{"id":3738,"date":"2015-11-27T17:36:54","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T00:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/?p=3738"},"modified":"2015-11-27T17:36:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T00:36:54","slug":"the-engineer-at-anthropologie-who-taught-me-plenty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/27\/the-engineer-at-anthropologie-who-taught-me-plenty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Engineer at Anthropologie Who Taught Me Plenty"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is Julia. She’s a stylist at Anthropologie<\/a>, the wonderful, whimsical store frequented mostly by younger women, although lucky are the older among us who show up for bargains and get so much more.<\/p>\n

I was there today, my husband safely on the boyfriend couch as I poked around,\u00a0\u00a0found a ton of stuff and made my way to the fitting room. \u00a0Among the crowd and line of shoppers waiting their turn\u00a0was this woman, headset on, jaunty scarf around her neck. \u00a0I must have looked as overwhelmed by my choices as I felt because she just plain took charge. \u00a0Showed me why my sleeves couldn’t\u00a0be full length, which things should be tucked in and which should be left out. \u00a0My favorite lesson: \u00a0“Don’t hide your hips. \u00a0They’re good.” \u00a0Miraculous advice for someone who, for at least a decade, wore size 14 jeans. (Not anymore….) \u00a0I so wish I’d met her years ago; she taught me how to make\u00a0\u00a0simple choices that looked great in ways I would loved to have mastered long ago.<\/p>\n

Julia herself was fabulous. \u00a0Her mother was stylist for Lucille Ball<\/a>, beloved star of \u00a0the long-running 50’s sitcom I Love Lucy.<\/a>\u00a0 Avoiding her shadow, Julia became an engineer, rising high in the executive suites of Hughes Electronics. \u00a0When she retired, she surrendered to the natural gifts and\u00a0love of style that she had indeed inherited from\u00a0her mom and went to work as a stylist herself. \u00a0“I’m having a blast.” she told me.<\/p>\n

This, one of my last NABLOPOMO posts, is a thank you note to her for the fun I had and the things I learned through her generous guidance. \u00a0I have some great new stuff, too.<\/p>\n

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This is Julia. She’s a stylist at Anthropologie, the wonderful, whimsical store frequented mostly by younger women, although lucky are the older among us who show up for bargains and get so much more. I was there today, my husband safely on the boyfriend couch as I poked around,\u00a0\u00a0found a ton of stuff and made … Continue reading The Engineer at Anthropologie Who Taught Me Plenty<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,6,1917,60,29],"tags":[3609,3603,3602,3600,3605,3606,3607,3608,3601,1888,3604],"class_list":["post-3738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-boom","category-culture","category-nablopomo","category-science","category-women","tag-nablapomo","tag-anthropologie","tag-bargains","tag-black-friday","tag-clothes","tag-engineer","tag-nablopo","tag-o","tag-sales","tag-shopping","tag-stylist"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-Yi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3738"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3744,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions\/3744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}