Easy does it
We may enjoy trashing track suit-wearing Eva Longoria or leggings savant Lindsay Lohan, but, in a world where celebrities are dressed-up 24/7 as though they were on some perennial fashion show (which, guessing from the way tabloids follow them, they sort of are), these don’t-give-a-crap celebs are worthy of our admiration.
Because, at the end of the day, they’d rather run their errands in a pair of flats and a hoodie than totter precariously over bags of groceries in a pair of platforms like, say, Victoria Beckham whose every step seems to be assisted by four-inch heels. Not that we would ever catch Beckham at the supermarket cashier, with a jar of mayo and a tube of toothpaste, waiting patiently in line.
Just because sartorialists wax rhapsodic about the minutiae of the ultimate LBD doesn’t mean that dressing down in itself isn’t a luxury. Denying your feet the pain of toe-pinching, high-heeled pumps that leave them covered in blisters in itself is a sort of reward. When you’re comfortable enough not to have to squeeze yourself into jeans so tight they leave little room for breathing, much less a granola bar, you’ve reached a zen state people in the self-help biz like to call “inner peace.” Sometimes we like to call it “being-too-fricking-lazy-to-go-through-the-closet-one-more-time.” Potato, potahto.
We’ve come up with a few easy looks reminiscent of our fave celebs’ dressing habits on their down time. Check out the short shorts, the drainpipes with tank tops, the ever-ubiquitous scarf. For footwear, flats like Sanuk’s comfy Sidewalk Surfers, sandals with a shoe top (so it feels like you’re walking in light-as-air flip-flops), are one of the easiest ways to loaf without looking like a loafer.
Perhaps mastering the secret of the casual look is all in the attitude. Once you realize you don’t care how you look, everything, it seems, just falls into place.
