The Two-Jacket

Denim jacket: Bettina Liano; Crop: The Fifth Label; Shorts: Cameo the Label; Necklace: The Scarlet Room; Shoes: Topshop; Kimono: Cameo the Label
Trends come and go, but kimonos are forever.* There's nothing comparable to wearing what is essentially a fancy dressing gown in disguise out on the street - I wore my PJ shorts to university once upon a time and felt like I was the toughest rogue warrior ever. Sitting in my lecture thinking to myself, "you don't even know I wore these to SLEEP LAST NIGHT." I totally pulled a fast one on you, classmates.
I'm a believer in the PJs trend in that I believe in wearing appropriate, non-body drowning shapes, like cut PJ shorts and silk dressing gowns/camisoles. Flannel pants covered in Hello Kitty pictures (who is apparently not a cat?) that have seen better days do not count. That's just throwing an Anchorman, which is only ever acceptable if you drink milk from the bottle on the street in PJs.
I used to have an obsession with vintage silk kimonos - the satin type, the velvet burn-out type - all of the types. This Cameo kimono is a little on the thicker side and feels a bit like a doona transformed into a jacket. Considering New York is an oven right now, donna-jackets aren't in my best interests, but if the fifty people I've asked are anything to go by, I'm going to need all the doona jackets I can physically wear come Winter time. Me and my

cats wearing booties-like coordination in sub-zero temperates is going to be interesting for everyone involved.
*This is at least one of my life mantras.