’t really matter in life whether you wear a helmet or not? Well, I conformed and got a helmet anyway. The only even remotely cool one I found is actually a skater helmet by Bell.

Besides dresses, I branched out and now wear rompers (Read: Sort of like a Skort) with my old safari jacket and a scarf or the cut offs that I’ve spent countless hours destroying and distressing this summer, and generally taking my frustrations out on—work stress and otherwise. Biking helps alleviate that stress, too, plus now I have killer arms. Pair them with a short sleeve cashmere turtleneck sweater and you’re set.—Michelle