Indroducing Contributing Writer/Poster/Dresser-upper, Sarah Smith

Friends, readers, stalkers: I have some beyond exciting news. My dear friend Sarah Smith is joining The Wilder Things as a contributor (!!!!)! Sarah hails from Delaware, went to boarding school at Phillips Academy, and from there to Georgetown University. She's been a New Yorker for the past five years and worked at Vanity Fair before moving to Departures Magazine. Since leaving Departures she has been freelancing for magazines and designers such as Phillip Lim.

Sarah lives and thrives in the concrete jungle with her boyfriend and her Puerto Rican rescue dog Emma (or Erma, or Buddy Erms, or Irms), is as obsessed with beautiful things as I am, and is better at dressing herself (her shirts are always on right-side-out). She has impeccable taste and a wicked sense of humor.

You could go so far as to say we're a match made in blogging heaven.

Without further ado, I present to you Sarah's first post!

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I went to the "5 Fashion Designers: 50 Photographs" event thrown by the CFDA and the New York Times at Bloomingdale's on Wednesday night.  Unless it's a special occasion, I'm not really a dress-up kind of girl.  I hardly ever wear skirts or dresses, and my loving boyfriend calls me the Jean Queen.  But I am a firm believer that casual does not equal unimaginative or ordinary. 

I'm wearing some pretty basic stuff here (jeans, a suede blazer that was my grandmother's) but the little things make the difference. 

My new Jeffrey Campbell boots that mom picked out:

I'm into them. Big time. And I'm not normally a fan of cutesy prints, but I kind of adore this shirt from South Moon Under. 

People ask me all the time where I got the faux-fur scarf.  I cringe a little bit to admit it... but it's from Forever21, and I got it two years ago, and I love it.  Ok, it's out in the open now.  Glad I got that off my chest.

Oh, and Emma says hello: