If You're Going Downtown

Today, I headed over to Taft to have coffee with Trizha and talk about life and upcoming projects. She's agreed to illustrate Sugar, Spell It Out for me and so I'm super excited for that. One of the things I love about Metro Manila in the morning is that if you take an Ordinary Fare (non-airconditioned) bus, it passes through the Skyway and when you look out the window you can see everything below you and it almost feels like you're flying. However, when going downtown (figuratively--literally, it would be more like northwesttown), especially via bus,  you definitely have to put in a little more effort to dress street-smart. So, yeah. 

Today I'm wearing one of my favorite tops from the store tucked into high-waist jeans. I've really been into this sleeker, less frilly look lately and I think it definitely did well for today. :)

Wore: jeans | Freego, top | WinaWonders Store, shoes | WAGW, bag | Giorgio Armani

 I realize what the implications of owning an Armani bag might be and well, let me clarify that this has come into my possession because my dad has a leather bag collection that he's been building up for 30 years and he recently decided to let this one go because one of the buckles on the bottom broke off (as you can see below). He was thinking of just keeping it for sentimental value, but I asked for it instead because I love the way leather smells and I kinda like that it's a bit broken. I have a thing for things that are kinda old and a little worn out. So yeah. It really meant a lot to me for my dad to give this to me. :)