Essentials for Moving To a Big City


7 HUGE Ways Moving To A Big City Changes Your Wardrobe
strappy gladiator heels
The Heels Get Higher……When you live in a smaller town or in a suburban area, you tend to bust out heels for only special occasions or go with a wedge. The four inch Gianvito Rossi heels you bought on Gilt on a whim are probably the crown jewel of your closet, and they’ve never been worn. When you move to a big city, you’ll want to be up there with the skyscrapers and where the action is. Anyone who has ever prowled through an urban jungle in stilettos can attest, 4 inch heels feel right at home in New York, LA, and Chicago
 
Comfortable clothes get a makeover.
long cardigan
The Gap polo and skinny jeans that are your comfort wear in a small town or suburb will slink to the back of your closet in exile when you move to a big city. Your new “comfortable” staples are vegan leather leggings, black suede booties, and your boyfriend’s The Smiths tee
You start appreciating what “city bag” and “city shoe” entail.
motorcycle jacket
Before moving to a major city, you were probably puzzled by all of the clothing staples that are named the “city bag” “city coat” or “city shoe”. Now that you live in a postcard perfect locale, you totally get it. A city shoe is the perfect leather loafer that manages to be tremendously comfortable and painfully chic at the same time, so that you can hoof it 30 blocks to your favorite Korean beauty product store after your Bikram yoga class. A city bag, you ask? Why, that’s only the most perfect bag for slinging over your shoulder as you hit up every champagne bar in a 2 mile radius after a long day at the office
You can appreciate that black is a spectrum.
all black ootd
Any self-respecting city gal can look at a piece of otherwise “black” clothing and tell you if its charcoal, midnight blue, ink, oil slick, true black, off black, blue black, or that incredible green toned black that Burberry does so well. Small town people and suburbanites see only black, a city girl sees possibilities….and a potential mismatching of two black garments fiasco on the horizon.
Handbags start coming in two sizes
chanel wallet on chain
When you live in the suburbs or a small town, handbags can be every shape, size, and color. However, when you move to the big city…any big city really….you start to notice that handbags start coming in two sizes: carryall and teeny tiny. That’s because a city girl is either carrying everything with her that she will need from 8 AM to 8 PM, or she’s carrying only what she needs to hit up a happy hour at a swank hotel bar with her work pals, girl gang, or significant other. It’s either an entire Louis Vuitton damier carryall of life essentials, or lip-gloss and mints in a Bottega Veneta clutch with city chicks.
Layering becomes an art form….and you are Picasso.
over the knee OTK black boots
When you move to a big city, you’re likely spending more time about town and less time stopping back by home just to “grab a jacket” or “change your shoes”….so it stands to reason that your layer game would get way strong. City gals know how to layer up to stay cozy during the morning commute, and still look enticingly minimal with some flirty skin showing for a happy hour with the boyfriend at 6 PM.
You stop having “clothes” and start having a wardrobe.
outfits
City women don’t have time for pieces that aren’t endlessly mixable and matchable, which is why they curate a consistently badass wardrobe rather than just buying clothes. Suburban and small town ladies live at a slower pace, so they don’t have to pick out an outfit that can go from morning meetings to evening dinner in a fast paced urban metropolis. City chicks can go into their closets in the dark, pull out a few pieces and go…because when you’re up at 5 AM to beat traffic to your high-rise office in the city center…you have to.

Written By Mischaela Advani with www.bigcityblonde.com

 

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