My Mom’s Style | Cup of Jo

This weekend, Anton was sick, so we did lots of calming activities like reading, eating applesauce, and looking through old family photos. As always, I felt inspired by my mom’s style through the years, like these five touches…

1. Button-down shirts under sweaters. The layering combo just looks good on people, maybe because it frames the face? (In this photo, my mom was newly pregnant but didn’t yet know she was having twins.)

2. A broken-in trench. My mom’s is the classic belted kind, but I love this streamlined version and pull it on all the time, including over pajamas when walking the boys to school.

3. Shades of brown. Needless to say, people wear lots of black in New York — the other day, I looked around our neighborhood café and all 14 people in line were dressed in black — but! I love how soft and rich brown feels, especially when layered with other browns. And apparently it’s now cool to mix black and brown, so off we go.

4. Oversized shirts look effortlessly cool…

…especially when the sleeve is rolled all the way up past the elbow.

5. Finally, my eyes filled up when I came across this photo of my beloved grandpa. And how cool was his rollneck sweater? I somehow feel touched that my brown babaà one is somewhat similar to his; we also both loved eating fish, listening to radio news, and watching children play.

Do you have old photos of relatives? What was their style like? I’d love to hear. Always makes my heart swell.

P.S. My mom’s beauty uniform, having babies in Paris, and what it feels like to be a twin.

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