are weddings the plebe's fashion week?

source: Columbia Pictures

Floor Time​​

/flôr tīm/
noun

1. the 15-60 minute time period spent laying on the floor in the middle of the work day, typically as a relief from the soul-sucking reality of corporate America. 

I am of a certain age where every weekend, I open my Instagram on Sunday nights and find that everyone from my high school bully to my best friend have a) attended a wedding, b) run a marathon, or c) both. I suspect that making the wedding circuit will be the next 3-4 years of my life, which also means that for the next 3-4 years of my life I will have to a) serve lewks, and b) be poor.¹

Perhaps I’m just vain, but I love fashion, and always have. I will never forget being 13 and attempting to recreate Alex Russo’s looks with cheap knockoffs from Claire’s.² The episode of Lizzie McGuire entitled “Best Dressed for Much Less”³ could be the title of my early memoir. So naturally, as a full-grown adult woman, I continue to want to be Best Dressed at any event, and the natural place for that to happen is at a friend’s wedding.

source: Disney Channel

I very much am in the camp of, if you like it, who cares, just wear it. Famously⁴ I hosted “Can’t Wear It” weeks during Covid, where I created themes for a week of dressing so that our non-athleisure could see the light of day during lockdown (you can see some of those highlights here). But I think people’s overwhelming feeling is that an occasion is needed to wear what we generally think to be occasion dress. And lo and behold: the wedding, an occasion built into the lives of every 20 to 30 something. This is our NYFW, people!!!

I’m not sure there’s a thesis to this Floor Time other than I LOVE seeing everyone’s wedding ‘fits. Keep them comin’. Because I do feel like it’s the friends-and-family version of fashion week and it’s so fun to see everyone serving in your Instagram Stories.

Lastly, I’ll leave you with what I believe is a serve:

Dress is from Abercrombie, obviously, shoes are Marc Fisher, necklace is from the Oculus lmao, and hair and makeup and done by me because I don’t trust anyone else hehe. Andrew’s fit is Suit Supply. Ice cream is Ben & Jerry’s.

An aside: Devoted Floor Time readers will recall that in April, I took a course on brand design & corporate identity. For our final project, we were tasked with preparing a pitch deck for a company (real or fake) and laying out the brand expression for that company. I went with doop⁵, based on a logo I created in week one. The impetus for doop came from watching TikTokers and various celebrities rock fashion pieces I love, but aren’t in the budget—and a broad audience can relate to that. After rolling through the entire course, I decided there was a way to start with a niche, that of wedding attendees. So I put together this proposal. If you nerd out on stuff like this in the same way I do, check out the deck and let me know what you think.

Something I Thought of in the Shower

It’s #PoopGate. It’s been #PoopGate and it will continue to BE #PoopGate.

Something Pretty

I’m celebrating my anniversary this weekend and this was the view I had yesterday afternoon—truly no weekday scaries here. (Also pls look closely at that woman in the super fun suit slaying her photoshoot—obsessed).

Something To Laugh About

Here are this week’s gems:

• I miss this Wes Anderson trend and I just really love this video. This is what social media should be!

• I stg if ConEd sends one more text blast I’m gonna end it all—the audacity of this!!!

• This is live footage of me last week for the Fourth. The hydrangeas just don’t hit the same on the west coast!

• Every so often I’m reminded how many other people in this world love Arrested Development as much as I do and this makes me immensely happy.

• The true main character in this simulation was and always will be the Doof man himself—it also doesn’t get any more brat than this.

• A reminder that it’s been 5 years since this gem of a clock app video dropped.

Something for Clarice

Hey! This newsletter is free and I intend to keep it that way. That said, if you love it and want to show your appreciation, buy me a coffee :)

By the way…I’m reading this.

I finally got off the Libby hold list for Kiley Reid’s Come and Get It. I loved her writing style in Such a Fun Age so I’m excited to dig into her latest release.

And I’m watching this.

This week was frankly a string of menty b’s b2b so I’ve been comfort rewatching How I Met Your Mother, as I always do when the going gets tough.

source: CBS

Have a great weekend! And happy anniversary to my favorite egg 🤍

‘Til next time, best dressed guests. Your friend,

Clarice

1. To all my friends who have gotten married, I promise I LYLAS but also I’ll be eating canned beans for the next 4-5 (hundred) business days.

2. If you can relate to this, honey idk how to to tell you but it’s time for our group retinol sesh.

3. see footnote above

4. narrator: she’s not, in fact, famous

5. doop troupe let me hear ya!!!