No one talks about how transitory spring is ~ or how your 20’s are, for that matter. And it’s not just as simple as moving from 7 apartments 7 times, leaving behind cities or even as simple as unlayering leather jackets and easing into tank tops.
It’s the $300 you’ll spend on ikea furnitures every time, but how no amount of money spent on decorations will make you feel like your home until finally you get to one airy apartment and life feels like it could count again.
It’s the intense anger you feel when the new transportation system feels inadequate and confusing and once you do figure it out it’s only time for you to leave again.
It’s having to find a place that serves your favorite wine. It’s fun but also exhausting because we tell ourselves we want a life of adventure but usually we just need a glass of red. And you won’t have your best friends to search it with you even though you’ll text them ( and there will be so many, but so few who feel real) when you find it.
You’ll keep your area code from ” home ” because changing it feels too committed and what if this place fails you, your resume file will see too many changes to the address line. It’ll seem like you finally landed the dream job but then maybe there will never be ink in the printer and the office will have good coffee but maybe never enough filters.
Seasons and your 20’s alike are tough transitions. Tanks look easy enough to wear but it’s never easy tucking away your favorite leather jacket or fur coat, slowly wearing your own skin.
Easing into tees before the last step, Street People Atelier has eased the journey ~ both for the season and perhaps just being in my 20’s. They’ve been with me through meetings, and roadtrips and awkward dates and shared cups of coffee over endless conversations and those days where I hunt for the best red in town.
Everyone else around you will seem so put together, but in reality it’s all a perception. Your 20’s, just like the week where the weather is unsure of what it wants to be, aren’t suppose to be easy. And like your area code, hold on to what keeps you grounded while you hustle. Your 20’s, like Spring, is your beginning, your time. Transition in Street People Atelier Tees.
Jeanne wears [ City Sole Tee, Light the night Tee, Sambla, Sorry I’m from New York Tee]
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Photographed by Lai Frances for Street People Atelier.