Literary Stylings #12: Hippie Days

As promised, the Literary Stylings Link Party is happening (and hopefully happening, if you know what I mean).

For today's look, I wore an outfit inspired by Ian McEwan's Sweet Tooth:

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Well, Ian McEwan's Sweet Tooth and my own dear mother. You see, I got this vest from my mom:

She sent it to me just last weekend, saying she remembers wearing vests like this during her "hippie days." Which, if you know my mom is kind of funny because she'd still totally rock a vest like this. But, instead of keeping if for herself, she sent it to me, because she's awesome like that.

So, what does this have to do with Sweet Tooth? Well, the novel takes place in England in 1972. And while the heroine of the novel, Serene, is not into the counter-culture movement, choosing instead to study "maths" at Cambridge and to later work for MI5. Serene's sister, however, is heavily involved in the counter-culture, choosing to backpack in Morocco in lieu of college. And during a visit to the University of Sussex Serene notes that the students there were much bigger hippies than at Cambridge.

And here you have it, my hippie-inspired outfit, but with 100% less Birkenstocks because I just can't with those:

And now it's your turn, Reader Friends. If you were able to scrape together an outfit in the last possible minute, I'd love it if you linked up below!


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Happy Tuesday, All!

Gracey