(original artwork by Jessica Steele)04/ Eleventh Grade wearing pink suede boots
In High School, the Eleventh Grade to be exact, I owned a pair of knee high stretch suede boots in a very striking shade of dusty rose. They had a sharply pointed toe and a high stiletto heel (this was in the original days of Sex and the City after all) and if I had been 25 years old and pounding the pavement of the Big Apple, these shoes would have killed it. However, I was 17 years old and clicking through the halls of my small town school. I cannot begin to tell you how out of place these boots were in that environment. I vividly remember one particular classmate (who shall go unnamed) telling me I looked like a witch in them. I took this as some sort of weird subversive compliment and continued to wear them. And looking back at my sassy little self, I’m glad I did. Because at 17 I may not have known much, but I sure as hell knew you can’t let your surroundings hold back your style.
