As my mother puts it, I'm hard on my clothes. I'm constantly scuffing my shoes, staining my shirts, and stepping on my hems. I'd like to get better at not ruining my clothes, but in the meanwhile I'm working on fixing things that I damage. This bag is a case in point. The last time I used this bag, I was on a research trip to London... that was over two years ago, before I'd written the first word of my dissertation. One of the handles broke, I was stuck using my cruddy backpack for the rest of the trip, and it has spent the past two years in my closet. After a few months in the trunk of my car, I finally brought it to the local cobbler. Two days and eight bucks later, it's back in business! I'm using it now to tote around my now totally complete dissertation draft. Why did it take the same amount of time to pay someone a small sum of money to perform a basic repair as it did to research and write a 250+ page dissertation? I have no idea, but I feel like now I'm ready to conquer the world!
I wore this for a day of working in the library and running errands on an unseasonably cool May day.
bag: J.Crew [old] | shirt: Banana Republic [exact] | jeans: Gap | belt: American Eagle | flats: gift | necklace: Anthropologie
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