Dear Fashion — A Letter to the Carrot Just Out of Reach

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**Note from Team Rodeo**

A love letter to fashion — the chase, the chaos, and the carrot that’s always just out of reach. This week’s creator spotlight dives into the obsession we all share: dressing up for the life we’re still figuring out @TayaBreda. ✨

xx,

team rodeo

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Fashion. It’s the topic that rarely strays from a 24 year old woman’s mind.

Let’s take a step back. It rarely strays from any woman’s mind, at least not for long. I can’t be the only one that instead of rolling over to say good morning to her boyfriend, immediately opens her phone to check what is under Revolve’s “New Today” page or to check what has been posted on the Business of Fashion Instagram. For a topic that is so often thought about, it has always felt fleeting in every possible way. It starts at a young age. Your first day of middle school, maybe. The stress, anxiety, and discomfort of growing up hits at some point and for some reason many girls think to themselves

“Hmmm... the perfect outfit will fix this!”. The instinct to fix the unease with the perfect outfit doesn’t fade, it just changes uniforms – fast forward to the corporate world. By now it is just a habit to think that the outcome depends on the outfit. Putting all of your knowledge you’ve acquired from the past 4+ years to the test is definitely fully reliant on you finding the perfect black kitten heel for your first day. And don’t get me started on the trends. You’re telling me my Sperry boat shoes my mom finally convinced me to donate last summer are coming back? The trends are impossible to keep up with as the speed and cost of fashion increases and circles back around. Let’s isolate a specific trend. The capsule wardrobe. While it seems like a great idea in theory, I personally battle with it because it could take away the creativity and fun out of fashion. Most of the capsule wardrobes I see definitely don’t have the beautiful, fun chocolate brown fur coat my roommate just bought from Zara. It also isn’t as easy as people think. There’s that dangling carrot again.

Building a capsule wardrobe can cost hundreds of dollars if you really want quality pieces. It makes sense why no one my age is buying houses...Trends aside, the thought of trying to pursue my dream and start a career within the fashion world is daunting. As someone who has always been considered more analytical, good with numbers, detail oriented, etc. shopping and fashion have proved to be my favorite outlet. Years later, as I find myself in a public accounting job (yuck), and I wonder every day why I never had the guts to go for what I was truly interested in. Maybe it’s because every job offer I see is in NYC, LA, or somewhere called Cerritos, CA (@Revolve please come to Dallas I’m begging).Or maybe it is because it feels impossible to break into the countless tiers of cake that I picture when I think about working in the fashion industry. For now, the carrot continues to be out of reach. While I wait patiently for the right opportunity to come along, I spend my time on apps like Rodeo, Pinterest, and Locker, where I daydream about how to take a bite of the dream that is right in front of me.