Details: Howard Two Way Top

I'm so excited to finally share this piece. I've had it for a while--I got it as a trade when I helped style the lookbook for a beautiful label called Howard(x). I've worn it quite a bit, but I hadn't gotten around to photographing it until now. So lemme tell you why it's amazing: it can be worn as a gorgeous, minimal long-sleeved top with a beautiful low back OR as a cool, drapey halter-neck tank top. It's seriously thrilling to have such a well-made piece that I can wear on the hottest days of summer and on brisk winter days. I am working on acquiring more pieces like this--I want to build a wardrobe of easy-but-interesting clothing and of course just weird amazing pieces I find or make along the way. Just developing personal style goals over here (that probably say something profound about my desires for my life but who cares to think about those things).

This top (especially with nothing under it) looks a little pirate-y to me, as usual. (That's a description I strive for with all my outfits). Hahahaha wait no I just figured out why, and bear with me: it's that part in Dead Man's Chest when Will Turner has his shirt split open to be whipped. You know, because this kind of looks like his sexy undershirts with a split-open back? Wow what a reference point. What I'm trying to say is that this top makes me feel like Orlando Bloom and that is important to me personally hahhaha. 

As a tank top, this piece is a little less 18th-century blacksmith and a little more structured-meets-drapery goddess halter. You can leave the sleeves undone for a cool deconstructed look, but I usually tie them behind my back. I just love it. (lol at how much less-polished my look gets as my hair gets wilder, as per usual.)

Top -- Howard (x)

Trousers -- Topshop