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I’m excited to get back to sharing daily outfit ideas after a few weeks home sick! From polling you guys on IG, it seems that many of your formerly business casual offices have now adopted “smart casual” or “dress for your day” dress codes. There’s varying guidelines on what smart casual means, but generally speaking, the key to smart casual is finding a balance between your more tailored pieces and your casual pieces. My go-to formula is usually pairing 1 traditional workwear item (i.e. trousers, jeans, button-down shirt, blazer) with a casual piece. Denim is a great base, but I’d...

I’m excited to get back to sharing daily outfit ideas after a few weeks home sick! From polling you guys on IG, it seems that many of your formerly business casual offices have now adopted “smart casual” or “dress for your day” dress codes. There’s varying guidelines on what smart casual means, but generally speaking, the key to smart casual is finding a balance between your more tailored pieces and your casual pieces. My go-to formula is usually pairing 1 traditional workwear item (i.e. trousers, jeans, button-down shirt, blazer) with a casual piece. Denim is a great base, but I’d...

A driver discovered their car stolen only to see it drive by a little later in Oak Bay on June 4. Oak Bay police were called after someone waiting for the Tea Party parade to start went back to their vehicle parked on Bee Street and discovered it missing. A short time later, the driver spotted two people in their Toyota Corolla driving past on Hampshire Road. The owner reported two females in the vehicle and alerted police to the direction of travel; however, the vehicle was not located. The car is a grey, four dour Corolla with B.C. licence...

A driver discovered their car stolen only to see it drive by a little later in Oak Bay on June 4. Oak Bay police were called after someone waiting for the Tea Party parade to start went back to their vehicle parked on Bee Street and discovered it missing. A short time later, the driver spotted two people in their Toyota Corolla driving past on Hampshire Road. The owner reported two females in the vehicle and alerted police to the direction of travel; however, the vehicle was not located. The car is a grey, four dour Corolla with B.C. licence...

There was something about having a baby at twenty that made me wake up from childhood with an abruptness none of my friends experienced. It was like having a cold glass of water thrown in my face. I was all alone, with no help from my family or the father’s family. I had to figure out how to support myself and the little baby I had named Arizona. I did not want to be on welfare like the rest of my family was, because then I would be a third-generation welfare case. If you grow up on welfare, you know...