Emma is the fashion features editor at Marie Claire, where she writes deep-dive trend reports, zeitgeisty fashion featurettes on what style tastemakers are wearing, long-form profiles on emerging designers and the names to know, and human interest vignette-style round-ups.
In your teens, your fashion choices were about fitting in with the cool kids at school, dabbling with self-expression, and pissing off your parents. In your 20s, you filled your closet with fun, low-stakes, and trendy pieces that changed with your moods and the seasons. Now that you're in your 30s, you've invested in your Grown Woman essentials—the perfectthat signal to the world,"I am a fully realized adult with a wardrobe to match.
It's really frustrating to have to relearn how to dress my body again and again. Some days, I just don't have a lot of capacity, so clothes that make my life easier are great. I love a matching set; if the top and the pants go together, and I don't have to think too hard, I buy it.There's so much pressure to maintain how you look despite all the things you go through in your thirties. People get married, have babies, and their bodies change.
The pantsuit has always been a sign of female strength, and I was trying to dress for the moment. Because that was amoment—it was Donald Trump's first time back on the national stage in a way we had not seen him since he left office—and that suit underscored its importance. And the suit worked in the sense that it was something I could put on and not have to think about ever again. When I was on stage that night, I was focused on my questions rather than what I was wearing.
My style still fluctuates quite a bit between girly, more androgynous, or even masculine. But my favorite outfits now are ones that play in all of those spaces at once—a really baggy oversized pant paired with a daintier heel and some kind of structured top that’s at once concealing and revealing.My pregnancy era has been my favorite style era to date. It was really liberating to have a new body shape to dress.
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