Sooo, Safari Garb is – for the moment – utterly In. When I play with trends, I ask myself the following questions, in this order: What’s in my closet? and What trend should I try? Asking these questions in this order forces you to integrate an old item into a new outfit, with the added bonus of halving the cost of trend experimentation. As I recently switched waitressing gigs, what’s in my closet is an excess of white, button-down shirts. Is there a trend that can transform my WBDs from ho-hum to oh, yum? Hark! It’s Safari Garb!
Forever 21’s South Beach Short($17.80, btw) isn’t just fab Safari Garb; it’s a new item that revitalizes my old WBDs (H&M, obvs). Were the wedges as free as my Mom’s belt, or as cheap as the rest of the ensemble? Hells no. But nobody’s perfekt.